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Khairkot (Pashto: خیرکوټ), also known as Zarghun Shar (زرغون‌ښار), Zarghun Shahr (زرغون‌شهر),[1] or Katawaz[2] (کټواز), is a town in and administrative seat of Khairkot District, Paktika Province, in eastern Afghanistan. The town is located within the heartland of the Sulaimankhel tribe of Ghilji Pashtuns.[3]

Khairkot
خیرکوټ
Katawaz, Zarghun Shar
town
Country Afghanistan
ProvincePaktika Province
DistrictKhairkot
Elevation
2,114 m (6,936 ft)
Time zone+ 4.30
Babur hunting on the plains of Kattavaz
Babur hunting on the plains of Kattavaz

In the 1970s Khairkot was a town of some 5,000 people, but that population decreased during the years of fighting after the Soviet invasion and the Afghan civil war.


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  1. Zarghūn Shahr (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  2. Katāwāz (Variant) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  3. Paktika Province Tribal Map (Page 11). Naval Postgraduate School.


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