Attock Fort
Attock Fort is located at a distance of approximately 80 kilometres from the capital city of Islamabad at the confluence of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Attock Fort was formed at Attock Khurd during the reign of Akbar the Great from 1581 to 1583, following the supervision of Khawaja Shamsuddin Khawafi to shield the entrance of the River Indus. It highlighted a notable role in Afghan-Sikh Wars through the Battle of Attock. Today it is found between Peshawar Road on one side and the River Indus on the other. It was Akber's cumbersome fort, with a border of about two and a half kilometers records from the sixteenth century because of concern at Kabul. Akber installed a base here and set up a community of river men to partner the ships.
Their village is on the river shore below the fortress.When the British came, they established the Attock fortress and made the city the district headquarters and cantonment. It is still a necessary military installation for the Pakistan Army, and visitors cannot access it or do photography. Throughout the dry season, Mughals passed the river across a bridge of boats, which the British later berthed to landings on either side. Not long after this British engineers unsuccessfully tried to tunnel beneath the river. After this failure, they constructed a road and rail platform in 1883 that worked until the end of the 1970s when the latest bridge was finished near the fortress that conserves precious minutes on the course to Peshawar.
