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Naqabat by syed muhammad shah hamdani of danda shah bilawal
Danda Shah Bilawal is a village in Punjab, Pakistan located on the midway on the main road linking Mianwali and Talagang. It is a local trade centre for surrounding villages owing to its location.
Contents
- Naqabat by syed muhammad shah hamdani of danda shah bilawal
- Map of Danda Shah Bilawal Pakistan
- Danda shah bilawal village pixxx flv
- Etymology
- Population
- Infrastructure
- References
Map of Danda Shah Bilawal, Pakistan
Danda shah bilawal village pixxx flv
Etymology
Danda means "small hill" while Shah comes from the name of a local saint Noori Shah Sultan Bilawal. Noori Shah visited this village and then stayed here. Bilawal was a blacksmith who was a native of Danda and host of Noori Shah Sultan. Therefore, the name of the village was later changed from Danda to Danda Shah Bilawal.
Population
Danda Shah Bilawal has a population of around 7,500. Its inhabitants are mostly Punjabis.
The village has strong militarist traditions and many local men have traditionally been soldiers by profession. Around forty people from Danda Shah Bilawal took part in World War I and two were killed in action.
It is also said that the grave of a forefather of a former president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, is also there in the old graveyard.
Infrastructure
Danda Shah Bilawal has been designated as one of the ten "model villages" in the Chakwal District by the then Chief Minister of Punjab Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi.
The village has three private schools, one girls' high school and a boys' higher secondary school. In 1989, Nawaz Sharif, the then Chief Minister of Punjab, announced the formation of a boys' higher secondary school.
The village also possesses a cricket stadium, once called the Mian Chilku Stadium, now renamed as Shah Bilawal Stadium.
In 2008 the then Prime Minister of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari announced the construction of Gambhir Dam, which was to be the largest small/medium dam of Pakistan. In the five-year reign of the Pakistan Peoples Party, no work was done on this project. Now the recent government decided to start the project and an amount of Rs. 1.4 billion has been approved for the construction of Gambhir Dam in constituency PP-23.