Pind Dadan Khan (tehsil)

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A village in Pind Dadan Khan
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Pind Dadan Khan (Urdu/Punjabi: پنڈ دادن خان) is a tehsil, a minor administrative area of Jhelum District, Punjab, Pakistan. It is located on the bank of River Jhelum, about 28 kilometres from the M2 motorway.

The area is well known for Khewra Salt Mines, Asia's largest salt mine, in use for over 2000 years, and which features an underground mosque. The area has a long history going back to the time of Alexander the Great's invasion (see Punjab (Pakistan)). The small town of Jalalpur Sharif is located in Pind Dadan Khan and is said to be where Alexander the Great's famous horse, Bucephalus is buried.

This pind (from punjabi word for village), is named after Nawab Dadan Khan, the Muslim Governor of Lahore in the 1700s.

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pind dadan khan is also famous due to a great muslim scientist al baiuruni , who visited this area and found the circle of earth here . He make a tajarba ghaa in village nandna. giving tribute to great al baruni a degree college has been established here named as al bairuni degree college . now a days an engineering university is being planned to be established here .

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