Khaur is a town and union council of Pindigheb Tehsil in the Attock District of Punjab. [1]The town is located at 33°14'59N 72°77'19E.[2]
Historically, the town of Khaur was the seat of a Chauhan Rajput principality, but by the 19th Century, the Chauhan had declined to merely the ownership of three villages in addition to Khaur. They still make a significant part of the town’s population. Other than the Chauhans, the town is also home to a the Awan and Kahut tribes. The local language is Patwari dialect of Punjabi, and most of the population is Sunni Muslim. [3]
The town is the site of the first oilfield in Punjab, which operated from 1911 to 1950s. The first commercial success came with the drilling of Khaur-1 by Attock Oil Company in 1915, on a surface anti-cline in the Potwar Basin. Oil was discovered in sands in the lower part of the Miocene formation and a total of 396 shallow wells were drilled in the field from 1915 to 1954. [4]