Choa Khalsa is a town and Union Council of

Kallar Syedan Tehsil Kallar Syedan is a tehsil in the Rawalpindi District, Punjab, Pakistan. Earlier a part of the Kahuta Tehsil, it became a separate tehsil on 1 July 2004. Kallar Syedan is the capital of the tehsil. Demography According to the 2017 census of Paki ...

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. Town consist of 800 houses. On 1 July 2004, Choa Khalsa became the Union Council.

History

The word Choa means a water spring and Khalsa is related to the Sikh movement. Khalsa is a strict Sikh religious order founded in 1699 by

Guru Gobind Singh Guru Gobind Singh (; 22 December 1666 – 7 October 1708), born Gobind Das or Gobind Rai the tenth Sikh Guru, a spiritual master, warrior, poet and philosopher. When his father, Guru Tegh Bahadur, was executed by Aurangzeb, Guru Gobind Sing ...

, the term Khalsa is an Arabic word. There are various interpretations to the term Khalsa, one of the general meaning of the term is free from impurities or pure. This term is also defined as the land or estate which belongs directly to the king, without any intermediary claims of lords/ noble or farmer to the same in the Rawalpindi District. Some villages go by the name of Dera Khalsa, Thoa Khalsa, Choa Khalsa, etc. They were so named because they were state owned villages during Sikh rule in

. Choa Khalsa village is located about 60 km from Rawalpindi. It was also one of villages affected by 1947 Rawalpindi massacres. In March 1947, Pashtun tribals along with

Muslim League National Guard Muslim League National Guards, or Muslim National Guards, was the name of a quasi- paramilitary organization associated All-India Muslim League that took part in the Pakistan Movement. It was actively in the violence that ensued during the Pa ...

attacked this village, looted, raped and forced local Sikh women to convert to Islam. 150 Sikhs were killed in total. This barbaric attack set in motion the mass killing spree in whole Punjab. Many Sikh women chose to drown themselves in a well in an act of mass suicide.

Notable people

Abdul Aziz Mirza Admiral Abdul Aziz Mirza ( ur, ; born 1943) was a Pakistan Navy officer who served as the Chief of Naval Staff from 1999 until retiring in 2002, amid taking over the command of the Navy after the revolt and resignation Admiral Fasih Bokhari ...

, Chief of Naval Staff, ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

Villages

*Choa Khalsa *Chullo Mirgala *Dhoke Ch Feroze Khan *Dhoke Kanyal *Dhok Dulal Qureshi *Khanada *Muhalla Akbari *Takal *Mohra Heran *Dhok Baba Balandiyan *Dhok Sadiq abad *Dhoke Gohar wali Takal *Pehr Hali *Rajam *Dhok Bangyal *Dhok Sangal *Khanadah *Mohalla Akbri *Sahot Hayal *Barri Bunn *Mohra Nagrial *Dhok Muqaddam *Ghadur *Mirghala Khalsa *Mohra Nagrial *Mohalla Rajgaan

Choa Khalsa Circle Union Councils

Choa Khalsa is Center of 6 union councils After Delimitation 2018 Choa Khalsa Circle 6 Union Councils of

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Comes Under

NA-58 (Rawalpindi-II) NA-52 (Rawalpindi-II) () is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. Area * Gujar Khan Tehsil * Choha Khalsa Circle 6 Union Councils of Kallar Syedan Tehsil Members of Parliament 1970–1977: NW-27 (Rawalpindi-II) 1977–2002: ...

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...

.and in

PP-7 (Rawalpindi-II) PP-7 (Rawalpindi-II) is a Constituency of Provincial Assembly of Punjab. Area * Kahuta Tehsil * Kallar Syedan Tehsil Municipal Committee Kallar Syedan * Choha Khalsa Circle Union Councils of Kallar Syedan Tehsil * Exclude UC33 Bishandote and ...

of Punjab Assembly.

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20151208165732/http://www.pothwar.com/tehkallar Union councils of Kallar Syedan Tehsil Populated places in Kallar Syedan Tehsil Towns in Kallar Syedan Tehsil {{Pakistan-geo-stub