Mangla

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Mangla (Urdu: منگلا) village is located in Mirpur District, Azad Kashmir, while Mangla Cantt is located in Jhelum District, Pakistan.

It is located 16km from heho land city at the mouth of the Mangla Dam. The construction of the Dam reservoir, which has a perimeter of 400km, has turned it into a place of interest. A castle situated on the lake-side serves as a historical back-drop.There is also a power station situated in the Mangla dam which is the second largest power station of Pakistan.

[Chak Mangla] Chak Number 168/171 NB, Dist Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan. Chak Mangla is a relatively a small village but has been abode to some celebrities like Maulvi Aziz ur Rehman sahib and Anas Ahmad Mangla.

ABOUT Chak Mangla. In Early 1900s, British government, in order to drive freedom-fighters (like Dullah Bhatti) out of the jungles of Punjab, decided to open Sargodha, Loyalpure (now Faisalabad) and Montgomery (now sahiwal) area for farming and residence. Sir Loyal and his Engineers came up with the whole plan of various villages and instead of giving them typical names the team chose to number them according to their location from water streams derived from Jehlum River.

Tribe of Mangla was selected to reside in two villages or Check(points) or Chaks: Chak No. 168 and 171. Tribe chiefs requested local governaments to let them live in a same village. So some changes were made to the maps and they let it Chak 168/171.

Later known as Chak Mangla

PEOPLE of Chak Mangla and how name came to be.

The Mangla Tribe are sons of infamous companion of Hindu Lord Krishna Murlidhar, Raja Hanumaan. In 19th century, one of the princes left south India and started living in Sargodha part of the punjab. His family depended on export/import wheat, cotton from Punjab to Delhi and Kashmir. In Mid-19th Century Mangal Das became Muslim and was named Khairuddin. His ex-friends and family started calling the Mangla out of hate. (Mangla is a devi/queens attributed for wealth in Hindu religion). Khairuddin wore this name Mangla as a badge of honor, being proud of his new religion thus the new tribe of Mangla started. Most of the Mangla tribe migrated to Chak Mangla but there are some Mangla's still living in other parts of Punjab (sahiwaal etc) .

In Chak Mangla, every head of the family was award 2 km square. Later other Non-Mangla's, obvious dependent to Mangla tribe started migrating to Chak Mangla as well.

In 1950s, most of the Mangla tribe accepted Ahmadiyyat Islam. In History books Chak Mangla has been mentioned as "Small Rabwah" for their open-heartness for various interfaith conferences and other conventions for Ahmadiyya faith. Last 3 Khalifas (caliphs) Mirza Nasir Ahmad, Mirza Tahir Ahmad and Mirza Masroor Ahmad, had chance to visit Chak Mangla before they were chosen for the blessed seat.