Country Pakistan Number of towns 1 Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Time zone PST (UTC+5) Number of Union Councils 16 | |
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Tank or Tonk (Urdu: ٹانک ṭāṅk; Saraiki: ٹاک) ṭākk), is the capital city of Tank District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The city is located near Waziristan.
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Language
Masoodi language are spoken in tank Pashto is mainly spoken in Tank. Tank also has few people speaking Seraiki which is also spoken in neighboring D.I.Khan district. The vast majority of people are conversant in Pashto language. English is understood by the educated.
Location
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
The city was previously situated inside a fort. Here Sir Henry Durand, lieutenant-governor of the Punjab, 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.