- Gomal River
Gomal River ( _ur. دریائے گومل) is a river in
Afghanistan andPakistan , with its headwaters in the south-east ofGhazni .The headwater springs of the Gomal's main branch merge near by the fort of
Babakarkol inKatawaz , a district inhabited primarily byKharoti and Suleiman KhelPashtuns . The Gomal's second branch, the "Second Gomal", joins the main channel about 14 miles below its source [MacGregor, Charles Metcalfe (1871) "Central Asia, pt. 2: A Contribution Toward the Better Knowledge of the Topography, Ethnology, Resources, and History of Afghanistan" Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, [http://worldcat.org/oclc/48604589 OCLC 48604589] reprinted by Barbican Publishing Co., Petersfield, England, in 1995, p. 308] . The Gomal flows southeast through eastern Ghilzai country for approximately 110 miles before it merges with theZhob River , its major tributary, nearKhajuri Kach . [MacGregor, pp. 308-9] "Gazetteer of Afghanistan VI" (Farah), fourth ed., Calcutta, 1908, p. 238] It is about 100 miles from the Zhob River junction to theIndus River junction.Within
Pakistan , the Gomal river surroundsSouth Waziristan agency, forms the boundary between theNorth-West Frontier Province and Balochistan. From South Waziristan , the river enters the Gomal Valley in district Tank NWFP at a place known as Girdavi, Murtuza which is inhabited by the Miani tribe. It is mainly here that the water of Gomal is used to cultivate the lands in Gomal Valley through Zam system (Rod Kohi). The river passes then through theDamaan plain inKulachi Tehsil and later on throughDera Ismail Khan Tehsil, It then joins theIndus River 20 miles south of Dera Ismail Khan.Notes
External links
*http://www.khyber.org/places/2005/TheGomalRiver.shtml
ee also
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Gomal Pass
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