My City, MIANWALI
Mianwali mera shehr ai
District Mianwali is bounded by district Attock on North-East, Chakwal and Khushab districts on East and Bhakkar on South and NWFP on its West and North-West. River Indus flows across the district from North to South. Three branches of the Thal Canal Emerging form Jinnah Barrage on river Indus near Kalabagh irrigate the vast areas. Another canal called Chashma Link Canal connects river Indus with river Jhelum through Chashma Barrage.
District Mianwali is spread over an area of 5,840 square kilometres.
It comprises of following three tehsils:-
Mianwali
Isakhel
Piplan
The district has extreme hot and cold climate. The maximum temperature during the summer shoots up to 51�C while the minimum temperature recorded in winter is as low as 2�C. The average rainfall in the district is about 250 mm.
GENERAL PHYSICAL FEATURES
The district resembled, more or less, a human bust, before it gave birth to a daughter larger than itself in 1982 when a new district Bhakkar was covered out of it. The remaining district now looks like a human head, focusing east-wards Isakhel tehsil forms the back of the head , Bhangikhel area projecting at the top like a crest, and the Sakesar hills forming a sharp nose.
The district can be divided into two parts, a hilly terrain in the north, south-west and north-east, and firm clay plain falling in the front of Salt Ranges and the Dhuk hills, Khattak and Niazi hills in the north-west and the Salt Ranges in the south-east.
Bhangikhel hills are situated at the extreme north of the district all along the Indus and Khattak hills of Kohat. The area is covered by the steep hills, deep ravines and small nullahs and streams. Cultivation is possible only on the hilly slopes, flattened hill tops and along the beds of the hill torrents. At the base, the hills bifurcate, one range, known as Maidani or Khattak Niazi, going round the north and west of Isakhel tehsil in the form of the bow, until it all but touches a prolongation of the Khesore and Paniala hills of Dera Ismail Khan district at Dara Tang which is a small pass cut out by the water of the Kurram river. The Khesore hills stretch all along the southern most limit of the district. The other range cut off from the base by the narrow stream near Kalabagh, shoots south-east through Mianwali tehsil and is linked with the Salt Range proper at Sakesar. The Sakesar hills, a holiday resort of today, and the summer headquarters of the district of yore, is quite green and fairly cool. Its highest peek is about 1,521 meters high. The area lying to the north-east of these hills is known as Khudri. It consists of rough ground, rugged hillocks, intersected by ravines and hill-torrents. The tract between these range and Khattak Niazi is a regular valley encircled by hills.
The central and southern plain area consist of cultivated tract between the river Indus and its high banks and sandy deserts as Thal. The Thal plain starts south of Sakesar hills and extends across the southern limit of the district. It was an area, notorious for scanty rain fall and devoid trees and vegetations, but due to the vigorous efforts of the new settlers as well as the local population, it looks green where ever the canal channels carry water. The area slopes seedily from north to south, enabling the canal water to flow down conveniently.
The district is adequately rich in minerals . The following minerals are found, of which only a few so far have been tapped:
Rock Salt, found in the Salt Range
Alume, found in the Salt Range
Coal, found in the hills near Makerwal
Iron Ore, occurs in the Kalabagh hills near Chichali
Silica Sand, found in the Salt Range
Fire Clay, occurs in the Salt Range
Dolomite, present near Paikhel
Gypsum, present in Daudkhel hills
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