A report on Pakistan and Indus River
The 3180 km river rises in Western Tibet, flows northwest through the disputed region of Kashmir, bends sharply to the left after the Nanga Parbat massif, and flows south-by-southwest through Pakistan, before emptying into the Arabian Sea near the port city of Karachi.
- Indus RiverThe Indus region, which covers most of present day Pakistan, was the site of several successive ancient cultures including the Neolithic Mehrgarh and the Bronze Age Indus Valley civilisation (2,800–1,800 BCE) at Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro.
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Iran
5 linksCountry in Western Asia.
Country in Western Asia.
It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north, by Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, and by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
Later conquests under Cyrus and his successors expanded the empire to include Lydia, Babylon, Egypt, parts of the Balkans and Eastern Europe proper, as well as the lands to the west of the Indus and Oxus rivers.
Alexander the Great
6 linksKing of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.
King of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.
After the fall of Persia, the Macedonian Empire held a vast swath of territory between the Adriatic Sea and the Indus River.
He invited the chieftains of the former satrapy of Gandhara (a region presently straddling eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan), to come to him and submit to his authority.
Hindu Kush
5 links800 km mountain range in Central and South Asia to the west of the Himalayas.
800 km mountain range in Central and South Asia to the west of the Himalayas.
It stretches from central and western Afghanistan into northwestern Pakistan and far southeastern Tajikistan.
It divides the valley of the Amu Darya (the ancient Oxus) to the north from the Indus River valley to the south.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
5 linksKhyber Pakhtunkhwa (Hindko and Urdu: ; خېبر پښتونخوا), often abbreviated as KPK or KP, is a province of Pakistan.
Yusufzai Pashtun tribes from the Kabul and Jalalabad valleys began migrating to the Valley of Peshawar beginning in the 15th century, and displaced the Swatis of the Bhittani confederation (a predominant Pashtun tribe of Hazara div) and Dilazak Pashtun tribes across the Indus River to Hazara Division.
Pashtuns
5 linksIranian ethnic group who are native to Central Asia and South Asia.
Iranian ethnic group who are native to Central Asia and South Asia.
The Pashtun people are indigenous to a historical region known as Pashtunistan, which stretches across southern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan and hosts the majority of their global population.
The majority of Pashtuns are found in the native Pashtun homeland, located south of the Hindu Kush which is in Afghanistan and west of the Indus River in Pakistan, principally around the Sulaiman Mountains.
Kushan Empire
5 linksSyncretic empire, formed by the Yuezhi, in the Bactrian territories in the early 1st century.
Syncretic empire, formed by the Yuezhi, in the Bactrian territories in the early 1st century.
It spread to encompass much of modern-day territory of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northern India, at least as far as Saketa and Sarnath near Varanasi (Benares), where inscriptions have been found dating to the era of the Kushan Emperor Kanishka the Great.
The Yuezhi reached the Hellenic kingdom of Greco-Bactria (in northern Afghanistan and Uzbekistan) around 135 BC. The displaced Greek dynasties resettled to the southeast in areas of the Hindu Kush and the Indus basin (in present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan), occupying the western part of the Indo-Greek Kingdom.
Peshawar
5 linksPeshawar (پېښور ; ; ; ), historically known as Purushapura, is the capital city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
As the first Pashtun tribe to settle the region, the Dilazak Pashtuns began settling in the Valley of Peshawar, and are believed to have settled regions up to the Indus River by the 11th century.
Kashmir
4 linksNorthernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.
Northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.
The rule of his descendants, under the paramountcy (or tutelage ) of the British Crown, lasted until the Partition of India in 1947, when the former princely state of the British Indian Empire became a disputed territory, now administered by three countries: India, Pakistan, and China.
Kashmir is traversed by three rivers namely Indus, Jehlum and Chenab.
Harappa
5 linksArchaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan, about 24 km west of Sahiwal.
Archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan, about 24 km west of Sahiwal.
The Harappan Civilisation has its earliest roots in cultures such as that of Mehrgarh, approximately 6000 BC. The two greatest cities, Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, emerged circa 2600 BC along the Indus River valley in Punjab and Sindh.
Mohenjo-daro is another major city of the same period, located in Sindhprovince of Pakistan. One of its most well-known structures is the Great Bath of Mohenjo-Daro.
Mohenjo-daro
3 linksMohenjo-daro ((موئن جو دڙو, meaning "Mound of the Dead Men" or "Mohan's Mound"; ) is an archaeological site in the province of Sindh, Pakistan.
Mohenjo-daro is located off the right (west) bank of the lower Indus river in Larkana District, Sindh, Pakistan.