Attock District


Attock District is a district in Pothohar Plateau of the Punjab Province of Pakistan. Attock is the capital of the district.
The district was created in April 1904 by the merging of tehsils of nearby districts. Its former name was Campbellpur. Today the district consists of 6 tehsils that are Attock, Fateh Jang, Hazro, Hassan Abdal, Jand and Pindi Gheb.
It is located in the north of the Punjab province, Attock district is bordered by Chakwal to its south, Mianwali to its south west, Rawalpindi to its east, Kohat to its west, Nowshera to its north west and Swabi and Haripur to its north.

History

The original name of Attock District was Attock. It was changed to Campbellpur after the Commander-in-Chief of British forces Sir Colin Campbell who rebuilt the city of Campbellpur. The name of the district was changed to Attock as of 1978 again.
Attock city is the district headquarters.

Demography

According to the 1998 census of Pakistan the district had a population of 1,274,935 of which 20.45% were urban. The estimated population in 2008 was 1.58 million.
In the 1998 census, % of the population identified their language as Punjabi. Pashto was the language of % and Urdu – of %. The Punjabi dialect of the eastern Fateh Jang Tehsil is called Sohāī̃ and belongs to the Dhanni dialect group. The dialects of Pindi Gheb Tehsil and of Attock have been classified as part of Hindko.

Administrative divisions

The district of Attock is divided into six tehsils which contain a total of 72 Union Councils.

Education

Attock has a total of 1,287 government schools out of which 51 percent are for female students. The district has an enrolment of 224,487 in public sector schools, having literacy rate of 26.3%. Attock is considered as most under developed district of Punjab.
Govt.Post Graduate College Attock is one of the oldest college of the country. Many greats were the students of this college including Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi, Munoo Bahi, Col. Muhammad Khan and former Air Chief Muhammad Anwar Shamim.