Tarbela () or Torbela () is one of the 44
union councils, administrative subdivision, of
Haripur District
Haripur District (Hindko, ) is a district in the Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Before obtaining the status of a district in 1991, Haripur was a tehsil of Abbottabad District Its headquarters are the city of Haripur. Accor ...
in the
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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province of
Pakistan
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. The name comes from the words ''tor'' (Pashto for "black") and ''bela'' (Punjabi/Hindko for "forest").
Khalabat township is divided into four sectors: Sectors 1 and 2 are called Tarbela union; sectors 3 and 4 are called Khalabat union council.
Nearby
Tarbela Dam
Tarbela Dam (, ) is an embankment dam, earth-filled dam along the Indus River in Pakistan, Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It is mainly located in Haripur Tehsil. It is about from the city of Topi, Pakistan, Swabi KPK, northwest of Isla ...
got its name from this Tarbela.
Festival
On 1st
Baisakh (April 11), the
Hindu
Hindus (; ; also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma. Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pp. 35–37 Historically, the term has also be ...
residents in the vicinity and of the
Hazara plain bathed in the
Indus River
The Indus ( ) is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayas, Himalayan river of South Asia, South and Central Asia. The river rises in mountain springs northeast of Mount Kailash in the Western Tibet region of China, flows northw ...
.
The assembly is religious and lasts for two days.
References
Union councils of Haripur District
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