The great grammarian Pāṇini, who wrote the Aṣṭādhyāyī, the oldest surviving Sanskrit grammar, is said in some historical sources to have been born in 520 BCE near Attock in Salatura, modern Lahur, on the right bank of the Indus River in the ancient Kambojan/Gandharan territory.

[2] Attock was located on the high road, the Uttarapatha, the principal route of international commerce and communication between the sub-continent, Persia and Imperial China.

The Brahman revival, to which India owes its present form of Hinduism, was already underway in the early years of the fifth century and must have been at its height in the time of Hiuen Tsang.

Samanta Deva and his successors (more accurately designated as the "Hindu Shahis of Kabul"), remained in possession until the time of Mahmud Ghaznavi.

The Gakhars became vital in the hills to the east, but their dominion never extended beyond the Margalla pass and the Khari However, it was again regained in 1400 by Sultan Sikandar and continued under Kashmiri rule until the conquest of Babur.

Akbar the Great built Attock Fort to protect the passage of the Indus, between 1581 and 1583 under the supervision of Khawaja Shamsuddin Khawafi.

Hari Singh Nalwa, the commander-in-chief of the Sikh Empire's army along its border with the Kingdom of Kabul, strengthened Akbar's fort of Attock by building very high and massive bastions at each of its gates.