Haveli District

Coordinates: 33°56′N 74°06′E / 33.933°N 74.100°E / 33.933; 74.100
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Haveli District
ضلع حویلی
Deputy Commissioner
N/A
 • District Police OfficerN/A
 • District Health OfficerN/A
Area
 • Total598 km2 (231 sq mi)
Population
 (2017)[2]
 • Total152,124
 • Density268/km2 (690/sq mi)
Languages
 • OfficialUrdu
 • SpokenGojari 60% pahari 35% Kashmiri 5%
Number of Tehsils3

The Haveli District (

Urdu
: ضلع حویلی) is a district of Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region.[1] It is one of the 10 districts of the Pakistan-administered territory of Azad Kashmir. It was previously a tehsil of the Bagh District but was elevated to the district status on 1 July 2009.[3]

According to the

2017 census, the district has a population of 152,124.[2][4] The main native languages are [[Gojari language (estimated to be spoken by around 60% of the inhabitants), pahari (c. 35%), and Kashmiri (c. 5%).[5][6]
Haveli District has many tourism places such as:


1. Neelfairy (or Neilferi) 2. Hillan Waterfall 3. Mathatika 4. Sankh Meadows 5. Badori 6. Mahmood Gali 7. Darra Haji Peer 8. Lasdana 9. Sharu Dhara 10. Mangi Shaheed 11. Kalamula 12. Pajja Gali 13. pahala waterfall (Kalamula) 14.khariyan waterfall( UC Keerni Mandhar) 15.Rani Bagh 16. jabbi syedyan and many more un explore tourist spots

Map of Azad Kashmir with the Haveli District highlighted in red

Administration

The Haveli District is divided into three tehsils:

  • Haveli Tehsil (Kahutta)
  • Khurshidabad Tehsil
  • Mumtazabad Tehsil

The district has 12 union councils consisting of 95 villages and one municipal corporation, Forward Kahuta.

Geography

The Haveli District is situated at a high altitude of approximately 8,000 feet above sea level. Heavy snowfall occurs regularly throughout the year. Darra Haji Peer, Lasdana, Sindhgala, Neel Kunth, Aliabad, Sheraziabad, Kalamula, Jabbi Syedan,hallan jaunbi and Mohri Syed Ali are all well known tourist locations. The Bedori Top, at 12,228 feet, is the highest peak in the district.

Baramulla District of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, on the south-east and south by the Poonch District of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, and on the west by the Bagh District and the Poonch District
of Azad Kashmir. Historically this place was very important for all those emperor's that would wanted to establish their empire on the Northern areas and other parts of Kashmir. At that time the main power on this region was the Tanoli tribe (descendants of Khilji) and their state Amb Darband Ruled By Malik Abdul Qadir (founder of free Amb Movement after independence), great-grandfather Mir Jehandad Khan Tanoli, was a tribal chief of the Tanoli people and the state headquarter was in Darband.

The Poonch region became part of the Sikh Empire in 1819. Maharaja Ranjit Singh gave it as a jagir to Raja Dhyan Singh, his favoure Dogra diwan. Dhyan Singh and his descendants administered the region till the Partition of India in 1947. However, the maharajas of Jammu and Kashmi, who became the suzerains of the Poonch jagir after 1846, exerted increasing control over the region towards the end of the period.

Raja Baldev Singh constructed a road from Poonch to the Haji Pir pass via Kahuta, along with a suspension bridge over the Betar Nala near the town.[3] Later it appears to have been upgraded to a wooden bridge. It was burnt down by the Jammu and Kashmir State Forces stationed at Poonch during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, mistaking an Indian relief column sent via Uri to be an enemy attack. Nevertheless, a portion of the column under the command of Pritam Singh reached Poonch and helped the town survive the siege.[4]

References

  1. ^
    due weight
    in the coverage. Although "controlled" and "held" are also applied neutrally to the names of the disputants or to the regions administered by them, as evidenced in sources (h) through (i) below, "held" is also considered politicized usage, as is the term "occupied," (see (j) below).
    (a)     Kashmir, region Indian subcontinent, Encyclopaedia Britannica, retrieved 15 August 2019 (subscription required) Quote: "Kashmir, region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent ... has been the subject of dispute between India and Pakistan since the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. The northern and western portions are administered by Pakistan and comprise three areas: Azad Kashmir, Gilgit, and Baltistan, the last two being part of a territory called the Northern Areas. Administered by India are the southern and southeastern portions, which constitute the state of Jammu and Kashmir but are slated to be split into two union territories.";
    (b) Pletcher, Kenneth, Aksai Chin, Plateau Region, Asia, Encyclopaedia Britannica, retrieved 16 August 2019 (subscription required) Quote: "Aksai Chin, Chinese (Pinyin) Aksayqin, portion of the Kashmir region, at the northernmost extent of the Indian subcontinent in south-central Asia. It constitutes nearly all the territory of the Chinese-administered sector of Kashmir that is claimed by India to be part of the Ladakh area of Jammu and Kashmir state.";
    (c) "Kashmir", Encyclopedia Americana, Scholastic Library Publishing, 2006, p. 328,
    ISBN 978-1-84904-621-3
     Quote:"Some politicised terms also are used to describe parts of J&K. These terms include the words 'occupied' and 'held'."
  2. ^ a b "Haveli District population per 2017 census". Citypopulation.de website. Archived from the original on 29 June 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  3. ^ "District Haveli (Kahutta)". Government of Azad Jammu & Kashmir. Archived from the original on 8 April 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  4. ^ "Census 2017: AJK population rises to over 4m". The Nation newspaper. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  5. ^ Statistical Year Book 2020 (PDF). Muzaffarabad: AJ&K Bureau Of Statistics. p. 140. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  6. ^ Shakil, Mohsin (2012). "Languages of Erstwhile State of Jammu Kashmir (A Preliminary Study)". p. 12.
  7. ^ "Bedori Top Mountain Information".
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Haveli District.
Summary of World Broadcasts: Asia, Pacific, Issues 2510-2523, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1997, p. 4, Pakistan has rejected Indian denial of carrying out a rocket attack on forward Kahuta near the Line of Control, killing and wounding several people, A Foreign Office spokesman said in Islamabad today [27 January].
Gazetteer of Kashmir and Ladak, Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, 1890, p. 416 – via archive.org
Grewal, Poonch: India's Invincible Citadel (2022), p. 114.
Grewal, Poonch: India's Invincible Citadel (2022), pp. 275–.

Sources Grewal, Brig. Jasbir Singh (2022). Poonch: India’s Invincible Citadel. Lancer Publishers. ISBN 9788170623458.

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