Barmal District


Barmal District is a district of Paktika Province, Afghanistan, bordering South Waziristan and North Waziristan, two of the districts of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The main town is Angur Ada. Shkin in Gomal District is located just to the west.
Other towns of Barmal District are:
1: New Ada,
2: Mergha Ada
3: Laman Ada
4: Gajikhel Ada
5: Zargar Ada
6: Titoon Shaga
The population of Barmal is Pashtun, predominantly from the Wazir and Kharoti tribes.
According to Syed Saleem Shahzad
writing in the Asia Times Online Barmal lies in an area of particularly rugged terrain:

Security and Politics

A private T.V. station reported that NATO troops killed 23 Taliban insurgents in Barmal District on 18 November 2009.

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