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Attock
Area	6,857 km²
Population (1988)  • Density	1,274,935  • 186/km²
Time zone	PST (UTC+5)
Established  • District Nazim  • District Naib Nazim  • District Council  • Number of Tehsils	1904 Maj.(r) Tahir Sadiq Khan Malik Sameen Khan  •   •    • 6
Main language(s)	Punjabi, Hindko,Urdu,Pushto
Website	{{{ATTOCK group}}}

Attock District (Urdu: اٹک) is located in the northwest of the Punjab province of Pakistan. The district was created in 1904 by the merger of Talagang tehsil from the Jhelum District and the Pindigheb, Fatehjang and Attock tehsils from Rawalpindi District of British Raj. The original name was Campbellpure district after Sir Campbell who founded the city of Campbellpure to the southeast of Attock Town. The name of the district was changed to Attock in 1985.

Attock District is bordered by the Haripur and Swabi districts of North-West Frontier Province to the north, the district of Rawalpindi to the east, the district of Chakwal ot the southeast, the district of Mianwali to the southwest, and North-West Frontier Province districts of Kohat and Nowshera to the west and northwest. The river Indus forms the western boundary of the district

Contents 1 Geography and climate 2 Prominent politicians 3 MNA/MPAs 4 Tehsils 5 Famous places & People 6 See also 7 Education

Attock district has a typical north Pakistani climate with very hot summers and very cold winters. The northern part of the district is more humid and has a comparatively moderate climate compared to the southern part of the district. The district possesses mainly hills, plateaus and dissected plains with the river Indus on the northern and western borders of the district. The river Haro from Haripur passes through the north of the tehsil of Attock. The area to the north of the river Haro is a flood plain with fertile soil. The average annual rainfall in the district is 783 mm.

The district had a population of 1,274,935 of which 20.45% were urban in 1998.[1]

Attock city is the district headquarters. The once vibrant Urdu speaking population of this city has declined gradually and now only a few hundred native speakers of Urdu reside here.

Late Sir Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan (First Muslim Governer and Prime Minister of United Punjab),

Late Sir Malik Muhammad Amin Khan of Shamasabad,

Late Sir Sardar Muhammad Nawaz Khan, former Defence Minister,

Late Sardar Shaukat Hayat Khan of Wah (former MLA & MNA and prominent Leader of Muslim League),

Late Sardar Mumtaz Ali Khan Advocate of Wah (former MLA & Minister of West Pakistan),

Late Syed Peer Safiuddin of Makhad (former MNA),

Late Malik Muhammad Akram Khan Bar-at-law of Shamasabad (former MLA),

Late Ahmad Waheed Akhtar Advocate (Former Senator and MNA and a prominent Leader of PPP),

Late Syed Ashiq Kaleem (former Advisor Governer of Punjab and founder Chairman of PPP District Attock),

Late Sardar Muhammad Sadiq Khan of Bahter (former Advisor Chief Minister Punjab and MPA),

Sardar Manzar Ameer Khan of Thatta (current Tehsil Nazim Jand)

Sardar Amir Khan of Thatta (former Vice Chairman District Council Attock)

Late Syed Mir Ahmad Shah advocate (former Advisor Governer of Punjab),

Alhaj Taj Muhammad Khanzada (Promenent Leader of Muslim League and former MNA and MPA),

Qari Saeed-ur-Rehman (Central Leader of JUI and former Provincial Minister of Punjab),

Sheikh Aftab Ahmad (former State Minister of Pakistan and a leader of Muslim League Nawaz),

Malik Hakmeen Khan (former Provincial Minister, Senator and a famous Central leader of PPP),

Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan (Former Provincial Minister and MPA, and a Leader of PPP),

Malik Muhammad Aslam Khan of Shamasabad (former Provincial Minister & MNA),

Malik Lal Khan of Kamrial (former MNA and Leader of Muslim League Nawaz Group),

Malik Ameer Muhammad Khan of Pindigheb(former MNA and a leader of PPP),

Malik Atta Muhammad Khan of Kotfateh Khan (Former MPA),

Malik Atta Muhammad Khan of Khunda (former Chairman District Council Attock),

Malik Muhammad Asif Khan (former MPA from Fatehjang and a leader of Muslim League Nawaz Group)

MNAs

NA57 Attock-I

(i) Attock City

(ii) Chach area

Malik Amin Aslam Khan of Shamsabad, Minister of State for Environment.

NA58 Attock-II

(i) Jand Tehsil

(ii)Pandi Gheb Tehsil

Malik Allah Yar Khan of Khunda Chairman Public Accounts Committee.

NA59 Attock-III

(i) Hassan Abdal Tehsil

(ii) Fateh Jang Tehsil

(iii)Sanjwal Cantt

(iv) Union Councils Golra and Akhori of Tehsil Attock

Mr. Shaukat Aziz

Prime Minister Islamic Republic of Pakistan

MPAs

PP15 Attock-I

Syed Ejaz Hussain Bokhari Advocate former Chairman District Council Attock.

PP16 Attock-II

Col (r) Shuja Khanzada of Shadi Khan Provincial Minister

PP17 Attock-III

Sardar Muhammad Ali Khan Provincial Parliamentary secretary

PP18 Attock-IV

Col (r) Malik Muhammad Anwar Provincial Minister

PP19 Attock-V

Peer Abbas Mohi-ud-Din Shad of Makhad Shareef

Senators

Former Chairman of District Council Attock Sardar Mehmood Khan Advocate is Member Senate of Pakistan.

PPP Central Leader Malik Hakmeen Khan and Late Ahmad Waheed Akhtar Advocate were also Members of Senate.

Attock District covers an area of 6,857 km² and is subdivided into six tehsils named after their major towns:

1. Attock
2. Fateh Jang
3. Hassan Abdal
4. Jand
5. Pindi Gheb
6. Hazro

Tehsil Nazims

Qazi Khalid Mehmood Nazim Tehsil Attock

Sardar Arjamand Zaheer Afzal Khan Nazim Tehsil Fatehjang

Haji Shafqat Ali Khan Tahirkheli Nazim Tehsil Hassanabdal

Sardar Manzar Ameer Khan Nazim Tehsil Jand

Malik Liaqat Ali Khan Nazim Tehsil Pindigheb

Raza Khan Nazim Tehsil Hazro

• Attock City
• Attock Cantt
• Attock Khurd
• Akhori
• Basia
• Bahader Khan
• Behboodi (Raza Khan Politics, Qari Saeed-ur-Rehman Religious and Politics)
• Behraam Ki Bara Dari
• Begum Ki Sra'ey
• Basal
• Bahter (Late Sardar Muhammad Sadiq Khan, Sardar Tahir Sadiq Khan Politics)
• Burhan (Barkat Ali Khan Politics)
• Darya (Late Peer Hafiz Saeed Sahab Religious and Politics)
• Daman (Haji Mohammad Ayub Khan a promient figure of the area)(Mohammad Nawaz Khan ex-vice chairman of District council Attock and presently serving as Nazim Union council Horoon)Mr. Mira Khan a well educated and well behaved gentleman and a known social worker of the area)
• Daurdad (Late Muhammad Yaqoob Khan(1919-1992) Social work and Politics, Muhammad Ismail Khan Shaheed(1953-2006) Journalism and social work, Hafiz Abdul Hameed Khan Journalism)
• Dekhnair
• Dhoke Fateh
• Fateh Jang (Tehsil Headquarter)
• Ghazi Barotha (Ghazi is a Tehsil Headquarter of District Haripur and Barotha is a famous village in Teshil and District Attock while "Ghazi Barotha" is famous for Hydro Power Project which start production of electricity recently)
• Golra
• Gondal
• Ghorghushti (Ahsan Khan former Member Distrcit Council Attock)
• Hattian
• Haji Shah
• Hazro (Tehsil Headquarter)
• Hassanabdal (Tehsil Headquarter)
• Haroon (Rustam Khan, Nisar Khan, Abdul Rasheed Khan Politics)
• Hameed
• Jatial (Qazi Khalid Mehmood Politics)
• Jalalia (Wasiq Khan former Vice Chairman Zila Council Attock)
• Jand (Tehsil Headquarter)
• Kamalpur Musa
• Kamra (Syed Ejaz Bokhari MPA and former Chairman Zila Council Attock)
• Kanjri Ka Maqbra
• Kaloo Kalan
• Koolathi
• Malhoo (Lt.Gen Jahandad Khan former Governer Sindh Province)
• Makhad (Peer Safiuddin Politics, Peer Abbas Politics)
• Madrota
• Mansar
• Malak Mala (Khan Dost Muhammad Khan, Chairman Union Council Malak Mala for three consecutive terms)
• Mirza
• Musa (Late. Syed Muhammad Sulman Shah, Spiritual and Religious)
• Nartupa
• Pind Fazal Khan (Retired Tehsildar Late Sardar Sultan Mahmood Khan Bismil(1933-2004) Prominent Poet and Landlord, Sardar Sajid Mahmood Khan, Landlord and Numberdar)
• Pind Sultani Mithial Basal
• Pindi Gheb (Tehsil Headquarter, Malik Ameer Muhammad Khan Plitics)
• Saba Kumala
• Sama (Sheikh Aftab Ahmed Politics)
• Shinka
• Shamasabad (L. Sir Malik Muhammad Amin Khan , L. Malik Muhammad Akram Khan, Malik Muhammad Aslam Khan, Malik Amin Aslam Khan. all Politics)
• Shadi Khan (Alhaj Taj Muhammad Khanzada, Shuja Khanzada Politics)
• Sirka
• Taja Baja
• Thatta
• Viro (Late. Malik Abdul Ghani )
• Waisa

• Attock Fort
• GPI Attock
• Ghazi Barotha Dam
• Kamra Air Base
• POF Sanjwal
• Sindh River
• Kund National Park
• Harro River

• Attock Fort

Attock fort was completed in 1583 under the supervision of Khawaja Shamsuddin Khawafi, a minister of Emperor Akbar. The Mughal caravan sarai outside the fort, which is almost on the G.T. Road, was also built during this period. Please note that no visitors are allowed inside the Fort.

• Chhachh

Chhachh is a geographical region in the northern section of Attock, a district of Punjab, Pakistan, and south-west Hazara. Chhachh is a plain which rolls from the Hazara-Gandhara Hills south to Kamra, and from east of the Indus to the broken lands near Lawrencepur. It is the most fertile area of the Rawalpindi division. Almost 50% of the population of this area are of Pathan origin, who speak Pushto and hindko. The other 50% speak Hindko, a dialect of western Punjabi. The remaining population consists of Jats, Rajputs, Gujjars, Syeds, Awans, and other tribes. Chach people are called Chachies and they are revered for their vicious fighting ability in ancient times and more recently for their much advancement in education, culture, and society. It is known to be one of the most beautiful region in Pakistan due to its geostatistics. It is a valley surrounded by mountains from three sides and Indus river from one side. It offers the perfect shape of Pakistan's diverse culture.

• Gandhara

Gandhara (gəndä'rə) , historic region of India, now in NW Pakistan. Situated astride the middle Indus River, the region had Taxila and Peshawar as its chief cities. It was originally a province of the Persian Empire and was reached (327 B.C.) by Alexander the Great. The region passed to Chandragupta, founder of the Maurya empire, in the late 4th cent. B.C., and under Asoka was converted (mid-3d cent.) to Buddhism. It was part of Bactria from the late 3d cent. to the 1st cent. B.C. Under the Kushan dynasty (1st cent.–3d cent. A.D.), and especially under Kanishka, Gandhara developed a noted school of sculpture, consisting mainly of images of Buddha and relief’s representing scenes from Buddhist texts, but with marked Greco-Roman elements of style. The art form flourished in Gandhara until the 5th cent., when the region was conquered by the Huns.

• Punjab Province
• Districts of Pakistan

Panini 520BC-460BC: "Panini was born in Shalatula, a town near to Attock on the Indus river in present day Pakistan. The dates given for Panini are pure guesses. Experts give dates in the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th century BC and there is also no agreement among historians about the extent of the work which he undertook. What is in little doubt is that, given the period in which he worked, he is one of the most innovative people in the whole development of knowledge. We will say a little more below about how historians have gone about trying to pinpoint the date when Panini lived. Panini was a Sanskrit grammarian who gave a comprehensive and scientific theory of phonetics, phonology, and morphology

A treatise called Astadhyayi (or Astaka ) is Panini's major work. It consists of eight chapters, each subdivided into quarter chapters. In this work Panini distinguishes between the language of sacred texts and the usual language of communication. Panini gives formal production rules and definitions to describe Sanskrit grammar. Starting with about 1700 basic elements like nouns, verbs, vowels, consonants he put them into classes. The construction of sentences, compound nouns etc. is explained as ordered rules operating on underlying structures in a manner similar to modern theory. In many ways Panini's constructions are similar to the way that a mathematical function is defined today" Citied from (J J O'Connor and E F Robertson, Panini Biography, 2000) MacTutor History of Mathematics [2]

University of Punjab Affiliate Colleges

• Govt. Degree College Attock
• Govt. College, Fathe Jhang
• Govt. College, Hazro
• Govt. College, Pindi Ghab
• Fazaia Degree College, M.R.F, Kamara
• Shaheen Degree College, Kamra
• Govt. College for Women Attock
• Govt. College for Women, Hazro
• Govt. College for Women, Pindi Gheb
• Govt. College, Attock
• Govt. Commercial Training Institute, Attock
• Govt. College of Commerce, Attock

HEC Affiliate Institutes

• COMSATS Institute of IT, Attock Campus

Administrative Divisions of Punjab (Pakistan)
Capital	Lahore
Districts	Attock | Bahawalnagar | Bahawalpur | Bhakkar | Chakwal | Dera Ghazi Khan | Faisalabad | Gujranwala | Gujrat | Hafizabad | Jhang | Jhelum | Kasur | Khanewal | Khushab | Lahore | Layyah | Lodhran | Mandi Bahauddin | Mianwali | Multan | Muzaffargarh | Nankana Sahib | Narowal | Okara | Pakpattan | Rahim Yar Khan | Rajanpur | Rawalpindi | Sahiwal | Sargodha | Sheikhupura | Sialkot | Toba Tek Singh | Vehari