Kundal Shahi ( ur, ; locally: ) is a village and tourist resort in the

Neelam Valley The district of Neelum (spelt also ''Neelam''; ur, ) is the northernmost of 10 districts located within the Pakistani-administered territory of Azad Kashmir. Taking up the larger part of the Neelam Valley, the district has a population of ar ...

in northern Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. It has a scattered settlement area, located on both sides of the Jagran Nallah River, at its confluence with the

Neelam River The Neelum River, or Kishanganga River, is a river in the Kashmir region of India and Pakistan. It originates in Bandipora district of northern Jammu and Kashmir in India, flows through the Neelam District of Pakistan's Azad Kashmir and then mer ...

. It is a few minutes walking distance from the Neelam Valley highway, some by road from

Muzaffarabad Muzaffarabad (; ur, ) is the capital and largest city of Azad Kashmir, and the 60th largest in Pakistan. The city is located in Muzaffarabad District, near the confluence of the Jhelum and Neelum rivers. The district is bounded by the Pak ...

, and a few kilometres away from the Line of Control between India– and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The majority of the population are of the Qureshi ethnic group, and there are small numbers of people from the Sheikh, Mughal, and

Sayyid ''Sayyid'' (, ; ar, سيد ; ; meaning 'sir', 'Lord', 'Master'; Arabic plural: ; feminine: ; ) is a surname of people descending from the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandsons, Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali, sons of Muhamma ...

groups. Members of the Qureshi community, numbering about 3,000 people, speak the

Kundal Shahi language Kundal Shahi (, Kunḍal Šāhī) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 700 people in the Kundal Shahi village of Neelam Valley in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. It is an endangered language and its speakers are shifting to Hindko. Phonology Th ...

. It is an endangered language as it is not being learned by the younger generation, who are shifting to Hindko, the language of wider communication in the area. Most of the people of the village follow the

Barelvi The Barelvi movement ( ur, بَریلوِی, , ), also known as Ahl al-Sunnah wa'l-Jamaah (People of the Prophet's Way and the Community) is a Sunni revivalist movement following the Hanafi and Shafi'i school of jurisprudence, with strong Suf ...

school of Sunni Islam.

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* *{{Cite book, last = Rehman, first = Khawaja A. , editor=Mark Turin , editor2=Bettina Zeisler , date = 2011, title = Himalayan languages and linguistics: studies in phonology, semantics, morphology and syntax, chapter = Ergativity In Kundal Shahi, Kashmiri And Hindko, series = Brill's Tibetan studies library, Languages of the greater Himalayan region, publisher = Brill, location = Leiden, pages = 219–234, isbn = 978-90-04-19448-9 Populated places in Neelam District 2005 Kashmir earthquake Tourist attractions in Azad Kashmir

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