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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 979 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ZHOB , a valley and See also:

river in the N.E. of See also:Baluchistan. The Zhob is a large valley See also:running from the hills near See also:Ziarat first eastward and then northward parallel to the See also:Indus frontier, till it meets the See also:Gomal river at Khajuri Kach. It thus becomes a strategic See also:line of See also:great importance, as being the shortest route between the See also:North-See also:West Frontier See also:Province and See also:Quetta, and dominates all the See also:Pathan tribes of Baluchistan by cutting between them and Aighanistan. Up to the See also: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 See also:control of the See also:British See also:Government. The Zhob Valley was the See also:scene of punitive British expeditions in 1884 and 189o. In 1890 Zhob was formed into a See also:district or See also:political agency, with its headquarters at Fort See also:Sandeman: pop. (Igor) 3552. As reconstituted in 1903, the district has an See also:area of 9626 sq. m.; pop. (1901) 69,718, mostly Pathans of the See also:Kakar tribe. See See also:Sir T. H. Holdich's See also:Indian Borderland (1901); See also:Bruce's Forward Policy (1900); McFall's With the Zhob See also:Field Force (1895); and Zhob District Gazetteer (Bombay, 5907).

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