Khaur | |
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  Khaur | |
| Coordinates: 33°14′28″N72°16′4″E / 33.24111°N 72.26778°E [1] | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Province | Punjab |
| District | Attock |
| Tehsil | Pindigheb |
| Region | Chhachh |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
Khaur is a town and union council in Pindigheb Tehsil of Attock District in Punjab Province of Pakistan. [2]
The major tribes of town are Chauhan, gheba, awan, zildar While the important family of khaur is MALIK LAL KHAN & Sons & Sardar Uzair Hayat Zildar’s family. Which are known as the Feudal, Ancestors, wadera of khaur. While in 90’s these Families owned around thousands of acres land area near small towns around khaur while main language is ghebi punjabi dialect of hindko, and most of the population is Sunni Hanfi shia wahabi Brailvi Muslim. [3]
The town is the first site of an oilfield in Punjab which operated from 1911 to the 1950s. The first commercial success came with the drilling of Khaur-1 by Pakistan Oilfields Limited in 1915, on a surface anticline 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]
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