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Panjnad
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Panjnad river, Pakistan: see Sutlej .
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright 2008 Columbia University Press
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; ... Multan, the Jhelum, Chenab and Ravi have combined. Once again, embankments had to be blasted to save the city; and again by Panjnad, where the Sutlej joins the great flow. By mid-week, the floodwaters were moving south towards the province of Sindh; there ...
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; ... over 25 universities along our route. June is the hottest time in Pakistan. We left Lahore to travel south where we stopped at Panjnad -- the confluence of the five rivers of the Punjab. Panch in Urdu makes five. There is a lovely resthouse where we stayed until ...
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Sutlej River
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
... province of Pakistan. It forms 65 mi (105 km) of the Indo-Pakistani border. It joins the Chenab River in Pakistan to become the Panjnad, the link between the Five Rivers and the Indus . Its middle course is used extensively for irrigation. Sutlej River Sutlej ...
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Sutlej
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
... continuing into Pakistan, it is joined by the Chenab River (which received the Jhelum and Ravi rivers). The combined stream, the Panjnad, channels the collected waters of all five rivers of the Punjab into the Indus River. The Sutlej is extensively used for irrigation ...
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Punjab
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
... east. The five rivers that give Punjab its name, the Jhelum, the Chenab, the Ravi, the Sutlej, and the Beas, merge to form the Panjnad, which flows into the Indus. Except in the north, where there are forested mountains yielding salt and coal, the Punjab is ...
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