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Attabad Lake

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Attabad Lake also known as Gojal lake(عطا آباد جھیل), is a lake in Gojal Valley, Hunza, Pakistan that was created in January 2010 by a landslide dam. [1]

26 relations: Aga Khan, Attabad, Burushaski, China–Pakistan Economic Corridor, Dawn News, Domba, Gilgit-Baltistan, Gojal, Gulmit, Hunza River, Hunza Valley, Karakoram Highway, Karimabad, Gilgit-Baltistan, Landslide, Landslide dam, Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan, Punjab, Pakistan, Red Lake (Romania), Sarez Lake, Shehbaz Sharif, Tangjiashan Lake, Tehsil, Wakhi people, Yousaf Raza Gillani, 2010 Pakistan floods.

Aga Khan

Aga Khan (آقاخان; also transliterated as Aqa Khan and Agha Khan) is a title used also as a name by the Imam of the Nizari Ismailis, whose current holder is the 49th Imam (1957–present), Prince Shah Karim Al Husseini Aga Khan IV (b. 1936).

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Attabad

Attabad (عطا آباد), also spelt Atabad, is a town in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan.

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Burushaski

Burushaski (بروشسکی) is a language isolate spoken by Burusho people who reside almost entirely in northern Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, with a few hundred speakers in northern Jammu and Kashmir, India.

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China–Pakistan Economic Corridor

China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (پاكستان-چین اقتصادی راہداری; also known by the acronym CPEC) is a collection of infrastructure projects that are currently under construction throughout Pakistan.

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Dawn News

Dawn News is one of Pakistan's 24-hour Urdu news channel.

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Domba

The Domba or Dom (Sanskrit ḍoma, dialectally also Domaki, Dombo, Domra, Domaka, Dombar, Dombari and variants) are an ethnic group, or groups, scattered across India.

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Gilgit-Baltistan

Gilgit-Baltistan, formerly known as the Northern Areas, is the northernmost administrative territory in Pakistan.

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Gojal

Gojal, also known as Upper Hunza, is a valley situated in the far north of Pakistan.

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Gulmit

Gulmit (Wakhi/Urdu), also known as Gul-e-Gulmit, is a town that serves headquarters of the Gojal, also known as Upper Hunza, in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan.

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Hunza River

Hunza River (دریائے ہنزہ) is the principal river of Hunza in Gilgit–Baltistan,Pakistan.

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Hunza Valley

Hunza (Burushaski: ہنزو, Wakhi, and ہنزہ) is a mountainous valley in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan.

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Karakoram Highway

The N-35 or National Highway 35 (قومی شاہراہ 35), known more popularly as the Karakoram Highway (شاہراہ قراقرم) and China-Pakistan Friendship Highway, is a 1300 km national highway in Pakistan which extends from Hasan Abdal in Punjab province of Pakistan to the Khunjerab Pass in Gilgit-Baltistan, where it crosses into China and becomes China National Highway 314.

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Karimabad, Gilgit-Baltistan

Karimabad (كريم آباد), formerly known as Baltit, is the capital of Hunza Valley, in the Gilgit-Baltistan province of Pakistan.

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Landslide

The term landslide or, less frequently, landslip, refers to several forms of mass wasting that include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, deep-seated slope failures, mudflows and debris flows.

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Landslide dam

A landslide dam or barrier lake is a natural damming of a river by some kind of landslides, such as debris flows and rock avalanches, or by volcanic eruptions.

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Nawaz Sharif

Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu/میاں محمد نواز شریف, born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani business magnate and former politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms, all of the three terms were unsuccessful.

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Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

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Punjab, Pakistan

Punjab (Urdu, Punjabi:, panj-āb, "five waters") is Pakistan's second largest province by area, after Balochistan, and its most populous province, with an estimated population of 110,012,442 as of 2017.

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Red Lake (Romania)

Lacul Roșu (Lacul Roșu, Gyilkos-tó – "Killer Lake") is the largest barrier lake, in the Eastern Carpathians chain in Harghita County, Romania.

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Sarez Lake

Sarez Lake is a lake in Rushon District of Gorno-Badakhshan province, Tajikistan.

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Shehbaz Sharif

Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif (born 23 September 1951) is a Pakistani politician who is the current President of the Pakistan Muslim League-N. He recently served as the Chief Minister of Punjab from June 2013 to May 2018 which was his third term.

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Tangjiashan Lake

Tangjiashan Lake (literally "Tang's Mountain landslide dam-created lake") is a landslide dam-created lake on the Jian River, which was formed by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

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Tehsil

A tehsil (also known as a mandal, taluk, taluq or taluka) is an administrative division of some countries of South Asia.

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Wakhi people

The Wakhi people, or Khik (called Gujali in Gojal, Pakistan), are an ethnic group in the Wakhan of today's Badakhshan region located in northeastern Afghanistan and southeastern Tajikistan.

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Yousaf Raza Gillani

Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani also spelled Gilani (Urdu:;; born 9 July 1952) is a Pakistani politician who served as 19th Prime Minister of Pakistan from 25 March 2008 until his retroactive disqualification and ouster by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on 26 April 2012.

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2010 Pakistan floods

The floods in Pakistan began in late July 2010, resulting from heavy monsoon rains in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab and, Balochistan regions of Pakistan, which affected the Indus River basin.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attabad_Lake

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