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900:, Khyber district has 166,805 households and a population of 1,146,267. The district has a sex ratio of 109.18 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 38.45%: 58.08% for males and 17.16% for females. 395,308 (34.5% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age. 94,707 (8.26%) live in urban areas. 3,605 (0.39%) people in the district were religious minorities, mainly Christians.
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in 2001. Due to the absence of a strong government and security network in the area and its rough mountainous terrain, the area became a hotbed of insurgents and over 90 percent of the agency came under their control in 2007. After 2007, the militants began attacking the government and military
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Pakistan Army soldiers. The local Aman Lashkars or peace committees supported the army by fighting the
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