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Chitarwata Post

Place in Punjab, Pakistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ5102208 ↗
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Chitarwata Post is a British era post of the Border military police in the Sulaiman Mountains in Punjab, Pakistan. It is located at the confluence of lar and bar mountain streams which form Vehowa river downstream of Chitarwata. Chitarwata Post is also the place where boundaries of three provinces meet, Punjab, Balochistan and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 56-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Chitarwata, Post and Place can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as place in Punjab, Pakistan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chitarwata Post” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.