Jamrud
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Jamrud جمرود |
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 Pakistan
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| Province : | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | ||
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34 ° 0 ′ N , 71 ° 23 ′ E
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| Height : | 461 m | ||
| Time zone : |
PST ( UTC + 5 )
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Jamrud ( Urdu جمرود Jamrud ) is a city in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan . By 2018, it belonged to a tribal area Federally , the Khyber Agency , one of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan (FATA). The place is at the beginning of the Khyber Pass in the Hindu Kush Mountains. The city has road and rail links to Peshawar and Landi Kotal , which is close to the border with Afghanistan . The headquarters of the Khyber Rifles are located in Jamrud .
location
Since Jamrud is close to the Khyber Pass, the city and the nearby fort of Jamrod are important both for the trade routes between Central Asia and South Asia and for military strategy. The place is 17 km from Peshawar and is 461 meters above sea level.
history
British time
Jamrud was an area of strategic importance and served as the base for the British Indian Army during the British Raj period . In the military operations from 1878 to 1879, the place became important for the border extension of the British territory towards Afghanistan. The area also formed the basis for the operations of the Tirah Campaign , a religious war of the Afridi , from 1897 to 1898. In 1901, the town, which had 1,848 inhabitants, was the headquarters of the paramilitary border troops, the Khyber Rifles, and the toll station to use the Khyber Pass. Even today, the place is of great strategic importance because of its location on one of the most important routes into Afghanistan.
Others
Today there is a train station for the Chaiber Pass railway line . Depending on the security situation, tourists can travel on this train route to Landi Kotal just before the Afghan border with a steam locomotive. Marble deposits can be found in the vicinity of Jamrud .
Web links
- Jamrūd - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 14, p. 52.
- North-West Frontier Province - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 19, p. 153
- Gazetteer of the Peshawar District 1897-8, revised edition, Lahore: Punjab Government, p. 74.
