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___MASK90___ (, or ), officially the Republic of ___MASK90___ (" Çumhuriji Toçikiston "), is a mountainous , landlocked country in Central Asia with an estimated 8 million people in 2013 , and an area of . It is bordered by Afghanistan to the south , Uzbekistan to the west , ___MASK8___ to the north , and ___MASK20___ to the east . Pakistan lies to the south , separated by the narrow Wakhan Corridor . Traditional homelands of Tajik people included present - day ___MASK90___ , Afghanistan and Uzbekistan . An Islamic republic is the name given to several states in countries ruled by Islamic laws , including the Islamic Republics ___MASK2___ ___MASK91___ , Iran , Afghanistan , and Mauritania . ___MASK91___ first adopted the title under the constitution ___MASK2___ 1956 . Mauritania adopted it on 28 November 1958 . Iran adopted it after the 1979 Iranian Revolution that overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty . Afghanistan adopted it in 1992 ( in 1996  2001 the Taliban was ruling as an Islamic emirate ( monarchy )) upon Jamiat - e Islami seizing capital Kabul from the Communists . Despite the similar name the countries differ greatly in their governments and laws . Mianwali Tehsil ( Urdu :        ) , is an administrative subdivision ( tehsil ) ___MASK2___ Mianwali District in the Punjab province ___MASK2___ ___MASK91___ . The tehsil is subdivided into 28 Union Councils - four ___MASK2___ which form the capital Mianwali . ___MASK99___ ( abbreviated as KP ; ) is one ___MASK2___ the four provinces ___MASK2___ ___MASK91___ , located in the northwestern region ___MASK2___ the country . It was formerly known as North - West Frontier Province ( NWFP ) and commonly called " Sarhad ", which in Urdu means " frontier ." Its provincial capital and largest city is Peshawar , followed by Mardan . It shares borders with the Federally Administered Tribal Areas to the west ; ___MASK58___  Baltistan to the northeast ; ___MASK10___ , Islamabad and Punjab to the east and southeast . ___MASK99___ " does not " share a border with Balochistan , which lies to its ___MASK42___ . ___MASK99___ also shares an international border with Afghanistan , connected through the Khyber Pass . Mianwali is the capital city ___MASK2___ Mianwali District , ___MASK91___ . In November 1901 , present day tehsils ___MASK2___ Mianwali , Isa Khel and Piplan [ now Liaqat Abad ] wwere separated from Bannu District [ KPK ] and Bhakkar and ___MASK49___ from Dera Ismail Khan District and clubbed together to form a new district named ' Mianwal ' i with its headquarters in ___MASK88___ . The municipal committee was founded in December 1993 and has remained operational since then Mianwali is border district between KPK and Punjab .. The ___MASK26___ ( from " rj ", literally , " rule " in Hindustani ) was the rule ___MASK2___ the British Crown in the ___MASK66___ subcontinent between 1858 and 1947 . The rule is also called Crown rule in ___MASK30___ , or direct rule in ___MASK30___ . The region under British control was commonly called ___MASK30___ in contemporaneous usage , and included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom , which were collectively called British ___MASK30___ , and those ruled by indigenous rulers , but under British tutelage or paramountcy , and called the princely states . The resulting political union was also called the ___MASK66___ Empire and after 1876 issued passports under that name . As ___MASK30___ , it was a ___MASK2___ the League ___MASK2___ Nations , a participating nation in the Summer Olympics in 1900 , 1920 , 1928 , 1932 , and 1936 , and a founding member ___MASK2___ the United Nations in ___MASK4___ in 1945 . ___MASK12___ (; ' ), officially the Sultanate ___MASK2___ ___MASK12___ , is an Arab country on the southeastern coast ___MASK2___ the Arabian Peninsula . Holding a strategically important position at the mouth ___MASK2___ the Persian Gulf , the nation is bordered by the United Arab Emirates to the ___MASK21___ , Saudi Arabia to the west , and Yemen to the ___MASK42___ , and shares marine borders with Iran and Pakistan . The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea on the southeast and the Gulf ___MASK2___ ___MASK12___ on the northeast . The Madha and Musandam exclaves are surrounded by the UAE on their land borders , with the Strait ___MASK2___ Hormuz ( which it shares with Iran ) and Gulf ___MASK2___ ___MASK12___ forming Musandam ' s coastal boundaries . Western Asia , ___MASK98___ Asia , Southwestern Asia or ___MASK42___ Asia is the westernmost subregion of Asia . The concept is in limited use , as it significantly overlaps with the Middle East ( or Near East ), the main difference being the exclusion of Egypt ( which would be counted as part of North Africa ). The term is sometimes used for the purposes of grouping countries in statistics . The Arabian Sea is a region ___MASK2___ the ___MASK32___ ___MASK66___ Ocean bounded on the north by Pakistan and Iran , on the west by northeastern ___MASK9___ and the Arabian Peninsula , and on the east by India . Historically the sea has been known by other names including the Erythraean Sea and the Persian Sea . Its total area is and its maximum depth is . The Gulf ___MASK2___ Aden is in the southwest , connecting the Arabian Sea to the Red Sea through the strait ___MASK2___ Bab - el - Mandeb , and the Gulf ___MASK2___ Oman is in the northwest , connecting it to the Persian Gulf . A federal parliamentary republic refers to a federation ___MASK2___ states with a republican form ___MASK2___ government that is , more or less , dependent upon the confidence ___MASK2___ parliaments at both the national and subnational levels . It is a combination ___MASK2___ the federal republic and the parliamentary republic . The ___MASK78___ Corridor ( alternatively Vakhan Corridor , or ___MASK78___ ) is the narrow strip of territory in northeastern Afghanistan that extends to ___MASK20___ and separates Tajikistan from Pakistan . The corridor , wedged between the Pamirs to the north and the Karakoram range to the south , is about long and wide . ___MASK7___ Asia or Middle Asia is the core region ___MASK2___ the Asian continent and stretches from the Caspian Sea in the ___MASK98___ to ___MASK20___ in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north . It is also colloquially referred to as " the ' stans " ( as the six countries generally considered to be within the region all have names ending with the Persian suffix "- stan ", meaning " land ___MASK2___ ") and is within the scope ___MASK2___ the wider Eurasian continent . A parliamentary republic is a republic that operates under a parliamentary system ___MASK2___ government where the executive branch ( the government ) derives its legitimacy from and is accountable to the legislature ( the parliament ). There are a number ___MASK2___ variations ___MASK2___ parliamentary republics . ___MASK89___ have a clear differentiation between the head ___MASK2___ government and the head ___MASK2___ state , with the head ___MASK2___ government holding real power , much like constitutional monarchies . Some have combined the roles ___MASK2___ head ___MASK2___ state and head ___MASK2___ government , much like presidential systems , but with a dependency upon parliamentary power . The ___MASK59___ Sultanate was a Muslim kingdom based mostly in ___MASK59___ that stretched over large parts ___MASK2___ the ___MASK66___ subcontinent for 320 years ( 1206  1526 ). Five dynasties ruled over ___MASK59___ Sultanate sequentially , the first four ___MASK2___ which were ___MASK2___ Turkic origin : the Mamluk dynasty ( 1206  90 ); the Khilji dynasty ( 1290  1320 ); the Tughlaq dynasty ( 1320  1414 ); the Sayyid dynasty ( 1414  51 ); and the Afghan Lodi dynasty ( 1451  1526 ). ___MASK91___ ( or ), officially the Islamic Republic of ___MASK91___ , is a federal parliamentary republic in South Asia on crossroads of Central Asia and Western Asia . It is the sixth - ___MASK89___ populous country with a population exceeding 200 million people . It is the 36th largest country in the world in terms of area with an area covering . ___MASK91___ has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by ___MASK30___ to the east , Afghanistan to the west , Iran to the ___MASK42___ and ___MASK20___ in the far northeast respectively . It is separated from Tajikistan by Afghanistan ' s narrow Wakhan Corridor in the north , and also shares a maritime border with Oman . A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city . The size definition for what constitutes a " town " varies considerably in different parts ___MASK2___ the world . ___MASK94___ ( ___MASK41___ / Dari : , " Afnistn "), officially the Islamic Republic ___MASK2___ ___MASK94___ , is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia . It has a population ___MASK2___ approximately 32 million , making it the 42nd ___MASK89___ populous country in the world . It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and east ; Iran in the west ; Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan , and ___MASK90___ in the north ; and ___MASK20___ in the far northeast . Its territory covers , making it the 41st largest country in the world . ___MASK41___ (; " Pax  t " ), also known in older literature as Afghn or Pahn , is the South - Central Asian language ___MASK2___ the Pashtuns . Its speakers are called Pashtuns or Pukhtuns and sometimes Afghans or Pathans . It is an Eastern Iranian language , belonging to the Indo - European family . ___MASK41___ is one ___MASK2___ the two official languages ___MASK2___ Afghanistan , and it is the second - largest regional language ___MASK2___ ___MASK91___ , mainly spoken in the west and ___MASK21___ ___MASK2___ the country . ___MASK91___ ' s Federally Administered Tribal Areas ( FATA ) are almost 100 % ___MASK41___ - speaking , while it is the majority language ___MASK2___ the province ___MASK2___ Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the northern districts ___MASK2___ Balochistan . ___MASK41___ is the main language among the Pashtun diaspora around the world . The total number ___MASK2___ ___MASK41___ - speakers is estimated to be 45  60 million people worldwide . A village is a clustered human settlement or community , larger than a ___MASK6___ but smaller than a town , with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand . Though often located in rural areas , the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods . Villages are normally permanent , with fixed dwellings ; however , transient villages can occur . Further , the dwellings ___MASK2___ a village are fairly close to one another , not scattered broadly over the landscape , as a dispersed settlement . ___MASK43___ (, also , ; ' ), also known as Persia , officially the Islamic Republic ___MASK2___ ___MASK43___ (' ), is a sovereign state in Western Asia . It is bordered to the ___MASK21___ by Armenia , the " de facto " Nagorno - Karabakh Republic , and ___MASK79___ ; to the north by the Caspian Sea ; to the northeast by Turkmenistan ; to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan ; to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf ___MASK2___ Oman ; and to the west by ___MASK51___ and Iraq . Comprising a land area ___MASK2___ , it is the second - largest country in the Middle East and the 18th - largest in the world . With 82 . 8 million inhabitants , ___MASK43___ is the world ' s 17th - most - populous country . It is the only country with both a Caspian Sea and an Indian Ocean coastline . The country ' s central location in Eurasia and Western Asia , and its proximity to the Strait ___MASK2___ Hormuz , make it ___MASK2___ great geostrategic importance . Tehran is the country ' s capital and largest city , as well as its leading economic center . The ___MASK35___ ___MASK2___ Oman or Sea ___MASK2___ Makran or Sea ___MASK2___ Oman (" aldj Umn "; in Balochi :    in " Khaleej Oman ") is a strait ( and not an actual gulf ) that connects the Arabian Sea with the Strait ___MASK2___ Hormuz , which then runs to the Persian ___MASK35___ . It borders ___MASK91___ and Iran on the north , Oman on the south , and the United Arab Emirates on the west . A pargana ( Hindi : ), or parganah , also spelt pergunnah during the ___MASK53___ of the Sultanate period , Mughal times and British Raj , is a former administrative unit of the Indian subcontinent , used primarily , but not exclusively , by the Muslim kingdoms . many villages together made a pargana . for example Pune pargana . The Deshmukh and the Deshpande were the watandar officers of the pargana . The deshmukh was the chief of the Patils in pargana . The deshmukh did at pargana level , what Patil did at village level . The deshpande were the chief of all kulkarnis in the pargana . Deshpande did at pargana level , what Kulkarnies did at village level . Pune pargana was a big pargana . It consisted of 290 villages . There were 64 villages in the Chakan pargana . A tehsil ( also known as a ___MASK39___ or taluka ) is an administrative division ___MASK2___ some countries ___MASK2___ South Asia . It is an area ___MASK2___ land with a city or town that serves as its administrative ___MASK92___ , with possible additional towns , and usually a number ___MASK2___ villages . The terms in ___MASK30___ have replaced earlier geographical terms , such as " pargana ", " pergunnah " and " thannah ", used under the Delhi Sultanate and the British Raj . ___MASK30___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK30___ (" Bhrat Gaarjya "), is a country in South Asia . It is the seventh - largest country by area , the second - most populous country ( with over 1 . 2 billion people ), and the most populous democracy in the world . It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south , the Arabian Sea on the ___MASK42___ , and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast . It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west ; ___MASK20___ , Nepal , and Bhutan to the northeast ; and Myanmar ( Burma ) and Bangladesh to the east . In the Indian Ocean , ___MASK30___ is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives . ___MASK30___ ' s Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia . Its capital is New Delhi ; other metropolises include Mumbai , Kolkata , Chennai , Bangalore , Hyderabad and Ahmedabad . ___MASK20___ , officially the People ' s Republic of ___MASK20___ ( PRC ), is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia . With a population of over 1 . 381 billion , it is the world ' s most populous country . The state is governed by the Communist Party of ___MASK20___ , and its capital is Beijing . It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces , five autonomous regions , four direct - controlled municipalities ( Beijing , Tianjin , Shanghai , and Chongqing ), and two mostly self - governing special administrative regions ( Hong Kong and Macau ), and claims sovereignty over Taiwan . The country ' s major urban areas include Shanghai , Guangzhou , Beijing , Chongqing , Shenzhen , Tianjin and Hong Kong . ___MASK20___ is a great power and a major regional power within Asia , and has been characterized as a potential superpower . Islam (' ;) is a religion articulated by the Quran , a text considered by its adherents to be the verbatim word ___MASK2___ God ('), and , for the vast majority ___MASK2___ adherents , the teachings and normative example ( called the " sunnah ", composed ___MASK2___ accounts called " hadith ") ___MASK2___ Muhammad ( 570  8 June 632 CE ). It is the world ' s second - largest religion and the fastest - growing major religion in the world , with over 1 . 7 billion followers or 23 % ___MASK2___ the global population , known as Muslims . Islam is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion that upholds that God is one and incomparable and that the purpose ___MASK2___ existence is to worship God . Muslims consider Muhammad to be the last prophet ___MASK2___ God . An administrative division , unit , entity , area or region , also referred to as a subnational entity , constituent unit , or country subdivision , is a portion ___MASK2___ a country or other region delineated for the purpose ___MASK2___ administration . Administrative divisions are granted a certain degree ___MASK2___ autonomy and are usually required to manage themselves through their own local governments . Countries are divided up into these smaller units to make managing their land and the affairs ___MASK2___ their people easier . For example , a country may be divided into provinces , which , in turn , are divided into counties , which , in turn , may be divided in whole or in part into municipalities ; and so on . ___MASK95___ Asia or Southern Asia is a term used to represent the ___MASK13___ ___MASK2___ the Asian continent , which comprises the sub - Himalayan SAARC countries and , for some authorities , adjoining countries to the ___MASK98___ and ___MASK29___ . Topographically , it is dominated by the ___MASK66___ Plate , which rises above sea level as Nepal and northern parts ___MASK2___ ___MASK30___ situated ___MASK95___ ___MASK2___ the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush . ___MASK95___ Asia is bounded on the ___MASK95___ by the ___MASK66___ Ocean and on land ( clockwise , from ___MASK98___ ) by West Asia , Central Asia , East Asia , and Southeast Asia . The Mianwali ___MASK60___ ( ___MASK41___ ,), is a district in the ___MASK21___ of Punjab province , Pakistan . It is border district between Province of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa . People of Mianwali understand and share the culture of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa .