Hazro (
Punjabi, ur, ) is a town located at north-west of
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 ...
in
Hazro Tehsil Hazro Tehsil is a tehsil of Attock District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan about 85km away from Islamabad and 7km from GT road. Hazro City is also connected to Islamabad motorway through Chach Interchange. Hazro City is a trading hub for appro ...
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
Punjab Province Punjab Province may refer to:
* Punjab Province (British India), a former province of British India from 1849 to 1947
In Pakistan
* Punjab, Pakistan, a province in Pakistan from 1970 onward
* West Punjab, a province of Pakistan from 1947 to 195 ...
of
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 ...
.
It is located approximately halfway between
Peshawar
Peshawar (; ps, پېښور ; hnd, ; ; ur, ) is the sixth most populous city in Pakistan, with a population of over 2.3 million. It is situated in the north-west of the country, close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is ...
and
Islamabad
Islamabad (; ur, , ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's ninth-most populous city, with a population of over 1.2 million people, and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capita ...
, the federal capital. This town is the capital of
Hazro Tehsil Hazro Tehsil is a tehsil of Attock District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan about 85km away from Islamabad and 7km from GT road. Hazro City is also connected to Islamabad motorway through Chach Interchange. Hazro City is a trading hub for appro ...
, an administrative subdivision of the district, and the central marketplace of the
Chach Valley
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 ...
, consisting of 84 villages located along the
Indus River
The Indus ( ) is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia. The river rises in mountain springs northeast of Mount Kailash in Western Tibet, flows northwest through the disputed region of Kash ...
.
2nd connectivity through M1 (Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway) is at Chach Interchange (چھچھ انٹرچینج), Which is the main entry to the town if coming from Islamabad or Peshawar.
History
Indo–Scythians
Liaka Kusulaka
Liaka Kusulaka (Greek: , on his coins; Prakrit: Liaka Kusulaka or , , on the Taxila copper plate) was an Indo-Scythian satrap of the area of Chukhsa in the northwestern South Asia during the 1st century BCE.
Name
Liaka Kusulaka name is record ...
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.
Early Muslim Rule
According to the Gazetteer of
Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi ( or ; Urdu, ) is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad, and third largest in Punjab after Lahore and Faisalabad. Rawalpindi is next to Pakistan's ...
, Hazro was the battlefield of the
Battle of Chach
The Battle of Chach or Battle of Chaach was fought in 1008 AD between the Ghaznavid army of Mahmud of Ghazni and the Hindu Shahi army of Anandapala, near Hazro, resulting in the latter's defeat. This left the north Indian region vulnerable to ...
in which, in AD 1008,
Ghaznavid
The Ghaznavid dynasty ( fa, غزنویان ''Ġaznaviyān'') was a culturally Persianate, Sunni Muslim dynasty of Turkic ''mamluk'' origin, ruling, at its greatest extent, large parts of Persia, Khorasan, much of Transoxiana and the northwest ...
Sultan
Mahmud Ghaznavi
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 the ...
defeated the united forces of the
Hindu Shahi
The Hindu Shahis (also known as Odi Shahis, Uḍi Śāhis, or Brahman Shahis, 822–1026 CE) were a dynasty that held sway over the Kabul Valley, Gandhara and western Punjab during the early medieval period in the Indian subcontinent. Details r ...
ruler
Anandapala
The Hindu Shahis (also known as Odi Shahis, Uḍi Śāhis, or Brahman Shahis, 822–1026 CE) were a dynasty that held sway over the Kabul Valley, Gandhara and western Punjab during the early medieval period in the Indian subcontinent. Details r ...
with a slaughter of 20,000 men.
[Gazetteer of the Rawalpindi district 1893-94 published by Sang-E-Meel Publications and Page 259]
British Raj
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;
*
* it is also called Crown rule in India,
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*
*
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or Direct rule in India,
* Quote: "Mill, who was himsel ...
the town of Hazro became part of
Attock Tehsil
Attock Tehsil (in Punjabi and ur, تحصیل اٹک) is one of the six tehsils of Attock District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan. The Indus River bounds it on the north-west, dividing it from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, while the Haro River fl ...
; the municipality of Attock which was created in 1867 and the
North-Western Railway connected the town to Lawrencepur. By the 20th century the town was surrounded by rich cultivation, and had a flourishing trade, chiefly in
tobacco
Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus '' Nicotiana'' of the family Solanaceae, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants. More than 70 species of tobacco are known, but the ch ...
and
sugar. The population according to the 1901 census of India was 9,799.
Notable people
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Yasir Ali
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Zubair Ali Zai
References
{{Attock District
Cities and towns in Attock District