Gujar Khan Tehsil Gujar may refer to:
*Gurjar, Gujjar or Gujar, an fighting group of people in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan
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* Gojari language or Gujjar, a language spoken by the Gujjar people of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India
* Gujar, Iran (disambiguation)
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in
Rawalpindi District
Rawalpindi District ( Punjabi and ur, ) is a district located in the northernmost part of the Punjab province of Pakistan. Parts of the district form part of the Islamabad Rawalpindi metropolitan area. Rawalpindi city is the district capi ...
,
Punjab
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,
Pakistan
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Gujar Khan Tehsil Gujar may refer to:
*Gurjar, Gujjar or Gujar, an fighting group of people in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan
**
* Gojari language or Gujjar, a language spoken by the Gujjar people of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India
* Gujar, Iran (disambiguation)
* G ...
.
Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 22 June 2012 until completing his designated term on 16 March 2013 has his maternal side of his family in kauntrila.
History
Kauntrila was a large market before the
independence
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of
Pakistan
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in 1947, and was on the main walking route connecting
Chakwal
Chakwal ( Punjabi and ur, ) is a city in Rawalpindi Division, Punjab province, Pakistan.
It is the 66th largest city of Pakistan by population. Chakwal is located 90 kilometres south-west of the federal capital, Islamabad and 270 kilomet ...
and
Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi ( or ; Urdu, ) is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad, and third largest in Punjab after Lahore and Faisalabad. Rawalpindi is next to Pakistan's ...
. This town has a number of pre-independence built houses, one of which is the tallest building called "Mari" means tall house in Pothohari language. This Mari was owned by a "Bakhshi Family" before
independence
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. However, the Bakhshi Family had to leave their belongings and migrated to India after riots started in nearby villages.
Geography
It is situated in the south of
Pothohar
The Pothohar Plateau ( ur, ) is a plateau in north-eastern Pakistan, located between Indus River and the Jhelum River, forming the northern part of Punjab.
Geography
Potohar Plateau is bounded on the east by the Jhelum River, on the west by the ...
's capital Gujar Khan. Kauntrila is connected through a link road with Gujar khan - Daultala Road at Sasral and Sohawa - Chakwal Road at Dhoke Amb.
Popular Villages
The popular villages that fall in kauntrila town are " Dhoke Rajgan, Mohra Mari, Mohra Jharian, Mohra Kalyal, Kolian Hameed, Kharali, Garmala, Hafial, Mohri Rajgan" etc.
Development
Kauntrila is connected through a link road with Gujar khan - Daultala Road at Sasral and Sohawa - Chakwal Road at Dhoke Amb. There is one Girls High School and one Boys Higher Secondary School. One Rural Health Centre is also working here.
Play Grounds of Boys Higher Secondary School are the biggest in Rawalpindi District, so is a favourite place for District Games. Like many other places Kauntrila also suffers with lack of medical facilities.