Taunsa Sharif ( Urdu , Balochi : تونسه شريف ) is a city in Punjab province of Pakistan . It is the capital of Taunsa District . Taunsa Sharif is primarily inhabited by Balochi speaking and Saraiki Speaking Baloch descent people. It is situated on the bank of River Indus. Taunsa is an agricultural area known for its fertile land and crops.
7-591: Taunsa Sharif is located on the Karachi-Peshawar Highway, which is also known as Indus Highway . It is approximately 120 kilometers from major cities: Multan , 975 kilometres (606 mi)from Karachi , 430 kilometres (270 mi) from Peshawar , and 450 kilometres (280 mi) from Lahore . Taunsa is also the location of one of the headworks on the Indus River called Taunsa Barrage , located 16 kilometres south of Taunsa Sharif city. Taunsa
14-516: Is a 1264 km long two to four-lane national highway that runs along the Indus River in Pakistan connecting the port city of Karachi with the northwestern city of Peshawar via Dera Ghazi Khan . It is part of Pakistan's national highways network and is maintained and operated by National Highway Authority of Pakistan . The Indus Highway passes through the Kohat Tunnel . In 1980,
21-473: Is surrounded by Koh e Sulaiman mountain range. Taunsa Sharif is also the location of one of the notable structures on the Indus River called Taunsa Barrage , located several kilometres south of Taunsa city. It was designated a Ramsar site on March 22, 1996. The Taunsa Barrage was completed in 1958, and it has been identified as the barrage with the highest priority for rehabilitation. It requires urgent measures to avoid severe economic and social impacts on
28-531: The Indus Highway was proposed to provide an alternative and shorter route to the heavily used N-5 and to also aid the development of western Sindh province and eastern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Construction began in 1981 from Kotri and was completed in 1997 in Peshawar . Major cities it links include The Government of Pakistan have planned that a portion of about 300 km will be dualized by
35-596: The lives of millions of poor farmers through interruption of irrigation on two million acres (8,000 km) and drinking water in the rural areas of southern Punjab, benefiting several million farmers. In 2003, the World Bank approved a $ 123 million loan to Pakistan to rehabilitate the Taunsa Barrage on the River Indus whose structure had been damaged owing to soil erosions and old-age. The project
42-618: The year 2023 starting from Dera Ghazi Khan towards Kotri . ECNEC approved a summary regarding the construction of additional two lanes and widening/rehabilitation of the existing two-lane carriageway of the Shikarpur-Rajanpur section of Indus Highway N-55, to be executed by the National Highway Authority (NHA). The project would be sponsored by the Ministry of Communications and Asian Development Bank with
49-651: Was designed to ensure irrigation of the cultivated lands in the area of the Muzaffargarh and Dera Ghazi Khan Tehsil canals, and through the Taunsa-Panjnad Link Canal that supplements the water supply to Panjnad headworks canals. Taunsa Barrage also serves to provide for a variety of fish, which contributes towards fulfilling the food related needs of area. Indus Highway The Indus Highway ( Urdu : شاہراہ سندھ ), also known as National Highway 55 (N-55) ( Urdu : قومی شاہراہ ۵۵ ),
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