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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.
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 ...
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.
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 area between the 1972 and 1981 Pakistan censuses. [3]
Takht-e-Nasarati is a tehsil of Karak District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. [2] The town of Takht-e-Nasrati is the headquarters of the tehsil. Its mountainous area link with the Punjab district mianwali.
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.
Latamber is a town and Union council of Karak District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. [1] It is an important town in the district of Karak and is located 29 kilometres to the east of Bannu at 33°6'33N 70°52'3E.
On December 30, 2020 the Samadhi of Shri Paramhans Ji Maharaj, a revered Hindu saint and the Krishna Dwara temple situated in the Teri village in the Karak District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan was attacked and burned, [1] by a mob of 1,500 local Muslims led by a local Islamic cleric. [2]