Khaur

For places in Iran, see Khur, Iran (disambiguation).

Khaur is a town and union council of Pindigheb Tehsil in the Attock District of Punjab.[1] The town is located at 33°14'59N 72°77'19E.[2]

Historically, the town of Khaur was the seat of a Chauhan Rajput principality, but by the 19th Century, the Chauhan had declined to merely the ownership of three villages in addition to Khaur. They still make a significant part of the town’s population. Other than the Chauhans, the town is also home to the Awan and Kahut tribes. The local language is Potwari dialect of Punjabi, and most of the population is Shia Muslim.[3]

Famous Personalities

The famous personality of Khaur is Malik Aitbar Khan s/o Sardar Noor khan,a Chauhan Rajput.

Khaur Oil Field

The town is the site of the first oilfield in Punjab, which operated from 1911 to 1950s. The first commercial success came with the drilling of Khaur-1 by Attock Oil Company in 1915, on a surface anti-cline in the Potwar Basin. Oil was discovered in sands in the lower part of the Miocene formation and a total of 396 shallow wells were drilled in the field from 1915 to 1954.[4]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.nrb.gov.pk/lg_election/union.asp?district=2&dn=Attock#
  2. ↑ http://www.fallingrain.com/world/PK/04/Khaur.html
  3. ↑ A Gazetteer of Attock District 1931 Part A
  4. ↑ World oil. Gulf Publishing Company. March 1947. p. 12. Retrieved 17 July 2011.

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