Khurram Valley in Pakistan

 KHURRAM VALLEY: The name Kurram comes from the river Kurram (क्रुमू or Krumu in Rgvedic Sanskrit), which flows along the valley. In the north it is surrounded by snow-covered or "white" mountains, the Safed Koh, locally known in Pashto as Speen Ghar, which also forms the natural border with Afghanistan.
Kurram Agency is located in the FATA and its major tribes are Turi, Para-Chamkani, Bangash, Zazai (Jaji), Alisherzai, Alizai, Mangal, Muqbal and Masozai.

In Lower Kurram Agency, Sadda is a scenic place where tribes such as the [BANGASH tribe] reside and Sadda has natural richness depended upon hills and mountain with ever green forests and fields for growing crops like rice and wheat etc. The Kurram River drains the southern flanks of the Safed Koh mountain range, and enters theIndus plains north of Bannu. It flows west to east and crosses the Paktia Province-Pakistan border at Coordinates: 33°49′N 69°58′E

about 80 km southwest of Jalalabad, and joins the Indus near Isa Khel after a course of more than 320 km (200 mi). The district has an area of 3,310 km² (1,280 sq mi); the population according to the 1998 census was 448,310. It lies between the Miranzai Valley. It is inhabited by the Bangash and Mangal tribes.