Karak (

Pashto Pashto ( , ; , ) is an eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. It has official status in Afghanistan and the Pakistani province of Khyb ...

: کرك, ) is the headquarters of

Karak District Karak District (, ) is a district in Kohat Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It is situated to the south of Kohat District and on the north side of Bannu and Lakki Marwat districts on the main Indus Highway between Peshawar ...

in the

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ; , ; abbr. KP or KPK), formerly known as the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), is a Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Pakistan. Located in the Northern Pakistan, northwestern region of the country, Khyber ...

province of

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. It is 123 km from

Peshawar Peshawar is the capital and List of cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by population, largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district p ...

on the main Indus Highway between Peshawar and

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. It is located at 33°7'12N 71°5'41E. Karak is said to be the single district in Pakistan that is inhabited by only one tribe of

Pashtuns Pashtuns (, , ; ;), also known as Pakhtuns, or Pathans, are an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group primarily residing in southern and eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. They were historically also referred to as Afghan (ethnon ...

— the Khattaks. Karak is a fast-growing city with just over 50,000 people. It is the second-largest city in

Kohat Division Kohat Division is one of the seven divisions in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It consists of five districts: Hangu, Karak, Kohat, Kurram, and Orakzai. The division borders Bannu Division to the south and west, Peshawar Divisio ...

and is the only urbanized area and namesake of

. Karak's population nearly doubled between 1998 and 2017. The dominant language in the city is

, which nearly everybody speaks. The city was first labeled an urban area between the 1972 and 1981 Pakistan censuses. The district HQ is located in this tehsil. It is one of the most deprived tehsil of the district. Education institutions, health facilities, public health and works departments done very less. In the past 10-15 years very less development works are done by the district government. Most of its population is rural. Facilities like electricity, gas, water health and education are non-existent. Recently a road is under construction from Sabirabad to wargha Banda (one of the furthest village) but if one see the construction work its poor.

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