Attock Tehsil (in Punjabi and ur, تحصیل اٹک) is one of the six
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 administr ...
s of
Attock District
Attock District (Urdu and pnb, ) is a district in Pothohar Plateau of the Punjab Province of Pakistan. Its capital is Attock city.
The district was created in April 1904 by the merging of tehsils of nearby districts. Its former name was C ...
in the
Punjab Province of
Pakistan
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. The
Indus River
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bounds it on the north-west, dividing it from the
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the Administrative units of Pakistan, four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the Geography of Pakistan, ...
, while the
Haro River flows through from east to west.
The north-west corner is occupied by the fertile
Chach Valley. South of this lies a dry sandy plain, beyond which rises the
Kala Chitta Range
Kala Chitta Range (in Punjabi and ur, ''Kālā Chiṭṭā'') is a mountain range in the Attock District of Punjab, Pakistan. Kala- Chitta are Punjabi words meaning Kala the Black and Chitta means the white. The range thrusts eastward acro ...
. The eastern half consists of the tract known as the Nala, which includes, along with a number of low hills and much broken country, a considerable area of fairly good level land, portions of which are irrigated from wells and by cuts from the Haro and other smaller streams.
[Attock Tahsil - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 6, p. 138](_blank)
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The major language spoken in the tehsil is Hindko followed by Pashto.
History
The district according to the Imperial Gazetteer of India:
References
External links
www.attocknews.comwww.attockonians.com
{{Tehsils of Punjab (Pakistan)
Tehsils in Attock District