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Main Tribes | Pashtun/Pathan|
Hindu- Population Before 1947 |
Notables of Attock District |
Creation
The district was created in April 1904 by the merger of Talagang Tehsil in
the Jhelum District with the Pindigheb, Fatehjang and Attock tehsils from
Rawalpindi District of the Punjab province of British India
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Neighbours
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 to 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.
Name
Attock District original name was Attock it changes Campbellpur after the
Briton Sir Campbell who founded the city of Campbellpore. The name of the
district was changed to Attock as of 1978 again. Attock city is the district
headquarters
Population
According to the 1998 census of Pakistan the district had a population of
1,274,935 of which 20.45% were urban, The estimated population in 2008 was
1.58 million.
The city also had a significant Muhajir population. In fact, Attock city was
dominated by the immigrants from India but gradually their population has
dwindled and now they are a minority - mostly living in old quarters of
Attock city
Resources
Dhullian is a village in Pindigheb Tehsil. This village has important
resources namely Oil and Gas. It has been providing oil since the 1930s.
There are all types of soil as mountains, plain areas fertile grounds and it
also has a river flowing through it. There is a famous Ghala Mandi located
in Dhullian Chowk. Here 90% of the total population area agricultural. This
historical village is located at the end of Attock District
History
According to the Imperial Gazetteer of India:
The history of the District is practically the same as that of Rawalpindi
district. Hassan Abdal, the chief relic of the Buddhist period, was one of
the towns subordinate to the capital of Taxila, and under the Gakhars,
Mughals, and Sikhs the District followed the fortunes of Rawalpindi. The
chief historical events recorded are the defeat of Anand Pal near Ohind by
Mahmud of Ghazni, the foundation of ATTOCK by Akbar, and its vicissitudes in
the Sikh Wars. The District was constituted in 1904,
the tahsils of Attock, Pindi Gheb, and Fatahjang being transferred from Rawalpindi District, and that of Talagang from Jhelum.
Ancient History
Pāṇini was an ancient Indian scholar who was born between the 7th and 4th
centuries BC in Shalatula, a town near to Attock on the Indus river in
present day Pakistan. He is regarded by scholars as one of the most
innovative people in the whole development of knowledge. He was a Sanskrit
grammarian who gave a comprehensive and scientific theory of phonetics,
phonology, and morphology.
The Astadhyayi (also known as Astaka) is Panini's major work.
" 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 â€