Jhelum جہلم
General Information
Country	Pakistan
Province	Punjab
Coordinates	32°′56″N 73°′44″E / 32.01556, 73.01222Coordinates: 32°′56″N 73°′44″E / 32.01556, 73.01222
Altitude	120 metres AMSL
Area	-- km²
Calling code	0544
Time zone	PST (UTC+5)
No. of Towns	9
Estimate	107,000 (2006)
Government
No. of Union Councils	52
No. of NGO's working	8
Website
Jhelum Website

The Jhelum district (Urdu: جہلم) is situated in Punjab province of Pakistan. It had a population of 936,957 of which 31.48% were urban in 1998. [1] Image File history File linksMetadata Jhelum77. ... In political geography and international politics, a country is a political division of a geographical entity, a sovereign territory, most commonly associated with the notions of state or nation and government. ... Currently, Pakistan is subdivided into four provinces, two territories, and also portions of Kashmir that are administered by the Pakistani government. ... This article is about the Pakistani province. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... Altitude is the elevation of an object from a known level or datum. ... The term above mean sea level (AMSL) refers to the elevation (on the ground) or altitude (in the air) of any object, relative to the average sea level. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Square kilometre (U.S. spelling: square kilometer), symbol km², is a decimal multiple of SI unit of surface area square metre, one of the SI derived units. ... A telephone number is a sequence of decimal digits (0-9) that is used for identifying a destination telephone line in a telephone network. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... Pakistan Standard Time (PST) is the time zone for Pakistan. ... UTC +5 is the timezone for : Pakistan Standard Time in Pakistan. ... A street in Ynysybwl, Wales, relatively stereotypical of a small town A town is usually an urban area which is not considered to rank as a city. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Union Council Union Council is a sub part of a district, usually it is a large village also including the nearby small villages. ... A non-governmental organization (NGO) is an organization which is not a part of a government. ... The Districts of Pakistan form the third tier of government in Pakistan, ranking as subdivisions of the provinces of Pakistan. ... Urdu ( , , trans. ... This article is about the Pakistani province. ...

Location

It is located in the north of the Punjab province, Jhelum district is bordered by Sargodha to its south, Gujrat and the Jhelum River to its south and east, Chakwal to its west, Mirpur to its east, and Rawalpindi to its north. Gujrat (Urdu/Punjabi: گجرات) is a city in Pakistan located in Gujrat District in the Punjab Province. ... The Jhelum River is the largest and most western of the five rivers of the Punjab province of Pakistan, and passes through Jhelum City. ... Mirpur is a city of Azad Kashmir. ... Rawalpindi district contains the city of Rawalpindi. ...

Informatics

Administration

Jhelum district contains four tehsils: Jhelum, Sohawa, Pind Dadan Khan and Dina. [2] It also contains the city of Jhelum, City of Dina, City of Pind Dadan Khan The equivalent terms tehsil, tahsil, tahasil, taluka, taluk, and taluq refer to a unit of government in some countries of the Indian subcontinent. ... Mosque in Jhelum Cantt Jhelum or Jehlum (Urdu: جہلم) is a city in northern Punjab Province in Pakistan. ... Sohawa is one of the Tehsils (sub-divisions) of District Jhelum, located in north-western part of the district. ... A village in Pind Dadan Khan Pind Dadan Khan (Urdu/Punjabi: پنڈ دادن خان) is a tehsil, a minor administrative area of Jhelum District, Punjab, Pakistan. ... Dina (Urdu: دینہ ) is a town situated in Jhelum District, Punjab, Pakistan. ... Jhelum City is a town in the Punjab Province in Pakistan. ...

Climate

Jhelum is hot in summer, and dry and mild in winter. Average annual rainfall is about 900 mm (about 35 inches.)

Demographics

• Population: 936,957 (1998)
• Population density: 261 people per square kilometer.
• Literacy rate: 71%

History

Jhelum City

The Jhelum City situated on the right bank of the river Jhelum, here crossed by a bridge

District Jhelum

The district of Jhelum stretches from the river Jhelum almost to the Indus. Salt is quarried at the Mayo mine in the Salt Range. There are two coal-mines, the only ones worked in the province, from which the North-Western railway obtains part of its supply of coal. The chief centre of the salt trade is Pind Dadan Khan. The district is crossed by the main line of the North-Western railway, and also traversed along the south by a branch line.

Tehsils of Jhelum

• Jhelum
• Dina
• Sohawa
• Pind Dadan Khan

Jhelum or Jehlum may mean: Jhelum River in India and Pakistan Jhelum City in Punjab, Pakistan Jhelum District in Punjab, Pakistan This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Dina may refer to: A villBold textge in India where the Zafarnama was written A Sanskrit word meaning day An English spelling variation of Dinah, a Hebrew name. ... This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...

River Jhelum

The river Jhelum is navigable throughout the district, which forms the south-eastern portion of a rugged Himalayan spur, extending between the Indus and Jhelum to the borders of the Sind Sagar Doab. Its scenery is very picturesque, although not of so wild a character as the mountain region of Rawalpindi to the north, and is lighted up in places by smiling patches of cultivated valley. The backbone of the district is formed by the Salt Range, a treble line of parallel hills running in three long forks from east to west throughout its whole breadth.

The range rises in bold precipices, broken by gorges, clothed with brushwood and traversed by streams which are at first pure, but soon become impregnated with the saline matter over which they pass. Between the line of hills lies a picturesque table-land, in which the beautiful little lake of Kallar Kahar nestles amongst the minor ridges. North of the Salt Range, the country extends upwards in an elevated plateau, diversified by countless ravines and fissures, until it loses itself in tangled masses of Rawalpindi mountains. In this rugged tract cultivation is rare and difficult, the soil being choked with saline matter. At the foot of the Salt Range, however, a small strip of level soil lies along the banks of the Jhelum, and is thickly dotted with prosperous villages.

The drainage of the district is determined by a low central watershed running north and south at right angles to the Salt Range. The waters of the western portion find their way into the Sohan, and finally into the Indus; those of the opposite slope collect themselves into small torrents, and empty themselves into the Jhelum.

History

The history of the district dates back to the semi-mythical period of the Mahabaharata. Hindu tradition represents the Salt Range as the refuge of the five Pandava brethren during the period of their exile, and every salient point in its scenery is connected with some legend of the national heroes. Modern research has fixed the site of the conflict between Alexander and Porus as within Jhelum district. After this event, we have little information with regard to the condition of the district until the Muslim conquest brought back literature and history to Upper India. The Janjuas and Jats, who now hold the Salt Range and its northern plateau respectively, appear to have been the earliest inhabitants. A Hindu ( , Devanagari: हिन्दु), as per modern definition, is an adherent of the philosophies and scriptures of Hinduism, and the religious, philosophical and cultural system that originated in the Indian subcontinent. ... In the Mahabharata, the Pandava are the five acknowledged sons of Pandu, by his two wives Kunti and Madri. ... Wars of Alexander the Great Chaeronea – Thebes – Granicus – Miletus – Halicarnassus – Issus – Tyre – Gaugamela – Persian Gate – Sogdian Rock – Hydaspes River Alexander the Great (Greek: ,[1][2] Megas Alexandros; July 20 356 BC – June 10 323 BC), also known as Alexander III, was an Ancient Greek king of Macedon (336–323 BC). ... King Porus (also Raja Puru), was the King of Pauravaa, a Kingdom in Punjab located between the Jhelum and the Chenab (in Greek, the Hydaspes and the Acesines) rivers in the Punjab and dominions extending to Hyphasis[1]. Its capital may have been near the current city of Lahore [2... The Janjua Rajput (Punjabi ਜਨ੍ਜੁਅ, Urdu: جنجوعہ) (also spelt Janjuha, Janjuah) is a highly dominant royal warrior clan of Northern India and Pakistan. ... Jats are now preeminently a farming community. ...

Military

• General Asif Nawaz (Former Commander-in-chief of Pakistan Army)
• Lt.General(Retd) Ijaz Azeem
• Major Akram Shaheed "Nishan-e-Haider"
• Lieutenant General Muhammad Masood Aslam, Sitara-e-Jurat
• Major(Retd)Raja Muhhamad Aslam

 Major(Retd)Raja Azaz Ahmed 

Gen. ... Military manpower Military age 16 years of age Availability 39,028,014 (2005) Males ages 16-49 Reaching military age males: 1,969,055 (2005) Active troops 620,000 (Ranked 9th) Military expenditures Dollar figure $3. ...

Political

• Chaudhary Muhammad Altaf Hussain (Former Governor of Punjab)
• Raja Ghazanfar Ali Khan
• Raja Muhammad Afzal Khan, (Former MNA)
• Dr. Ghulam Hussain (Former Federal Minister & former Sectery General of Pakistan People Party)

Educational

• Choudry Fazal (Principal Govt. College)
• Sohail Iqbal (Mathematician)
• Syed Fazal Abbas Bukhari (BBA-Management,USA)(MBA-Marketing,USA) S/O Syed Ghalib Ali Bukhari

GCU Clock Tower Government College University, Lahore is a co-educational public university located on The Mall in Lahore, Pakistan. ...

Social

• Khawaja Javed Iqbal (Tanzeem-e-Amal Jhelum) (Khawaja Tent Service)
• Ch. Muhammad Iqbal (Khair-un-nass)
• Syed Ahmed Ali Shah R/O Village Raiya Chak Maddu, Jhelum

Political

• Chaudhary Muhammad Altaf Hussain (Former Governor of Punjab)
• Raja Ghazanfar Ali Khan
• Raja Muhammad Afzal Khan, (Former MNA)
• Dr. Ghulam Hussain (Former Federal Minister & former Sectery General of Pakistan People Party

Social

• Khawaja Javed Iqbal (Tanzeem-e-Amal Jhelum) (Khawaja Tent Service)
• Ch. Muhammad Iqbal (Khair-un-nass Jhelum)
• Syed Ahmed Ali Shah R/O Village Raiya Chak Maddu, Jhelum
• Mr Amjad Mahmood Butt

External links

• The Voice of Jhelum & Dina.
• Jhelum Informations
• Jhelum's Official Site Urdu Version
• Jhelum's Official Site English Version
• Humara Jhelum Community
• Best Online Newspaper in Jhelum.

Organizations

• Tanzeem-e-Amal Jhelum
• Khair Un Nass Jhelum

Companies

• First IT Solution Providers Including Web Development in Jhelum
• City web developers
• First webHosting Providers of Jhelum
• Pakistan Sports Academy
• Limits Multi Servies Systems

Administrative divisions of Punjab (Pakistan)
Capital	Lahore
Districts	Attock | Bahawalnagar | Bahawalpur | Bhakkar | Chakwal | Dera Ghazi Khan | Faisalabad | Gujranwala | Gujrat | Hafizabad | Jhang | Jhelum | Kasur | Khanewal | Khushab | Lahore | Layyah | Lodhran | Mandi Bahauddin | Mianwali | Multan | Muzaffargarh | Nankana Sahib | Narowal | Okara | Pakpattan | Rahim Yar Khan | Rajanpur | Rawalpindi | Sahiwal | Sargodha | Sheikhupura | Sialkot | Toba Tek Singh | Vehari