Gomal River is a river in Afghanistan and Pakistan and its headwaters is in the southeast of Ghazni. The headwater springs of the Gomal`s main branch converge near by the fort of Babakarkol in Katawaz. Clans like Kharoti and Suleiman Khel Pashtuns primarily inhabit this district. The Gomal`s second branch, the "Second Gomal", merges with the main channel about 14 miles below its source. The Gomal flows southeast through eastern Ghilzai country for approximately 110 miles before it merges with the Zhob River, it major tributary, near Khajuri Kach. It is almost 100 miles from the Zhob River junction to the Indus River junction.

Within Pakistan, the Gomal River surrounds South Waziristan agency, forms the boundary between the North-West Frontier Province and Balochistan. From South Waziristan , the river enters the Gomal Valley in district Tank NWFP at a place called the Girdavi, Murtuza which is inhabited by the Miani tribe. It is mainly here that the water of Gomal is used to plow the lands in Gomal Valley through Zam system (Rod Kohi). The river passes then through the Damaan plain in Kulachi Tehsil and later on through Dera Ismail Khan Tehsil, It then joins the Indus River 20 miles south of Dera Ismail Khan.

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