Tank District

Tank

ٹانک

The settled-district town that served as winter headquarters of the Political Agent for South Waziristan.

Verified source
Tank

Gazetteer & History

Tank was the administrative hinge between the settled districts and the tribal tracts: allowances were paid there, jirgas were convened there, and its bazaar handled much of the seasonal trade descending from the hills. Census and settlement reports give it a fuller documentary record than most places in this archive.

Sources

  1. 1.Gazetteer of the Dera Ismail Khan District, Tank tahsil
  2. 2.Census of India 1931, Volume XV: NWFPIndia Office Records