Kakul (Kakol) is a village situated in the Tehsil and District
Abbottabad
Abbottabad (; Urdu, Punjabi language(HINDKO dialect) آباد, translit=aibṭabād, ) is the capital city of Abbottabad District in the Hazara region of eastern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is the 40th largest city in Pakistan and fourth ...
, at an elevation of 1300 metres, 5 km northeast of
center of Abbottabad city near the
Thandiani Hills. Abbottabad is a District of
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the northwestern region of the country, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ...
province of
Pakistan. The population is around 30,000. It is also famous for The
Pakistan Military Academy (PMA), also known as PMA Kakul, that is Officer Training Academy of Pakistan Army. The posterior gate of
PMA is also named as Kakul gate owing to its proximity with the village.
History
Kakul was a rural area prior to the establishment of a
Boer Prisoner of War camp during the
Boer War, circa 1899–1902, by the (then) Government of
British India.
[Parrett, C. 'Boer POWs at Kakul, Abbottabad' in ''Durbar: Journal of the IMHS'', Vol 28, No 1, Spring 2011, p. 3-8, Pub. UK, by the ]Indian Military Historical Society
Indian Military Historical Society (IMHS). is an organisation and learned society, which is based primarily in the United Kingdom but with a wide membership extending to the British Commonwealth and several other countries around the world. The soc ...
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5th Royal Gurkha Rifles
5th Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force), also abbreviated as 5 GR(FF) is an infantry regiment of the Indian Army comprising Gurkha soldiers of Nepalese origin. It was formed in 1858 as part of the British Indian Army.
The regiment's battalions served ...
. Later on, the POW camp was converted into an army mountaineering and PT school until 1947–48, and a portion of it also remained the offices of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC). It was this site, which was later chosen for the new post-independence
Pakistan Military Academy, which is located in the eastern side of the valley.
See also
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Killing of Osama bin Laden
References
Union councils of Abbottabad District
Populated places in Abbottabad District
Populated places established in 1957
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