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

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province of

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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

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(April 11), the

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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 {{Haripur-geo-stub