Chakdina

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Chakdina or Dinachak is a village in Kharian Tehsil of Gujrat District, Punjab, Pakistan.

Many people still call and write it in old form i e Dinachak. It was founded in eighteenth century by Chaudhry Allahdin, a Gujjar at the site of Shahpur, a destroyed city considered to be the capital of Gujjars. At the start of twenty-first century, the current generation of Chaudhry Allahdin's family formed most of the population of the village. It is situated at about five km westwards from the town of Lalamusa.

Chakdina is situated in Ganja Union Council. Other villages in this Union Council are Ganja, Chak Ikhlas, Hail, Mughli, Dhalla, Chak Rajjadi, Jataria Khurd, Jataria Kalan, , Chatta, Sarwani etc. The village has middle schools for girls and boys.

One of the famous bazaars in the town of Lalamusa is named after Chakdina and is called Bazaar Dinaychakia. Dinaychakia is an improved form of Dinaychakian which means, in Punjabi, the people of Dinachak. This bazaar was inhabited by the people who migrated from Chakdina to Lalamusa in the nineteenth century. Chakdina at the moment is an important village politically in the union council. Important personalities of the village are Choudary Abdul Saeed son of Choudary Mushtaq Ahmed belonging to the Kunduana Clan, currently residing in the Kunduana House, Choudhry Ghulam Abbas, Choudhry Tariq Pervez naib nazim of union council ganja. Some people of the village also living in European countries like Norway, England, and Spain.