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Attock District (Urdu: ضِلع اٹک‎), is a district in the north-west Punjab Province of Pakistan. The district was created in April 1904[1] by the merger of Talagang Tehsil in the Jhelum District with the Pindigheb, Fatehjang and Attock tehsils from Rawalpindi District of the Punjab province of British India. Emperor Akbar the Great, the grandson of Babar, recognizing the strategic importance of this area, in 1581 built his famous Attock Fort complex here. The fall of the Mughal Empire in the 18th century saw the rise of Hindu Maratha state and Sikhs in Punjab and Durrani Afghans to the west. Once again Attock became a battle ground between two contending powers. Maratha Peshwa's brother Raghunathrao won Attock and flagged Hindu dominance over this area in 1758. But in the Third Battle of Panipat the Marathas lost to Ahmead Shah Abdali and lost control of this region. The British finally ended the feud by subjugating both Sikhs and Afghans in the 19th century..