Daurdad

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Daūrdād is a prominent village of Golra Union Council, in Attock Tehsil, Attock District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan. It is located at 33°43'41N 72°31'41E[1] some 23 kilometres northeast of the district headquarters, at "Sanjwal–Bahter Road". Daurdad is an historic village with a population of six thousand, all of whom are Muslim, there were also a few Hindu families before 1947, who subsequently left the village during partition. Daurdad is an agricultural area. There is a river called the "Nala Ghaneer" which flows on the south side of the village,that crosses into the "Kawah Garh" mountain and dropping into the "Nala Nandna". The "Kawah Garh" is located on the west side of the village. The stones of this mountain were used in the construction of the historic Badshahi Mosque of Lahore, at the time of the Mughal Empire.

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[edit] Facilities

Daurdad consists of a sub-branch post office, nearly one dozen shops and general stores, and three mosques. A digital telephone exchange with 400 lines services Daurdad and the surrounding areas. A private wagon service facility to district headquarters and back, in every thirty minutes for the people of area.

[edit] Education

The people of Daurdad are well-educated and working in diverse fields, such as the Pakistan Army, education, POF Wah and Sanjwal, PAC Kamra, etc. Some are also working abroad.

Daurdad has a boys higher secondary school and a girls elementary school. There is a great need to start higher secondary classes immediately in the boys higher secondary school to provide better education facilities to the poor children of more than thirty villages in the three tehsils Attock, Hassanabdal and Fatehjang. There is also a great demand for the functioning of secondary classes in the girls elementary school. The Punjab Chief Minister has ordered district education authorities to start the higher secondary classes in the boys secondary school, on a priority basis but it is still awaiting.

[edit] Shrines

There are also two shrines. One of "Hazrat Chan Peer Bokhari" and the other one is "Mian Misar Shah Baba" and there are very old historic three graveyards of "Mughal Baba", "Shaheeda Baba" and "Kholian wala Baba".

[edit] Akhori Dam

Akhori Dam Project is one of the projects of Vision 25 Program, which is proposed by the former Pakistan Muslim League (Q)'s Government. Local people of this area are opposed to the proposal because they are small land holder agriculturalists but no one is listening to them. With the construction of this Akhori dam more than thirty villages including Daurdad, Akhori, Boota, Jabi, Bathou etc would be wiped off from the map, affecting nearly Sixty thousand people.

[edit] Prominent people

  • Prominent Muslim Leaguer, the late'Muhammad Yaqoob Khan(1919–1992)' of Daurdad, was an active member of the Pakistan Independence Movement. After the creation of an independent Pakistan, he was involved in developing this impoverished area, which now has all the basic facilities, such as roads, schools, electricity, telephones, cemented street paths, etc.
  • 'Mohammad Ismail Khan (1953-2006)', a prominent journalist and resident editor of the national news agency Pakistan Press International Islamabad, who was in journalism for the last thirty years, was brutally murdered on the night of 31st October 2006 at the age of 53, under mysterious circumstances in Islamabad[2]. He was buried on the 2nd of November in his native village Daurdad. He was also recognized for providing services for development of his native area especially the construction of Sanjwal Bridge and widening and improvement of Sanjwal-Bahter road and rendered glorious services in the profession of journalism. The Attock District Council and the Union Council Golra remembered the services of Ismail Khan and designated the Attock City–Daurdad road and Peoples Colony Attock City Chowk as "Ismail Khan Shaheed Road" and Chowk. The people of Daurdad arranged a big gathering to remember the services of Shaheed Ismail Khan and many of the notable personalities including Politician, Lawyers, Journalists, Local Bodies elected representatives, Religious scholars and social workers paid rich tributes to him. He was such a Hero and role model from this area.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Location of Daurdad - Falling Rain Genomics
  2. ^ Saja Forum
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Coordinates: 33°43′41″N, 72°31′41″E