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8 unusual facts about Indus river


Alexander Meadows Rendel

He designed the Lansdowne Bridge Rohri at Sukkur over the Indus River, which when it was completed in 1889 was the largest cantilever bridge in the world.

Anacalypsis

:We have seen that though Cristna was said to have left many sons, he left his immense empire, which extended from the sources of the Indus to Cape Comorin, (for we find a Regio Pandionis near this point,) to his daughter Pandæa; but, from finding the icon of Buddha so constantly shaded with the nine Cobras, &c.

Demchok

The Line of Actual Control (LAC) passes along the southeast side of the village, following a wadi just upstream from the nearby Indus River.

Indus Arthur

She had blue eyes, blonde hair, and a humorous quirk to her lips. Both Arthur and her grandmother were named for the Indus River in Tibet.

Oriental Bird Club

The OBC's geographical area of interest ranges from the Indus River, Pakistan, in the west, through India and south-east Asia to Wallace's line, eastern Indonesia, in the east, and from Mongolia, north-east Russia (east of 90°E), and Japan in the north, to the Lesser Sundas and Christmas Island in the south.

Raikot Bridge

Raikot Bridge is the gateway to Nanga Parbat Base Camp, on the Indus River in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan.

Water and Sanitation Extension Program

WASEP most often sources water from natural mountain springs or water channels of the Indus River requiring installation of village level filtration plants.

Westwood, Baillie

In 1887 the company made the girders for the Lansdowne Bridge over the Indus River, then the longest rigid girder bridge in the world.


Allai Khwar Hydropower Plant

Allai Khwar Hydropower Plant is a run-of-the-river, high head project of 687 metres, located in the Battagram District on the Allai Khwar River, a left bank tributary of Indus River in NWFP Province.

Anavatapta

The four mythical rivers are sometimes identified with the Ganges (east), the Indus (south), the Oxus (west), and the Tarim or the Huang He (Yellow River, north).

Biblical place names in Khorasan

Early Islamic usage regarded the area east of western Persia (Jibal, also known as Persian Iraq) as part of the poorly-defined region of Khurasan, extending to the Indus River and Sindh.

Gilgit District

Indus River - enters Gilgit District from Skardu District about six kilometers north of Jaglot where Gilgit River falls into Indus River and the Indus flows south along the Karakoram Highway.

Hindu Kush

Alexander the Great explored the Afghan areas between Bactria and the Indus River after his conquest of the Achaemenid Empire in 330 BC.

Indus Highway

The Indus Highway, also known by its technical designation N-55, is a 1,264 km long four-lane highway that runs along the Indus River in Pakistan connecting the port city of Karachi with the northwestern city of Peshawar via D.G.Khan.

Khurshid Anwar Jilani

His legacy is survived by writers, military officers and entrepreneurs; son, Ahmed Javed Jilani, former president Lahore High Court Bar, son, Col(rtd) Ahmad Taufiq Jilani, Punjab Regiment (Lahore), daughter, Farzana Agha Jilani (Islamabad), son, Tauqir Jilani, (founder of VideoShack & Jilani Motoronics Co) in California, and son, Major Tahir Mahmood Jilani, a military pilot flying a Bird Dog L-19, went missing in action in 1970 over river Indus.

Kunar Province

The River flows south and southwest from its source in the Pamir area and is part of the Indus river watershed via the Kabul River which it meets at Jalalabad.

Mithankot

Mithankot is located on the right (west) bank of the Indus River, only a short distance downstream from its junction with Panjnad River.

Sauvira Kingdom

Al-Beruni considered Sauvira to represent southwest Punjab, including Multan, Mithankot and adjacent areas at the region of the confluence of Indus river with other rivers of Punjab in modern Pakistan.

Uch

It is believed that in 325 BCE Alexander the Great founded a city called Alexandria on the Indus at the site of the last confluence of Punjab rivers with the Indus.


see also

Aornos

The site lies north of Attock in Punjab, on a strongly reinforced mountain spur above the narrow gorges in a bend of the upper Indus River.

Pothohar Plateau

Potohar was known as Paurava in the past and the king of this region was King Porus and he is known for the famous battle with Alexander between the regions of Jhelum river and Indus river.

Takht-e-Sulaiman

The legend of the Sulaiman mountain range is east of Quetta (Pakistan), overlooking the plain of the Indus river.

Tarbela Dam

Because the source of the Indus River is glacial meltwater from the Himalayas, the river carries huge amounts of sediment.

Thatta

In 1739 however, following the Battle of Karnal, the province was ceded to Nadir Shah of Persia, after which Thatta fell into neglect as the Indus river started to silt up.