Chachh
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Chach چھچھ |
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 Chach
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| Coordinates: 33°53′00″N 72°22′00″E / 33.88333°N 72.36667°E | |
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 Pakistan
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| Province | Punjab |
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| Time zone | PST (UTC+5) |
| • Summer (DST) | +6 (UTC) |
Chhachh or Chach (Punjabi and Urdu: چھچھ ) is a region consisting of an alluvial plain extending from of Punjab, Pakistan, southwest of Topi and Swabi. It is bounded on the north and west by the Indus river and is about 19 miles (31 km) long (from east to west) and 9 miles (14 km) broad. Percolation from the Indus makes the area extremely fertile, and it was the most fertile area of Rawalpindi Division. The population of the area is primarily made up of Hindko and Pashto speakers.
Chhachh is 7 km (4 mi) off the Pindi-Peshawar GT road (northwards). Chach is at the edge of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa - Punjab border. It is 20.4 km from Attock city and 22.9 km from Topi Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
Chach is a plain which rolls from the Hazara-Gandhara Hills south to Kamra, and from east of the Indus to the broken lands near Lawrencepur. It is an alluvial plain in the north of the District and tehsil of Attock, Punjab, lying between 33°53' and 33° 59' N. and 72° 22' and 72°44' E.
The name "Chhachh" means "a bowl type container" according to the native language, which was used to drink lassi by the locals. Geographically, the surface of the Chhachh region is like a bowl. Chhachh has been identified with the Chukhsa or Chuskha country of the Taxila copperplate inscription. In the Muslim period it was known as Chhachh-Hazara, or Takht Hazara, "below Hazara", or "Plain of Hazara". Hazro is n this plain.
A small percentage of the population of Chhachh has Pashtun roots and belongs to Qais Abdur Rashid. They are mostly descendants of the tribes of Durrani, Tanoli, Alizai, Yousafzai, Malizai, Kakar, Umar Zai, (Khan Khail), Chechi, Jadoon, Tareen, Chhachi, Tahirkheli, Sadozai, Khattak and Barakzai. They arrived in the area at around 1000 AD as part of the army of the Ghaznavid Empire and made it their permanent home after defeating the Hindu confederation near Hazro.
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