Tank, Pakistan

Tank
Tank
Tank
Coordinates: 32°08′N 70°14′E / 32.13°N 70.23°E / 32.13; 70.23Coordinates: 32°08′N 70°14′E / 32.13°N 70.23°E / 32.13; 70.23
Country Pakistan
Province Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
Time zone UTC+5 (PST)
Number of towns 1
Number of Union Councils 16

Tank (Urdu: ٹانک‬ ṭāṅk; Saraiki: ٹاک‎) ṭākk), is the capital city of Tank District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The city is located near Dera Ismail Khan.[1]

Language

Pashto and Saraiki are two languages spoken in Tank. Tank also has a few Hindko speakers, which is also spoken in the neighboring Dera Ismail Khan district. The vast majority of people are conversant in the Pashto language. English is also understood by the educated.[2]

Location

It is at 32º13' N. and 70º32' E[3] and is to the northwest of the Indus River and close to the Takht-i-Sulaiman Range.

Localities

The city was previously inside a fort. Here Sir Henry Durand, lieutenant-governor of the Punjab, was killed in 1870 when passing on an elephant under a gateway.[4]

Tank was the terminus railway station of Tank-Mari Indus Narrow gauge (762 mm or 2 ft 6 in) railway line. This railway line was closed in 1991.

See also

References

  1. ↑ JUI-F facing tough competition in NA-25 - Daily Times Pakistan
  2. ↑ Rohi – Rohi TV, Rohi Saraiki TV, Rohi TV Punjab, Rohi Multan Archived 2013-01-18 at the Wayback Machine.. Bolytv.com. Retrieved on 2012-06-01.
  3. ↑ Tank Town - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 23, p. 245.
  4. ↑ Wikisource Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tonk". Encyclopædia Britannica. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 10.
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