Khaur is a town and union council in Pindigheb Tehsil of Attock District in Punjab Province of

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Community

The major tribes of town are Muradiya(مرادیا)٫ Kahut, Chauhan, Zeldar,

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, Budhwaal and Shipraal while main language is

ghebi Ghebī is a dialect of Hindko spoken in Punjab, Pakistan. In the early 20th century Grierson assigned it to his "North-Eastern Lahnda" group, whereas Shackle writing in 1980 placed it within Hindko "proper" alongside Chacchī and Avāṅkār� ...

dialect of hindko, and most of the population is

Sunni Hanfi Brailvi Sunni Islam () is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims. Its name comes from the word ''Sunnah'', referring to the tradition of Muhammad. The differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims arose from a disagree ...

Muslim.''A Gazetteer of Attock District'', 1931, Part A.

Khaur Oil Field

The town is the first site of an oilfield in

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which operated from 1911 to the 1950s. The first commercial success came with the drilling of Khaur-1 by

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in 1915, on a surface

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in the Potwar Basin. Oil was discovered in sands in the lower part of the

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formation, and a total of 396 shallow wells were drilled in the field from 1915 to 1954.

References

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