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About Harnai
Harnai (Pashto: هرنای, Urdu: ہرنائی) town serves as the administrative headquarters of Harnai District in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. Until 2007, the town was in Sibi District.
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History
The old name of Harnai was Zawara, meaning "interior of the Earth" in Local Tareeno Language. Some people still pronounced Harnai as Zawara. The name Harnai refers to an influential Hindu personality, Harnam Das, supposed founder of Harnai town, the capital of Harnai District. The town is quite close to Loralai, Ziarat, Sibi, Mastung and Quetta. Harnai is surrounded by imposing hills on all sides. The encircling hill ranges have the resounding names of 'Khalifat' and 'Zarghun'. Loe sar Nekan (Zarghoon Gar) with an elevation of 3578 Meters is the highest mountain peak in the province of Baluchistan in the southwest of Pakistan is also situated in District Harnai. Harnai proper has a population of about 100,000. The majority of the population of Harnai are Tareens and they mostly speak Tareeno a unique dialect of Pashto, which is considered by some linguists to be distinctive enough to be classified as its own language. According to linguist Prods Oktor Skjaervo: "The Pashto area split into two dialect groups at a pre-literary period, represented today on the one hand by all the dialects of modern Pashto and on the other by Tareeno and by archaic remains in other southeast dialects."
From the History section of Harnai on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Getting there and nearby towns
Sibi Airport (SBQ) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 59 km away.
- Ziarat 37 km northwest, about 37 min by car
- Alik Ghund 59 km northwest, about 59 min by car
- Duki 61 km east, about 1 h by car
- Sibi 62 km south, about 1 h by car
- Mach 64 km southwest, about 1 h by car
- Loralai 70 km northeast, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Dadhar 75 km south, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Khadan Khak 76 km north, about 1 h 15 min by car
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