Bara River
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Bara River is river in Federally Administered Tribal Areas
, Pakistan
. The Bara River enters the Peshawar
of south Jamrud Fort and flows in the North-easterly direction to the Nowshera District
, eventually joining the Kabul River
near camp korona, Akbarpura
. Due to its higher elevation, very limited areas flow through gravity into Bara river.
Federally Administered Tribal Areas
The Federally Administered Tribal Areas are a semi-autonomous tribal region in the northwest of Pakistan, lying between the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, and the neighboring country of Afghanistan. The FATA comprise seven Agencies and six FRs...
, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
. The Bara River enters the Peshawar
Peshawar
Peshawar is the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative center and central economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan....
of south Jamrud Fort and flows in the North-easterly direction to the Nowshera District
Nowshera District
Nowshera is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan - the principal city is Nowshera. Nowshera District is divided into 47 Union Councils and 5 provincial seats....
, eventually joining the Kabul River
Kabul River
Kabul River , the classical Cophes , is a 700 km long river that starts in the Sanglakh Range of the Hindu Kush Mountains in Afghanistan and ends in the Indus River near Attock, Pakistan. It is the main river in eastern Afghanistan and is separated from the watershed of the Helmand by the Unai Pass...
near camp korona, Akbarpura
Akbarpura
Akbarpura, or Akbarpūra, is a village, roughly 15 kilometres northeast of the city of Peshawar, in Nowshera District of northern Pakistan. Akbarpura is named after the Mughal King "Akbar the Great, who camped here before going to Afghanistan...
. Due to its higher elevation, very limited areas flow through gravity into Bara river.
See also
- Bara town
- Bara tehsilBara tehsilBara is a tehsil located in Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan.In the 2000s, Bara achieved some mention in worldwide media with the founding of Lashkar-e-Islam, founded in the area by Mufti Munir Shakir, and later passed to Mangal Bagh, a local driver.- See also :* Bara...