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Barshore
Barshore, Pashto (برښور), in Urdu (برشور) is a Tehsil (sub-divisions) of Karezat District in Pakistan. Previously, It was a tehsil of Pashin district but in 2022, Karezat and Barshore tehsils separated from Pashin district and become a part of newly created Karezat District. Extending over 1700 square kilometers, the general character of the sub-division is mountainous, the mountains being intersected by long, narrow valleys. At the northern end of the sub-division the great plateau of Toba Kakar Range drains northward to the Kadanai river in Afghanistan. Etymology There are various speculations about the origin of the name 'Barshore', but the most popular among those is that it got its name when this thickly populated town was completely abandoned owing to drought and severe famine in early 13th century. Thus the name, Baar-shaar (Pashto بار ښار), meaning once abandoned town, originated, and with time the name underwent distortions and became the modifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karezat District
Karezat , is a district in the Balochistan province of Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar .... In 2022, it was separated from Pashin District. Karezat's headquarters are at Khanozai Bazar. The name Karezat is a modernized form of ‘Karezes’. The largest city is Khanozai Bazar. Administrations * Karezat Tehsil * Barshore Tehsil References {{coord missing, Pakistan Districts of Balochistan, Pakistan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pishin District
Pishin ( bal, پشین, ps, پښين, ur, ), IPA: pʂin/pçin, is a district in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. In 1975 it was separated from Quetta District, while in 1994 part of it was split off to form the new district of Killa Abdullah. The name Pishin is a modernized form of ‘Pushang’, which is how the city was designated in (mainly pre-modern) Persian sources (Arabic sources using 'Fushang'). Myth attributes the origin of the Persian designation to a son of the mythical Emperor Afrasiab. Fushing was the spelling used in the records of the Afghan government. The population of Pishin District was estimated to be over 300,000 in 2005. Demographics At the time of the 2017 census the district had a population of 736,903, of which 380,615 were males and 356,227 females. Rural population was 594,107 (80.62%) while the urban population was 142,796 (19.38%). The literacy rate was 52.97% - the male literacy rate was 69.00% while the female literacy rate was 36.22%. 99 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pashto
Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani (). Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan alongside Dari,Constitution of Afghanistan ''Chapter 1 The State, Article 16 (Languages) and Article 20 (Anthem)''/ref> and it is the second-largest provincial language of Pakistan, spoken mainly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the northern districts of Balochistan. Likewise, it is the primary language of the Pashtun diaspora around the world. The total number of Pashto-speakers is at least 40 million, (40 million) although some estimates place it as high as 60 million. Pashto is "one of the primary markers of ethnic identity" amongst Pashtuns. Geographic distribution A national language of Afghanistan, Pashto is primarily spoken in the east, south, and southwest, but also in some northern and western parts of the country. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tehsil
A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administrative centre, with possible additional towns, and usually a number of villages. The terms in India have replaced earlier terms, such as '' pargana'' (''pergunnah'') and ''thana''. In Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, a newer unit called mandal (circle) has come to replace the system of tehsils. It is generally smaller than a tehsil, and is meant for facilitating local self-government in the panchayat system. In West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, community development blocks are the empowered grassroots administrative unit, replacing tehsils. As an entity of local government, the tehsil office (panchayat samiti) exercises certain fiscal and administrative power over the villages and municipalities within its jurisdiction. It is the ultimate execu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's Islam by country#Countries, second-largest Muslim population just behind Indonesia. Pakistan is the List of countries and dependencies by area, 33rd-largest country in the world by area and 2nd largest in South Asia, spanning . It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by India to India–Pakistan border, the east, Afghanistan to Durand Line, the west, Iran to Iran–Pakistan border, the southwest, and China to China–Pakistan border, the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the north, and also shares a maritime border with Oman. Islamabad is the nation's capital, while Karachi is its largest city and fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karezat
Karezat is a large tehsil of Karezat District. Karezat is in the north east of Pishin, Pakistan. In Karezat, the largest city is Khanozai Bazar. Karezat is a tehsil and sub-division of the Karezat District of Balochistan Province, Pakistan. The name Karezat refers to the karezes, underground channels with vertical access shafts, used to transport water from an aquifer An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing, permeable rock, rock fractures, or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt). Groundwater from aquifers can be extracted using a water well. Aquifers vary greatly in their characterist ... under a hill, in the villages of the tehsil. Only Two karezes remains in the village Khushab, and the other is in Village Newkarez Murgha, all are no longer usable, due to drought. It comprises many large villages which have large populations of the Kakar tribe; residents' livelihoods are based on agriculture. In early times, farms were irrigated by the karezes, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toba Kakar Range
The Toba Kakar or Toba Kakari ( ps, توبه کاکړۍ; ur, توبہ کاکڑ) are a southern offshoot of the Sulaiman Mountains in the Balochistan province of Pakistan, extending into the Kandahar and Zabul provinces of Afghanistan. The historical route through the mountains is known as the Bolan Pass. The mountains originally received media attention in August 1979; when evidence emerged that Pakistan may be using them as a potential workspace towards development of nuclear weapons. It was an occasional hideout for the Taliban during the Afghanistan conflict. A western offshoot of the range in Killa Abdullah, Balochistan and Maruf District, Afghanistan is called the Toba Achakzai, where Ahmad Shah Durrani, the founder of Afghanistan, used to pass some of the hot weeks in summer during the last few years of his life. See also * * Mountain ranges of Pakistan Pakistan is home to many mountains above . Five of the world's fourteen mountains taller than ("eight-thousanders" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dori River
The Dori, also called the Lora and Kadanai, is a river of Afghanistan and Pakistan. It runs for from Balochistan in Pakistan through Kandahar Province in Afghanistan, then flows into the Arghandab River. The Dori begins north of the city of Quetta. It is called Lora in its headwaters in Pakistan. The name changes to Kadanai upon its entry into Afghanistan, and the name Dori is given below the town of Spin Baldak. In Afghanistan, Dori first runs westward and soon faces the sandy desert of Rigestan. It then takes a northerly direction and along the desert passes east and northeast past Takht-e Pol, bordering southeast of the Kandahar Valley. Further on, it receives the Arghistan River, then the Tarnak River, some south of the city of Kandahar Kandahar (; Kandahār, , Qandahār) is a List of cities in Afghanistan, city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of . It is Afghanistan's second largest city after Kabul, with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Portion Highlighted In Green Representing Barshore
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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