Tank, Pakistan
Tank or Tonk (Urdu: ٹانک), is the capital city of Tank District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The city is located near Waziristan.
Language [edit]
Saraiki (A Punjabi Variant) is mainly spoken in Tank which is also spoken in neighboring D.I.Khan district. TTank also has few people speaking Pashto. The vast majority of people are conversant in Urdu. English is understood by the educated.
Location [edit]
It is located at 32º13' N. and 70º32' E and is situated to the north-west of the Indus River and close to the Takht-i-Sulaiman Range.
Localities [edit]
The city was previously situated inside a fort. Here Sir Henry Durand, lieutenant-governor of thePunjab, was killed in 1870 when passing on an elephant under a gateway.
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.
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