Dera Ghazi Khan Division is an administrative
division of the
Punjab
Punjab (; Punjabi Language, Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also Romanization, romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the I ...
Province,
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 24 ...
. The reforms of 2000 abolished the third tier of government but division system was restored again in 2008.
Districts
It contains the following districts:
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Dera Ghazi Khan District
Dera Ghazi Khan (Urdu and pnb, , Saraiki: , bal, ڈیرہ غازی خان) is a district in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Its capital is the town of Dera Ghazi Khan. Most of its inhabitants are Saraikis and Baloch.
The district lies t ...
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Layyah District
Layyah District ( skr, , urd, ), is a district in the Punjab, Pakistan. It is located in the southern part of the province. Layyah City is the district headquarter of Layyah District. Layyah has hot desert climate.
The main languages spoke ...
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Muzaffargarh District
Muzaffargarh District ( ur, ) is a district of the Punjab province of Pakistan. Its capital is Muzaffargarh city. It lies on the bank of the Chenab River.
Administration
The district is administratively divided into the following three te ...
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Rajanpur District
Rajanpur ( ur, ) is a district of the Pakistani province of Punjab, with its administrative headquarters the city of Rajanpur. Lying west of the Indus River, its inhabitants are mostly Saraikis and Baloch. According to the 1998 census, the ...
History
During
British rule
The British Raj (; from Hindi ''rāj'': kingdom, realm, state, or empire) was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent;
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or Direct rule in India,
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, All the districts that later formed Dera Ghazi Khan Division, collectively formed a district of
Multan Division
Multan Division is an administrative division of Punjab Province, Pakistan. The reforms of 2000 abolished the third tier of government but the division system was restored again in 2008.
Districts
It consists of the following districts:
Histo ...
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Dera Ghāzi Khān District Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 11, p. 248.
/ref> After independence, Dera Ghazi Khan was made into a division in its own right. It was abolished in 2000 but restored in 2008.
Demographics
According to 2017 census,DG Khan divison had a population of 11,021,214, which includes 5,627,413 males and 5,392,956females.
DG Khan Divison constitutes 2,298 Hindus, 10,994,261 Muslims, 17,738 Christians,5,778 Ahmadi followed by 678 scheduled castes and 461 others.
See also
* Dera Ghazi Khan
Dera Ghazi Khan (), abbreviated as D.G. Khan, is a city in the southwestern part of Punjab, Pakistan. It is the 19th largest city of Pakistan by population. Lying west of the Indus River, it is the headquarters of Dera Ghazi Khan District and ...
* Louis Dane
Sir Louis William Dane (21 March 1856 – 22 February 1946) was an administrator during the time of the British Raj.
Early life
He was born on 21 March 1856 at Chichester, Sussex, the fifth son of Richard Martin Dane, an army staff surgeon, an ...
- In 1876 he was posted to the Punjab as assistant commissioner in Dera Ghazi Khan
* Mustafa Zaidi
Mustafa Zaidi (born Syed Mustafa Hasnain Zaidi; 10 October 1930 – 2 October 1970) was a Pakistani Urdu poet and a civil servant.
Early life
In 1954, he passed the competitive examination and was sent to England for training before being g ...
- served as assistant commissioner of Dera Ghazi Khan
* Andrew Jukes (missionary)
Andrew Jukes (1847 – 28 April 1931) was a Canadian Anglican missionary and doctor. He translated the Four Gospels into the Jatki dialect of Punjabi, as well as producing a prominent bilingual dictionary of the language.
Biography
Jukes was born ...
- He was sent to Baloch mission at Dera Ghazi Khan, where he stayed until 1906
* Robert Groves Sandeman - in 1866 he was appointed district officer of Dera Ghazi Khan
References
Divisions of Pakistan
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