Daska
| ڈسکہ | |
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| Daska | |
 ڈسکہ
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| Coordinates: 32°20′N 74°21′E / 32.333°N 74.350°ECoordinates: 32°20′N 74°21′E / 32.333°N 74.350°E | |
| Country |
 Pakistan
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| Province | Punjab |
| District | Sialkot |
| Tehsil | Daska |
| Elevation | 217 m (712 ft) |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 501,000 |
| Time zone | PST (UTC+5) |
| Calling code | 052 |
| Number of towns | 1 |
| Postal Code 051010 | |
Daska (Urdu: ڈسکہ), is a growing industrial city with a population of around 501,000 in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The town is the capital of Daska Tehsil one of four tehsils of Sialkot District. It is located at 32°19'60N 74° 20' 60E.
The name Daska is said to be a distortion of "Dah Kos". The term "Dah" is the Persian word for the numeral ten, and "Kos" refers to a unit of distance used in Mughal times. The town was situated some ten "Kos" between neighbouring Gujranwala, Sialkot, Pasrur, Wazirabad and Sambrial, hence Dah Kos became Das Kos in the local Punjabi language, later shortened to Daska.
The principal clans of Daska and its environs include the Mughal, Kashmiri, Sethi, Bajwa, Cheema, Baryar, Dhillon, Sahi, Maher, Ghumman, Nagra, Waraich, Wahla, Basra, Kang, Goraya, Mew, Khokhar, Bhatti, Minhas, Rana, mahar, Rajput, Randhawa and Sandhu. Many of the villages surrounding Daska are also named after Jatt and Rajput clans such as Adamkey Cheema, Mundayki, and Goraya . The Jatts are said to have originated from Scythian invaders from Central Asia. Some people have wrongly confused Jats with Chaudries which is simply an honorific given to land owners.
An old Suryavanshi Kshatriyas tribe Gurjar now called Gujjar is also a part of population of Daska. Gujjar population increased in Daska after 1947 when Muslim Gujjar community migrated from eastern Punjab, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of India. Many Gujjar clans are found in Daska, including Khatana, Kasana, Chaichie, Poswal, Maelu, Chouhan etc.
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