Chashma () is a town located in

Mianwali District The Mianwali District () is a Districts of Pakistan, district located in the Sargodha Division of the Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab province of Pakistan. Mianwali District remained part of Rawalpindi Division until 1963, when Mianwali District beca ...

near Kundian,

Punjab Punjab (; ; also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb) is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern Pakistan and no ...

Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...

. It is situated on the left bank of the river

Indus The Indus ( ) is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans- Himalayan river of South and Central Asia. The river rises in mountain springs northeast of Mount Kailash in the Western Tibet region of China, flows northwest through the dis ...

, in close proximity of the Koh-i-Suleiman mountain range. Chashma is famous for the well-known

Chashma Barrage Chashma Barrage is a barrage on the River Indus in the Mianwali District of the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is 304 km northwest of Lahore and 56 km downstream of Jinnah Barrage. The contract for Chashma Barrage works was awarde ...

built on the Indus River. Also nearby is the Chashma Nuclear Power Plant of the

Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) () is a federally funded independent governmental agency, concerned with research and development of nuclear power, promotion of nuclear science, energy conservation and the peaceful use of nuclear techn ...

, with two units of 300 megawatt CHASHNUPP-1 and CHASHNUPP-2 and two 325-megawatt units: CHASHNUPP-3 and CHASHNUPP-4. The four units of Chashma are amongst the best performing electricity generating plants in the country, in terms of endurance and availability.

References

Populated places in Mianwali District Nuclear history of Pakistan Ministry of Energy (Pakistan) {{Mianwali-geo-stub