ZHOB

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ZHOB , a valley and river in the N.E. of

Baluchistan

BALUCHISTAN

. The Zhob is a large valley running from the hills near

Ziarat

ZIARAT (" a
Mahommedan
- MAHOMMEDAN
shrine ")

first eastward and then northward parallel to the Indus frontier, till it meets the Gomal river at Khajuri Kach. It thus becomes a strategic line of

great

GREAT

importance, as being the shortest route between the North-West Frontier Province and Quetta, and dominates all the Pathan tribes of

Baluchistan

BALUCHISTAN

by cutting between them and Aighanistan. Up to the year 1884 it was practically unknown to Europeans, but the Zhob Valley Expedition of that year opened it up, and in 1889 the Zhob Valley and Gomal Pass were taken under the

control

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in
English
- ENGLISH
of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

of the British Government. The Zhob Valley was the

scene

SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

of punitive British expeditions in 1884 and 189o. In 1890 Zhob was formed into a

district

DISTRICT

or political agency, with its headquarters at Fort Sandeman: pop. (Igor) 3552. As reconstituted in 1903, the

district

DISTRICT

has an area of 9626 sq. m.; pop. (1901) 69,718, mostly Pathans of the

Kakar

KAKAR

tribe.
See Sir T. H. Holdich's Indian Borderland (1901); Bruce's Forward Policy (1900); McFall's With the Zhob Field Force (1895); and Zhob District Gazetteer (Bombay, 5907).

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