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The area of Bajaur is 590 square miles.
The main tribes are Utman Khel and Tarkani of which the major sections are Mamund
and Salar Zai. Churchill campaigned here (and in the Mohmand areas) in the last years of
the last century and wrote of his adventures in 1898 in The Story of The Malakand Field
Force (1972). It was created as an Agency from a remote subdivision of the Malakand Agency
on 1 December 1973 with Headquarters at Khar. Before 1960 Bajaur was treated as an almost
wholly inaccessible area and it was in that year that an Assistand Political Agent was
appointed whose headquarters, however, were outside an agency at Munda, in Dir District. |
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