Turi (Pashtun tribe)

The Turi or Torai are a sub-tribe of the Karlani Pashtun tribe, inhabiting the Kurram Valley, in Kurram Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, with a smaller number living across the Durand line in the Paktia province of Afghanistan. They speak Pashto and are adherents of the Twelver Shia sect of Islam.

Basically the Turis came into prominence by the end of fifteenth century. They use to wander in nomadic fashion between Aryob Valley of Paktia and Kurram valley. Being nomadic, they would seasonally migrate in the winter, cross the Kurram Valley which was back then inhabited by the Bangash, and travel as far as the Indus River. From Nilab, on the bank of Indus River near , turi's appeared to have annually immigrated during the hot weather back to the Kurram Valley. The Mughal Emperor Babur mentions the Turis in Kurram in his diary of 1506.

In the 18th century, the Turi and their cousin tribe Zazi came into quarrel with the Bangash of the Kurram Valley which was then part of Durrani Empire (Kurram came under the British Raj after the Second Anglo-Afghan War of 1879-80). The Turis succeeded to capture the Paywar Pass, Shalozan and Malana, pushed the Bangash of the area southeastwards towards the Miranzai Valley, and eventually the Turis settled in the upper Kurram Valley.

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