Bajaur Agency

Publishing Date: Friday, April 1 2005

The area of Bajaur Agency is 590 square miles. It is a hilly area located on the North of Malakand Agency. The approximate population of the agency is 364,000 (Note: Old Statistics).

The main tribes are Utman Khel and Tarkani of which the major sections are Mamund and Salar Zai.

Winston Churchill campaigned here (and in the Mohmand areas) in the last years of the 19th 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 Assistant Political Agent was appointed whose headquarters were outside the agency at Munda, in Dir District.

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