Impact of Terrorism on Livelihood of Tribal District Khyber, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Adnan Khan; Adnan Khan; Noman Rasheed

doi:10.54938/ijemd-ss.2026.05.6.874

Authors

Adnan Khan Qurtuba University of Science and Technology Peshawar Campus, Peshawar 25000, Pakistan
Adnan Khan Department of Economics, Government Postgraduate Collage Kohat 26000, Pakistan
Noman Rasheed Department of Economics, Government Postgraduate Collage, Kohat 26000, Pakistan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54938/ijemd-ss.2026.05.6.874

Keywords:

Terrorism, Livelihood, Household income, Multiple regression analysis, Khyber district

Abstract

This paper study analyzed the impact of Terrorism on Livelihood in District Khyber, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan The methodology of this paper is the multiple regression analysis, in which the dependent variable is income and education, the structure of the house and marital status, total number of family size is the independent variable. The researcher has measured livelihood through income. The date has been collected through a structured questionnaire and a simple random sampling technique has been used in the research area. The research area has been divided into three parts Landi Kotal, Jamrud, and Bara. The population in the research area is culturally, socially, and traditionally are same; therefore, the researcher used simple random data collection techniques. Researchers regress the multiple regression and found most of the independent variable significant before terrorism and after terrorism most of the independent variables result are insignificant. The results have been drawn that terrorism has a negative impact on the livelihood of the local people. Terrorism has affected the research area. The results also supported that terrorism has negatively affected the livelihood of the research area. The Tables results show a decrease of 27%, 08%, 16%, and 03% respectively in Income Range Respectively While shows decrease of 08%, 12%, 10% in the income from Natural, Financial and Physical Resources and 39 % increase shows in the income from Others Resources of the Tribal District Khyber, Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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