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2007-05-17 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2007-05-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 I've been wondering about Tank and wikipedia is helpful:
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Tank, or Tonk, is a town in Pakistan, North-West Frontier Province; pop. (1901), 4402. It was the residence of a Nawab, who formerly exercised semi-independent powers. Here Sir Henry Durand, lieutenant-governor of the Punjab, was killed in 1870 when passing on an elephant under a gateway. Dubbed as the Little England, this town is a staging point for most of the tribes of the region.

Tank is also an administrative district of the North-West Frontier Province, formerly part of Dera Ismail Khan district. Tank district is bounded by the districts of Lakki Marwat to the northeast, Dera Ismail Khan to the east and southeast, and South Waziristan to the southwest, west, and northwest.

and this is great:
"...unknown, unloved, and lost to the world in the wastes edging Waziristan... not one in a hundred Pakistanis beyond the River Indus has heard of this strategic little town"
- A quote from the book Tank: Crossroads to the Frontier Tribes by Molly Pont, an English Missionary surgeon who came to Tank in 1983

Posted by 3dc 2007-05-17 00:39|| 2007-05-17 00:39|| Front Page Top

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