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Waziristan
Waziristan
(, "land of the
Wazir
") is a mountainous region covering the
North Waziristan
and
South Waziristan
agencies,
FR Bannu
, and the western part of
Tank
in northwestern
Pakistan
, and the
Janikhel
,
Gurbuz
and
Barmal
districts of eastern
Afghanistan
. Waziristan covers some . The area is mostly populated by ethnic
Pashtuns
. It is named after the
Wazir
tribe. The language spoken in the valley is
Pashto
, predominantly the
Wazir dialect
. Most of the region forms the southern part of Pakistan's
Federally Administered Tribal Areas
.
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