Tank (city)
Tank | |
|---|---|
| Country | Pakistan |
| Province | Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
| Number of towns | 1 |
| Number of Union Councils | 16 |
Tank or Tonk (Urdu: ٹانک), is the capital city of Tank District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The city is located near Waziristan.[1]
Language
Saraiki (A Punjabi Variant) is mainly spoken in Tank which is also spoken in neighboring D.I.Khan district. Tank also has few people speaking Pashto. The vast majority of people are conversant in Urdu. English is understood by the educated.[2]
Location
It is located at 32º13' N. and 70º32' E[3] and is situated to the north-west of the Indus River and close to the Takht-i-Sulaiman Range.
Localities
The city was previously situated inside a fort. Here Sir Henry Durand, lieutenant-governor of the Punjab, was killed in 1870 when passing on an elephant under a gateway.[4]
Tank was the terminus railway station of Tank-Mari Indus Narrow gauge (762 mm or 2 ft 6 in) railway line. This railway line was closed in 1991.
See also
- Federally Administered Tribal Areas
- The Indus River
- Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
- The Pushtun people
- Lord Curzon
Notes
- ^ JUI-F facing tough competition in NA-25 - Daily Times Pakistan
- ^ Rohi – Rohi TV, Rohi Saraiki TV, Rohi TV Punjab, Rohi Multan. Bolytv.com. Retrieved on 2012-06-01.
- ^ Tank Town - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 23, p. 245.
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
References
- Durand Line re-demarcation
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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