Angakiri is a small village situated about 4 kilometers from Vehari District on

Hasilpur Hasilpur ( Punjabi and ur, ), is a city in Hasilpur Tehsil of Bahawalpur District in southern Punjab, Pakistan. The city is located between the Satluj River and the Indian border and lies east of the district Bahawalpur Bahawalpur () is a ...

road which is also known as Ludden road. Its name Angakiri is due to the name of a village situated in India. People migrated from that village at the time of partition in 1947 to Pakistan inhabited that town so named Angakiri. Population is about 1000 people.

Name origin

Angakiri is atypical word of Punjabi its meaning is as follows: ''Anga'' means red or naked, and ''Kiri'' means Ant,

insect Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body ( head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs ...

, a special species of ant with red head. This name is related to some old folks in which this

ant Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of 22 ...

brought gold from under ground in that village of angakiri. the true and complete story is unknown.

Area

Residential and small town also agricultural. Also have some plant farms as well some of them includ
Haji Arshad's Plant farm
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Ch. Mudassar's Plant farm
Villages in Vehari District {{Vehari-geo-stub