Kharan District

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district = Kharan District
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nazim = Shoukat Ali
naib_nazim = Sardar Gul Hassan
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tehsils = 5
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region = Balochistan

Kharan (Urdu: خاران ) is a district in the north-west of Balochistan province of Pakistan. [ [http://www.nrb.gov.pk/lg_election/union.asp?district=88&dn=Kharan Tehsils & Unions in the District of Kharan - Government of Pakistan] ] Kharan was notified as a district in 1951 and the Deputy Commissioner’s office started functioning on March 15th 1952. It is one of the oldest districts of Balochistan. The Deputy Commissioner directly supervises all activities in the district. He also supervises the functions of all Departments through the district-level heads of these Departments. To facilitate the administrative services, the district is divided into four tehsils i.e. Kharan, Basima and Kashkhel, eleven Patwar circles and 394 Mauzas (villages). Pakistan's second nuclear test were performed in the Kharan desert in 1998 May 30 of a miniaturised device yielding 60 percent of the Ras Koh Hills tests [http://www.defencejournal.com/2000/june/chagai.htm When Mountains Move – The Story of Chagai] RAI MUHAMMAD SALEH AZAM, defencejournal.com] .

Administration

The district is administratively subdivided into the following tehsils:

* Besima
* Kharan
* Mashkel
* Nag
* Wasuk

Population

The population of Kharan district was estimated to be over 250,000 in 2005. Over 99% of the people of the area are Muslims. The main Baloch tribes of the district are Nausherwani and Mengal.

ee also

* Kharan
* Qila Ladgasht
* Nausherwani tombs

References