Question

Tochi, Gilgit and Hunza are tributaries of _____________
A) Ganga
B) Indus
C) Brahmaputra
D) Yamuna

Answer 1

Hint:
Its major right-bank offshoots are the Shyok, Gilgit, Kabul, Gomal, and Kurram rivers. Originating in a mountain mainspring and nursed with glaciers and rivers in the Himalayan, Karakoram, and Hindu Kush ranges, the river helps the ecologies of moderate forests, plains, and parched countryside.

Complete answer:
The Indus River is one of the key rivers of the Indo-Gangetic Plain in the Indian subcontinent. It streams through China (western Tibet), India, and Pakistan. Initiating in the Tibetan Plateau in the locality of Lake Manasarovar, the river runs a sequence through the Ladakh section of India towards Gilgit-Baltistan and then streams in a southerly track along the whole distance of Pakistan to join into the Arabian Sea near the port city of Karachi in Sindh. The Indus is the lengthiest river in Pakistan. The river has an overall drainage zone surpassing 11,65,000 sq. km. Its appraised yearly stream is around 243 cu. km, double that of the Nile and 3 times that of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers combined, making it one of the major rivers in the world in terms of the average yearly stream. Its left-bank branch in Ladakh is the Zanskar River, and its left-bank branch in the grasslands is the Panjnad River which itself has 5 main branches, specifically the Chenab, Jhelum, Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej rivers.

Thus, option (B) is correct.

Note:
The northern share of the Indus Valley, with its branches, forms the Punjab area of South Asia, whereas the lower course of the river ends in a huge estuary in the southern Sindh sphere of Pakistan. The river has factually been significant to numerous cultures of the area. The 3rd millennium BC observed the growth of a chief urban development of the Bronze Age. During the 2nd millennium BC, the Punjab area was stated in the Rigveda chants as Sapta Sindhu and in the Avesta spiritual manuscripts as Hapta Hindu (both names insinuating "seven rivers").