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Karak District (Pashto: کرک ولسوالۍ, Urdu: ضلع کرک pronounce ⓘ) 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 and Karachi – it is 131 km from the provincial capital Peshawar.
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. [7] [8] The division borders Bannu Division to the south and west, Peshawar Division to the north and east, the province of Punjab to the east, and Afghanistan to the northwest.
Karak is a fast-growing city with just over 50,000 people. It is the second-largest city in Kohat Division and is the only urbanized area and namesake of Karak District. Karak's population nearly doubled between 1998 and 2017. [1] The dominant language in the city is Pashto, which nearly everybody speaks. The city was first labeled an urban ...
Districts have formed an integral part of civil administration in the subcontinent since colonial times. When the North-West Frontier Province (the former name of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) formed in November 1901, it was divided into five "settled districts": Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan, Hazara, Kohat, and Peshawar, and a "trans-border tract" of land which encompassed five "Political Agencies": Khyber ...
Pareshan Khattak, (b. 10 December 1931 - d. 16 April 2009) from Karak Pakistan. His real name was Ghamay jan khattak "Pashto" پښتو" غمے جان خټک", he was a former Vice-Chancellor, Pashto poet and writer and former Chairman University Grants Commission of Pakistan. His books titled “Pukhtana Kochay,” “Dozakhi Pakhto ...
A district council (or zila council) is a local government body at the district level.. The functions of a district council include construction and maintenance of roads, and bridges, building hospitals and dispensaries, schools and educational institutions, health facilities and sanitation, tube wells for drinking water, rest houses, and coordination of activities of the Union councils within ...
Nari Panoos is a village and Union Council of Karak District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. [1] It is located at 33°10′57″N 71°9′46″E / 33.18250°N 71.16278°E / 33.18250; 71.16278 with an altitude of 678 metres (2227 feet) [ 2 ] and is an area where salt is
Teri is Former Tehsil of Kohat now a village and Union Council in Karak District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. [1] It is located at 33°18'0"N 71°6'0"E with an altitude of 634 metres (2,083 feet). [2] Teri, the Khattak town of Kohat Division, Banda Daudshah Tehsil. Teri is 38 miles from Kohat.