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	Tirah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tirah is a mountainous tract of country in the west-central North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan.
		It is a cul-de-sac in the mountains and the difficulty of its passes and the fierceness of its inhabitants had hitherto preserved it inviolable from all invaders.
		The Mastura Valley occupies the southern half of Tirah, and is inhabited by the Orakzais.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tirah (628 words)

	Tirah :: Khyber.ORG
		The name Tirah is an elastic geographical expression applied to those highlands divided between the Afridi and Orakzai tribes, which lie between the Khyber and the Kurram.
		Tirah lies about midway between the two valleys but it dominates neither for the eastern extremity of the great Sufed Koh range and the upper reaches of the Bara valley shut it off from the Khyber whilst the Samana range hedges it in on the south.
		The highlands to the eastward of this meridional watershed are locally known as Tirah; those to the westward, belonging to the Chamkani, the Masozai, and other tribes, are not usually called Tirah, although in the matter of elevation and general topographical conformation they are very much the same as the eastern uplands.
	www.khyber.org /publications/001-005/tirah.shtml (6159 words)

	Khyber Gateway >> Pictures >> Tirah - Winds of Change
		History remembers Tirah as the place where conspiracies were hatched against the Mughals, Sikhs and the British and also for some of the famous kidnappings.
		Tirah is inhabited by both Afridi and Orakzai tribes.
		The people of Tirah are known to give life for the sake of friendship and for taking life in enmity.
	www.khyber.org /pashtopictures/tirahwindsofchange.shtml (993 words)

	Tirah Campaign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tirah Campaign was an Indian frontier war in 1897-98.
		The Afridis had for sixteen years received a subsidy from the government of British India for the safeguarding of the Khyber Pass, in addition to which the government had maintained for this purpose a local regiment entirely composed of Afridis, who were stationed in the pass.
		The progress of the expedition, along a difficult track through the mountains, was obstinately contested on October 29 at the Sampagha Pass leading to the Mastura valley, and on October 31 at the Arhanga Pass from the Mastura to the Tirah valley.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tirah_Campaign (980 words)

	TIRAH - Online Information article about TIRAH
		half of Tirah, and is inhabited by the Orakzais.
		The chief passes in Tirah are the Sampagha Pass (6500 ft.), separating the Khanki Valley from the Mastura Valley; the Arhanga Pass (699E ft.), separating Mastura Valley from Maidan; See also:
		Saran Sar (865o ft.), leading from the Zakka Khel portion of Maidan into the Bara Valley; the Tseri Kandao (8575 ft.), separating Maidan from the Waran Valley, and the Sapri Pass (5190 ft.), leading from the east of the Mastura Valley into the Bara Valley in the direction of Mamanai.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /THE_TOO/TIRAH.html (917 words)

	32 army men killed by avalanche in Tirah -DAWN - Top Stories; 12 February, 2005
		In the remote Tirah valley, at least 32 army men were killed after being hit by an avalanche, reports reaching from the area said.
		The civilian death toll in the rain and snowfall related accidents rose to 77 in the Frontier province on Friday, forcing the provincial government to reactivate its disaster and flood warning centres in all the 24 districts.
		Sources said a contingent of 64FF wing of the Pakistan army along with the members of the Khyber Rifles was posted at the Kot Mamad and Tirah Kachkol border checkpoints in the Tirah valley.
	www.dawn.com /2005/02/12/top10.htm (1549 words)

	Welcome to TIRAH CUSTOMS AGENCY
		Tirah Customs Agency provides the services of clearance and shipping in airports as well.
		Tirah Customs Agency has been specialized in import of vehicles from other countries.
		Tirah Customs Agency is grateful to all its customers who always provided us with an opportunity to serve them and manifest our skill and experience in the completion of their projects.
	www.freewebs.com /tirahcustomagency/index.htm (1933 words)

	Rabbi Gellman: Fear and the Secret of Life - Newsweek Society - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Without the ability to overcome our fears we would never have cleared the swamps and built the kibbutzim and moshavim and the shnot alpaim, the dream of 2,000 years that is the State of Israel, would have remained just a dream for another shnot alpaim.
		God speaks al tirah to those of us who are well but fear becoming ill. God speaks to those of us who are ill and who fear that they may die of their illness.
		The 23rd Psalm is the hymn to the commandment al tirah.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/9613066/site/newsweek/print/1/displaymode/1098 (1823 words)

	The Tirah campaign of 1897 on India
		The Tirah campaign of 1897 on India's notorious North-West frontier was part of what was known at the time as the "Great Game" between Britain and Russia.
		Pushing into the Tirah the British soon came to a point at Dargai where the enemy was entrenched on on the heights commanding an important mountain pass.
		In 1897 the 1st Battalion was part of the Tirah Expedition to north west India to protect trade routes and suppress local, hostile tribes.
	www.cabarfeidh.com /dargai.htm (2030 words)

	German Activities in the NWFP during war year 1914-1945
		In June 1916 two Turkish emissaries arrived Tirah; one was Khired Bey, a staff colonel of the Turkish army and the other Mohammad Abid (alias Abidin), an Arab, a former employee of the Turks as a drill' instructor at Kabul.
		The 'uneasy feelings' in the tribal areas as a result of the intrigues' of the Turko-German Mission were @further intensified by Mir Mast's activities in the Khyber.
		The former consisted of deserters and discharged soldiers from the Indian army and other pro-Afghan elements, while the latter was composed mainly of Maliks and elders who were in favour of maintaining friendly relations with the British in lieu of their allowances and other emoluments from the British Indian government.
	brain.com.pk /~charsadda/articles/germanarticle.htm (3180 words)

	Tirah Memorial, Oxford
		The so-called Tirah Memorial was designed by Inigo Jones and erected in 1900 to commemorate the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire Light Infantry who died during the 1897–8 campaign on the north-west frontier of India.
		The twenty-five foot high obelisk (made of stone from Monk's Park Quarry, Bath) stands on a base of Doulting stone, and has foundations 20 feet deep, as it is standing in a graveyard.
		The memorial actually covers two separate military campaigns, the Tirah Campaign and the North West Frontier Campaign.
	www.headington.org.uk /oxon/streets/war_memorials/tirah_memorial.htm (207 words)

	16 soldiers rescued, 26 missing in Tirah valley -DAWN - Top Stories; 13 February, 2005
		LANDI KOTAL, Feb 12: The rescue teams of the Pakistan Army rescued 16 soldiers from the snow-covered areas of Tirah valley in the Khyber Agency on Saturday morning, but 26 troops are still missing, officials said.
		Islamabad deployed troops in the Tirah valley area, close to the Afghanistan's famous Tora Bora mountain, after the US and allied forces launched war against Taliban and Al Qaeda suspects in the year 2001.
		According to the local ISPR officials a rescue party comprising 13 armymen and 19 Khyber Rifles jawans, headed by Lt Rehmatullah of the 64FF, were sent help some personnel who were posted at Kot Mamad and Tirah Kachkol checkpoints along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
	www.dawn.com /2005/02/13/top7.htm (281 words)

	TIRAH CAMPAIGN - Online Information article about TIRAH CAMPAIGN
		TIRAH CAMPAIGN - Online Information article about TIRAH CAMPAIGN
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		The progress of the expedition, along a wretched track through the mountains, was obstinately contested on the 29th of October at the Sampagha Pass leading to the Mastura valley, and on the 31st at the Arhanga Pass from the Mastura to the Tirah valley.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /THE_TOO/TIRAH_CAMPAIGN.html (1421 words)

	Seven die in Bara, Tirah clashes -DAWN - Top Stories; August 14, 2006
		Local people claimed that the area’s elders had informed the administration about the gravity of the situation after clashes between the two groups in Tirah on Friday resulted in the killing of three people and injuries to 12 others.
		A Shalobar tribesmen, Shah Wali, was killed and his colleague Mohammad Rasool injured when a hand grenade exploded in a trench in the Warsak area of Tirah valley.
		Meanwhile, tense calm prevailed in Tirah area after a Malikdin Khel jirga effected a ceasefire between the Lashkar-i-Islam and Ansarul Islam on Saturday.
	www.dawn.com /2006/08/14/top9.htm (308 words)

	HENRY PENNELL VC BATTLE
		The following is an extract from a letter received from the Tirah Field Force, written by Captain Shaw, of the Derbyshire Regiment, on the storming of the heights of Dargai, and the involvement of CAPTAIN HENRY PENNELL VC (1899)
		On 20 October the advance into Tirah commenced.
		The actual road up and over the Kotal was a fairly easy one, but is commanded by the heights of Dargai, 2,000 feet above it.
	www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk /stewart/mmpenn03.htm (655 words)

	TIME.com: Inside Tora Bora: The Final Hours? -- Page 2
		In the late 19th century the British established the area around and including the Tirah Valley as a buffer zone between Afghanistan and British India.
		The Pakistani government has never had an official presence there, and many of the tribesmen who rule Tirah are deeply conservative supporters of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden.
		And as alliance forces creep up the mountains and Western special-ops troops take their technology and firepower to each and every cave, bin Laden's choices are getting as narrow as his chances of escaping.
	www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,188521-2,00.html (733 words)

	70 Mangal Bagh accomplices nabbed in Tirah crackdown - Irna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		70 Mangal Bagh accomplices nabbed in Tirah crackdown
		Seventy Lashkar-e-Islami men were arrested when political authorities of the tense Khyber Agency Wednesday launched a fresh crackdown in Gagrina village of the remotest Tirah Valley, the area where the organization's head Mangal Bagh has taken shelter.
		The official informed action would be continuing in Gagrina as well as other parts of Tirah and Landi Kotal against those supporting the Lashkar.
	www.irna.ir /en/news/view/menu-236/0607077151085407.htm (686 words)

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		Also I will be cleaning up my databases and performing backups so the site may be down for a few minutes here and there.
		This is a known issue and is being worked on.
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	www.heheh.net.cob-web.org:8888 /pvppandas (703 words)

	Sir Winston Churchill
		While exploring the Nile, he is involved in the Battle of Omdurman.
		The next year, Winston Churchill attempted to enter into the British House of Commons, but was not elected.
		Also that year, he published a two-volume book called The River War, which was a story of his journey with the Tirah Expeditionary Force.
	www.angelfire.com /ia/totalwar/Churchill.html (1164 words)

	K2climb.net - K2 and Karakorum by climbers, news
		Military authorities have expressed the hope that with the improvement in weather condition bodies of missing soldiers would be recovered.
		The civilian death toll in the snowfall related accidents rose to 77 in the Frontier province on Friday, forcing the provincial government to reactivate its disaster and flood warning centres in all the 24 districts.
		LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency): Two personnel of the Khyber Rifles were killed when they were hit by an avalanche in the Tirah valley near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border about two days ago.
	www.k2climb.net /news.php?id=75 (1687 words)

	Al Qaeda in Pakistan: The 'guests' who stayed on
		New Delhi: Five Arab militants stole into Pakistan through Khyber Agency in the third week of May, blindsiding army troops that have been watching out for Al Qaeda infiltrators in Tirah region since last December.
		The militants trekked up the Susobi Kandao smuggling route to teach the Bazaar town in Tirah.
		They then drove up to Akora Khattak where travel arrangements were finalised for their onward journey to Muzaffarabad in PoK.
	www.jammu-kashmir.com /archives/archives2002/kashmir20020614c.html (1111 words)

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	Four more soldiers rescued from Tirah -DAWN - Top Stories; 14 February, 2005
		Four more soldiers rescued from Tirah -DAWN - Top Stories; 14 February, 2005
		PESHAWAR, Feb 13: A helicopter of army aviation, during a salvage mission on Sunday, rescued all the four remaining soldiers who were stranded at a post established on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border deep inside Tirah valley in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).
		However, 24 out of a team of 30 soldiers, who were hit by an avalanche last Friday, were still missing and could not be traced even on Sunday, the second consecutive day of the rescue operation conducted through a small helicopter, piloted by Lt Col Khalil Dar, in the treacherous Tirah valley.
	www.dawn.com /2005/02/14/top6.htm (177 words)

	Allakhazam's World of Warcraft Character Profiles
		From her corpse recover Krastinov's Bag of Horrors.
		A great weight has been lifted from our hearts, Tirah, but your task is not yet complete.
		Before you may face Kirtonos, however, you must first secure a method in which to summon him.
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