Khairkot (), also known as Zarghun Shar (), Zarghun Shahr (),, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency or Katawaz, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (), 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.Paktika Province Tribal Map (Page 11). Naval Postgraduate School.
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.
See also Paktika Province
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