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Pakistan didn’t wake up one morning to discover Tirah. The valley has always been there—high-altitude, brutal in winter, strategically sensitive, and historically invisible to power corridors. What did surface in late January 2026 was not just snowfall, but a collision of narratives: humanitarian concern, political blame, celebrity call-outs, and institutional defensiveness.
At the center of the storm is Tirah Valley, located in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Khyber District near the Afghan border. Each winter, a significant portion of its population migrates temporarily due to extreme weather. This is not new. What is new is how quickly a seasonal movement was framed as something else—and how aggressively that framing was contested.
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