Nara, Attock

Nara (ناڑہ) is a village and union council of Jand Tehsil, Attock District, Punjab Province, Pakistan.

Location

Nara is located 117 kilometers from Islamabad. It is situated five kilometres from the Indus River (دریائے سندھ) on the border between the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces of Pakistan.

Administration

Nara is a union council of five other surrounding villages: Pari, Dandi Jiswal, Kundrala, Jalwal and Mari. Some of the prominent mohallahs of the village include: Mohallah Tamman, Mohallah Ziarat, Mohallah Tairha Shirqi, Mohallah Ma’ian Sehna, Mohallah Bazar, Mohallah Lunger Khana, Mohallah Imam Bargah, and Mohallah Tappa.

Demographics

Approximately forty thousand people live in Nara. The literacy rate among village inhabitants is around 70 percent. Internet usage in the village is less than one per cent. Teledensity ratio in the village is around 75 per cent, including 5-7 per cent landline telephone subscribers.

Ethnically, Nara's inhabitants of the village can be divided into three groups: local Indians (Jats, →Arain← Bhati Rajputs, and Janjua Rajputs), Arabs (Awans, Khattar, and Fatimid Syeds), and Afghans (Khattak and some Bangash Pathans). Hindko is spoken in Nara, with some Pashto. Most of the village dwellers follow Sunni Hanafi Islam. Barelvi Sunnis, Deobandi Sunnis, and Shias also live here and there are more than twenty masjids (mosques) in the village.

Attock

Attock (Punjabi, Urdu: اٹک) formerly Campbellpur, is a city located in the northern border of the Punjab province of Pakistan and the headquarters of Attock District. In the 1901 census, Attock was reported to have had a population of 2866 people, a figure which has grown dramatically during the 20th century with 69,588 reported in the 1998 census and contemporary estimates approaching 100,000.

It is located on the bank of the Indus, 80 km (50 mi) from Rawalpindi, 100 km (62 mi) from Peshawar, and 10 km (6 mi) from the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, Kamra.

History

Gandhara was an ancient kingdom extending to the Swat valley and the Potohar plateau regions of Pakistan as well as the Jalalabad district of northeastern Afghanistan. Situated astride the middle Indus River, the region had Takshashila and Peshawar as its chief cities. It was conquered by the Persian Empire and later in 327 BC by Alexander the Great. The region occupied by Chandragupta, founder of the Maurya empire, in the late 4th century BC, and under Ashoka was converted in the mid-3rd century BC to Buddhism. It was part of Bactria from the late 3rd century to the 1st century BC. Under the Kushan dynasty (1st century–3rd century AD), and especially under Kanishka, Gandhara developed a noted school of sculpture, consisting mainly of images of Buddha and reliefs representing scenes from Buddhist texts, but with marked Greco-Roman elements of style. The art form flourished in Gandhara until the 5th century, when the region was conquered by the Huns. The whole region formed part of the Kingdom of Ederatides the Greek, who extended his power over western Punjab. The Indo-Greek kings held the country after him, being at last ousted (about 80 B.C.) by the Indo-Scythians. When the Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang visited the Attock district in A.D., 630 and again in A.D., 643, he reported that Buddhism was declining in the region.

Attock Tehsil

Attock Tehsil (Urdu: تحصیل اٹک‎) is one of the six tehsils (subdivisions) of Attock District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It lies between 33º38' and 34º0' N. and 72º7' and 72º50' E, with an area of 651 square miles (1,690 km²). The Indus bounds it on the north-west, dividing it from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, while the Haro flows through from east to west. The north-west corner is occupied by the fertile Chach plain. South of this lies a dry sandy plain, beyond which rises the Kala Chitta Range. The eastern half consists of the tract known as the Nala, which includes, along with a number of low hills and much broken country, a considerable area of fairly good level land, portions of which are irrigated from wells and by cuts from the Haro and other smaller streams.

History

According to the Imperial Gazetteer of India:

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