Khairkot District (Pashto: خیرکوټ ولسوالۍ), also known as Katawaz (کټواز) or Zarghun Shar District (Pashto: زرغونښار ولسوالۍ, Dari: ولسوالی زرغونشهر), is a district of Paktika Province, Afghanistan. The district is within the heartland of the Sulaimankhel tribe of Ghilji Pashtuns.[1] The district capital is Khairkot town.
In 1998, the district had an estimated population of over 75,000.[2] However, by June 2004 the post-Taliban government separated off three new districts from the large Khairkot District. The new districts were Janikhel District, Yahyakhel District and Yusufkhel District.[3][4] The district population in 2004 of the reduced district was 38,024.[3]
- ^ Paktika Province Tribal Map (Page 11). Naval Postgraduate School.
- ^ "Estimated Population 1998 (Central Statistics Office)"[permanent dead link] Afghanistan Information Management Service (AIMS)
- ^ a b "Paktika provincial profile", 2004, profile compiled by the National Area-Based Development Programme (NABDP) of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD)
- ^ "Afghanistan Administrative Divisions" map, March 2007, Afghanistan Information Management Service (AIMS)