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  CRL - SAMP - Guides to Collections
[Proposals for the irrigational settlement of the Ghorabari Taluka of the Karachi District] [microform].
[Proposals for the revision of a settlement in the Nasharo Taluka of the Shikarpur District].
[Proposals for a revision of the settlement in the Sukkur Taluka of the Shikarpur District] [microform].
www.crl.edu /areastudies/SAMP/collections/landsettpak.htm   (3832 words)

  
 MIANWALI - Online Information article about MIANWALI
Ruins of Kafirkot Further north, the remains at Mari and, in the Dera Ismail Khan District, at Kafirkot, are indication of the existence of a Hindu civilization of considerable importance and antiquity.
The Pathan Immigrations Mahmud of Ghazni is said to have ravaged the upper half of the district together with Bannu, expelling its Hindu inhabitants and reducing the country to a desert.
The upper half of the district was ruled by the Ghakkars, who became feudatories of the Mughal Empire, of which the district continued to form a part until the invasion of Nadir Shah.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /MEC_MIC/MIANWALI.html   (3401 words)

  
 Mianwali - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Mianwali (Urdu: میانوالی) is one of the southern cities in the province of Punjab, Pakistan.
Further north, the remains at Mari and, in the Dera Ismail Khan District, at Kafirkot, are indication of the existence of a Hindu civilization of considerable importance and antiquity.
The district has been settled by a triple immigration from opposite directions, of Awans from the north-east, of Jats and Balochis up the valley of the Indus from the south, and of Pakhtuns from the north-west.
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 Khyber Gateway >> Pashto Places >> Lakki Marwat
It is bounded on the north by Bannu and Karak, to the east by Mianwali in Panjab, on the South East by Dera Ismail Khan district, and on the southwest by Tank District.
The hilly areas are along the boundaries of the district especially in the east, southeast, southwest and northwest.
In the western portion of the district, the soil is fairly stiff clay covered by a layer of stones at the foot of the hills.
www.khyber.org /pashtoplaces/lakkimarwat.shtml   (2293 words)

  
 The cadet college issue -DAWN - National; May 17, 2005
Mianwali district has remained unprivileged for such an institution since the inception of Pakistan.” Such are the opening lines of PC-1 form highlighting the justification for the establishment of a cadet college in Mianwali.
It is midway between the PAF establishment at Sakesar in the east and the PAF base at Mianwali in the west.
Residents of the Chhidru union council and all social circles of Mianwali feel that influential personalities are bent upon misleading the federal government, and urged that the decision of the district government should be honoured.
www.dawn.com /2005/05/17/nat30.htm   (843 words)

  
 History & Settlement of Bannu District :: Khyber.ORG
To the south the Mianwali Thal had no allurements for the invading colonists, and up to the close of the last century, hardly a fixed settlement was to be found in it, or in the alluvial bed of the Indus west of it.
Previously the trans-Indus portion of the new district comprising the tahsils of Bannu, Marwat, and Isakhel, had belonged to the Dera Ismail Khan district, with Edwardesabad, then Dalip Nagar, as its head-quarters and the cis-Indus portion, comprising of the sub-division of Kachhi or Mianwali, to the old Leiah district.
Across the Indus in Mianwali the social state of its inhabitants was much as in Isakhel, excepting that in the south, cultivation was more backward, population being very sparse and a roving pastoral life being easier than that of the settled cultivator.
www.khyber.org /publications/031-035/bannuhistory.shtml   (8156 words)

  
 About Mianwali   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
District Mianwali is bounded by district Attock on North-East, Chakwal and Khushab districts on East and Bhakkar on South and NWFP on its West and North-West.
The district can be divided into two parts, a hilly terrain in the north, south-west and north-east, and firm clay plain falling in the front of Salt Ranges and the Dhuk hills, Khattak and Niazi hills in the north-west and the Salt Ranges in the south-east.
Bhangikhel hills are situated at the extreme north of the district all along the Indus and Khattak hills of Kohat.
www.jayzay.4mg.com /about.html   (2974 words)

  
 Bannu - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
BANNU, a town and district of British India, in the Derajat division of the North-West Frontier Province.
The principal tribes inhabiting the district are: (1) Waziri Pathans, recent immigrants from the hills, for the most part peaceable and good cultivators; (2) Marwats, a Pathan race, inhabiting the lower and more sandy portions of the Bannu valley; (3) Bannuchis, a mongrel Afghan tribe of bad physique and mean vices.
The inhabitants of this district have always been very independent and stubbornly resisted the Afghan and Sikh predecessors of the British.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Bannu   (372 words)

  
 ..:: District Govt. Bhakkar DCO::..
The Bhakkar district was created in 1982 after slicing the area from district Mianwali of which it was a part as sub division.
It is one of the border district of the Punjab.
To the east are Khushab and Jhang Districts an to the north is Mianwali District.
www.bhakkar.gov.pk /profile.htm   (987 words)

  
 Afgan refuses to give in over Mianwali nazim -DAWN - National; September 5, 2005
MIANWALI, Sept 4: Federal Parliamentary Affairs Minister Dr Sher Afgan refused to accept Humair Hayat Khan Rokhri as the ruling party nominee for the district nazim despite a clear announcement from the PML leadership from Lahore on Sunday.
Mr Rokhri alleged that the federal minister was misusing the names of the president and the prime minister for his vested interests and was causing a harm to the party unity and cause.
He told reporters that the name of the Mianwali district was not even included in the agenda item of the meeting held in the President’s House on Saturday night.
www.dawn.com /2005/09/05/nat21.htm   (472 words)

  
 The Nation
In a similar fight in border district of Naushki, Mir Bahadur Khan Mengal of PML (Q), the candidate of former Governor Balochistan Justice Amirul Mulk Mengal was elected nazim by defeating Yousaf Badini, the son of PML (Q)’s Senator Mir Wali Mohammad Badini.
In the tough fight within the party in Chaghi district, Mir Hashim Nautazai, the cousin of provincial Minister for Excise and Taxation Mir Amanullah won the elections by defeating the former district nazim Arif Jan, the brother of Sardar Fatah MOhammad Hasani, the MNA of PML(Q).
Maulvi Habibur Rahman was elected district Nazim in Zhob by defeating Sheikh Saeed Hasan Mundokhail, the joint nominee of PMAP and PML(Q).
www.nation.com.pk /daily/oct-2005/7/index1.php   (6109 words)

  
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Mianwali District Hospital is the main hospital in an area with a population of about 1.5 million.
The work undertaken at Mianwali is part of a four year national project to upgrade district hospitals across the four provinces, Punjab, Baluchistan, Sindh and North West Frontier Province, in an effort to reduce the incidence of avoidable blindness and other eye disease.
For the people of Mianwali district, the long trip to Lahore for treatment is about to become a thing of the past.
www.hollows.org /content/TextOnly.aspx?s=158   (1178 words)

  
 Tribuneindia...Regional Briefs
The Deputy Commissioner, the Civil Surgeon, the District Family Welfare Officer, para medical staff and NGO's were given award at a function held at Chandigarh recently, according to the Civil Surgeon, Dr C.P. Bansal.
Protest rally: The district unit of the Medical Practitioners' Association, Punjab, organised a rally in front of the Primary Health Centre, Mukandur, about 20 km from here on Sunday to protest against the alleged harassment by health and police officials who have allegedly implicated some medical practitioners in false cases.
Mianwali association: The local Mianwali District Association will organise the annual ‘mela’ on May 2 at the Sector 35 Dharamshala of Sri Ram Temple.
www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99apr28/region.htm   (1762 words)

  
 Mianwali Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Mianwali Online has specially developed a software where people belonging to Mianwali would enter their details thus forming a directory of Mianwalians.
After a long time I visited my hometown Mianwali and was shocked to see that since the days of independence the town had made no progress..........Ballo Khel road is the only major road in the town more....
Islamabad (December 19 2004): The government is considering to restart work on the installation of the second biggest steel mill near Kalabagh, in Mianwali District, it is learnt.
www5.domaindlx.com /mianwalionline/index.htm   (1540 words)

  
 PPF - Media Files Details
MIANWALI, December 08 2005: There is no let-up in sentencing women to the horrific tradition of vani in this rugged district of Punjab, as four such incidents have come to the surface here within the last couple of weeks.
The callous custom, however, was once again forgotten by all including the state, the media and the human right campaigners as none of them pursued the issue as vigorously as was needed to vanish it once and for all from the lives of reticent women of Mianwali and adjoining areas.
The police, however, are not taking any action to help Amna Niazi and her sisters and cousins out of the clutches of the tradition despite the fact that they have been urging the government and the apex court to get their nikah quashed in the same manner executed in the Abba Khel episode.
www.pakistanpressfoundation.org /userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=6490   (864 words)

  
 ETHNODIRECTED APPROACH IN IDENTIFICATION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS OF LOWER MARGALLA HILLS, ISLAMABAD
The district lies between the 32-10º to 33-15º, north latitudes and 71-08º to 71-57º east longitudes.
            The district is bounded on the north by district of NWFP and Attock district of Punjab, on the east by Kohat districts, on the south by Bhakkar district of Punjab and on the west by Lakki, Karak and Dera Ismail Khan District of NWFP again.
The botanical aspects of the three different parts of the district, the hills the up-lands and the kacha may well be described separately.
www.siu.edu /~ebl/leaflets/tehsel.htm   (943 words)

  
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The family to whom the five girls in Mianwali were to be handed over, continue to demand the pledge be honoured, and insist the girls are in fact already the wives of male members of their clan.
Most incidents have been reported in the Mianwali district, with some reports in the media stating there have been at least a dozen cases within the last year.
The sisters, who had been victims of 'vani' in 1987, when they were infants - to compensate for a murder committed by their father - approached rights activists and said they would not wed the 'husbands' to whom they had been given away.
www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=52267&SelectRegion=Asia&SelectCountry=PAKISTAN   (1202 words)

  
 Pakistan Link Headlines
MIANWALI : Chief of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has said the youth would be instrumental in changing the politics of Pakistan.
Imran Khan said that despite the collusion of the powerful vested interest groups of Mianwali, the will of the people for change would prevail and he would defeat all 3 leading political mafias of the district.
He said Suharto of Indonesia was dethroned by the youth, similarly Z A Bhutto demolished the entrenched political forces by mobilizing the youth.
www.pakistanlink.com /headlines/June/19/12.html   (442 words)

  
 Legislators from MIANWALI (PP-36 to PP-39)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Malik Mumtaz Ahmad Bhacher, son of Malik Ghulam Abbas Khan, was born on October 1, 1941 at Wan Bacharan, District, Mianwali; is a graduate; and, comes of a famous political family, especially with reference to the Pakistan Movement.
PP-39 (Mianwali): PML(N) Malik Ghulam Shabbir Joyia, son of Malik Khan Umar, was born in 1933 at Naseerwala, district Mianwali; and, is a matriculate.
An agriculturist, who was elected as Chairman District Council Mianwali in 1983; and, as member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab first in 1985, then, in 1988 and 1990 and, lately, in 1997 for the fourth term.
www.pap.gov.pk /legislators/last/dist7.htm   (323 words)

  
 Education | The greatest test
Education doesn't exist in the impoverished Mianwali district of Punjab in Pakistan.
The district is crying out for help and the University of Bradford, along with its chancellor, Pakistan cricket legend Imran Khan, are desperately hoping that a new technical college they are developing together may slowly turn life around, at least for a handful of people.
The Mianwali Development Trust (MDT) is building the Namal College, which was made an associate college of Bradford late last year.
education.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,329535598-108234,00.html   (683 words)

  
 Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
District Bhakkar, the area of operation of the NGO, was established as a District on 1
Prior to becoming a district, it was a sub-division of district Mianwali.
Bhakkar town, the Headquarter of Bhakkar District is situated at a distance of about 375 kilometers from Lahore in the West.
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 Tehreek-e-Pakistan Key Mujahid - Moulana Muhammad Abdul Sattar Khan Niazi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The late Moulana Muhammad Abdul Sattar Khan Niazi (1915-2001) a preeminent leader of the Muslim Students Federation, a valiant freedom-fighter of the Pakistan Movement, and a sincere and truthful politician of Pakistan, was born in Village Attak Paniala in Tehsil lsa Khail, District Mianwali on the Ist of October, 1915, in a prominent Niazi family.
Having been re-elected as the President of District Muslim League Mianwali in 1942, he organized the first annual session of the Punjab Muslim League at Lyallpur, where the Quaid was given a resounding reception.
He died in Mianwali District Hospital is a result of heart failure on the 2nd of May 2001 and was buried in accordance with his will in the Complex founded by him near Rokhri Morr, Mianwali.
www.pakpost.gov.pk /philately/stamps2003/moulana_abdul_sattar.html   (700 words)

  
 Planning Honeymoon!- Matchpk.com
Chakwal was created as an independent district of Rawalpindi division in 1985 by combining subdivision Chakwal of district Jhelum, sub-division Talagang of district Attock and police station Choa Saidan Shah, carved out of subdivision Pind Dadan Khan, district Jhelum, and amalgamating it with sub-division Chakwal.
Lying at the beginning of the Potohar plateau and the Salt Range, Chakwal is a barani district and the terrain is mainly hilly, covered with scrub forest in the southwest, and levelled plains interspaced with dry rocky patches in the north and northeast.
At present district Chakwal consists of 3 subdivisions - Chakwal, Talagang and Choa Saidan Shah; 1 sub-tehsil- Kallar Kahar, 23 qanungois and 198 patwar circles.
www.matchpk.com /kalpoint/matrimonial/code/ver5.0/guide_wed_honeymoon_Chakwal.asp   (654 words)

  
 Mianwali Discussion Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
secondly the leadership of Mianwali is corrupt.......they always fill their pocket and don’t do positive, constructive steps for their people.
How can be converted into a fertile and rich land but no politician has any plan but i would like to mentioned only some problems and i also suggest all friends to raise their voice for these rights.
Mianwali (General) -- For general discussion - Mianwali District.
www5.domaindlx.com /mianwalionline/forum/display_message.asp?mid=27   (413 words)

  
 Welcome to Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf's Official Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
In a letter addressed to the Chief Election Commissioner which was released to the press by the party’s central secretariat, Imran Khan has drawn the attention of the Chief Election Commissioner to the gross violations of the election code of conduct by the Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhery Pervez Elahi.
Imran Khan is in Mianwali these days campaigning for the PTI candidate from PP 44 Hafeezullah Khan Niazi who is the joint opposition candidate contesting in a one to one fight against the King’s party candidate.
In his letter, the PTI Chief alleged that the Punjab Chief Minister traveled to Mianwali on January 5, 2003 using the official plane and his travel was advertised in the local newspapers at government’s expense.
www.insaf.org.pk /press/2003Jan/press_release_2003jan6.htm   (382 words)

  
 Urdu Times
Urdu Times(News) The pilot of a fighter plane of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) was killed when the aircraft crashed in Mianwali district on early Sunday, the PAF said.
PAF Officer Air Commodore Tahir Ameen Butt confirmed the death of the pilot, Wing Commander Rizwanullah.
District Police Officer Mianwali, Aslam Khan Ghauri, said that the plane came down in the mountains area at around 8 am.
www.urdutimes.com /englishnews/2005/09/12/en9   (144 words)

  
 Worldwide Association of Friends of Attock

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The district was named as Campbellpur after the name of Sir Campbell who laid foundation stone of Campbellpur City in 1908 a few kilometres away on south-east of Attock Khurd Town.
The average annual rainfall in the district is 783 mm.
According to 1998 Population and Housing Census, total population of Attock district is 1275 thousands persons out of which 636 thousands are males and 639 thousands are females.
www.angelfire.com /pro/attock   (1013 words)

  
 Legislators from MIANWALI (PP-43 to PP-46)
PML(Q) Mr Amanat Ullah Khan, son of Mr Ghulam Rasool Khan, was born on October 21, 1968 at Mianwali.
PML(Q) Mr Aamer Hayat Khan Rokhri son of Khan Amir Abdullah Khan Rokhri was born on August 12, 1956 at Mianwali.
Mr Muhammad Sibtain Khan son of Mr Abdur Rehman Khan was born on August 30, 1958 at Piplan, Mianwali.
www.pap.gov.pk /legislators/present/dist7.htm   (538 words)

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