Hameed () is a village in the Chach Valley of

Hazro Tehsil Hazro Tehsil is a Subdivisions of Pakistan, tehsil of Attock District in the Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab Province of Pakistan about 85km away from Islamabad and 7km from GT road. Hazro, Punjab, Hazro City is also connected to Islamabad motorway throug ...

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 ...

of Punjab 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 ...

History

Liaka Kusulaka was an

Indo-Scythian Indo-Scythians (also called Indo-Sakas) were a group of nomadic Iranian peoples of Scythian origin who migrated from Central Asia southward into modern day Pakistan and Northwestern India from the middle of the 2nd century BCE to the 4th centur ...

satrap of the area of Chukhsa (Chach) during the 1st century BCE. The Battle of Chach was fought in 1008 AD between the Ghaznavid army of Sultan

Mahmud of Ghazni Yamīn-ud-Dawla Abul-Qāṣim Maḥmūd ibn Sebüktegīn ( fa, ; 2 November 971 – 30 April 1030), usually known as Mahmud of Ghazni or Mahmud Ghaznavi ( fa, ), was the founder of the Turkic Ghaznavid dynasty, ruling from 998 to 1030. At th ...

and the

Hindu Shahi The Hindu Shahis (also known as Oddiyana, Odi Shahis, Uḍi Śāhis, or Brahman Shahis, 822–1026 CE) were a dynasty that held sway over the Kabul Valley, Gandhara and western Punjab region, Punjab during the early medieval period in the Indian ...

army of Anandapala, resulting in the latter's defeat.

Geography

Hameed is located in western

Chhachh Chhachh or Chach (Hindko and ur, چھچھ ) is a region located between Peshawar and Islamabad at the northern tip of Attock, consisting of an alluvial plain extending from Attock District of Punjab, Pakistan, southwest of Topi and Swabi. It i ...

,Chach (Chhachch) - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 10, p. 115
/ref> about 4 km from the city of Hazro.Gazetteer of the Rawalpindi district 1893-94 published by Sang-E-Meel Publications and Page 259 Hameed has its own union council, which also governs other surrounding villages.

References

{{Attock District Villages in Attock District