Mohra Malkan

Mohra Malkan, Dadyal AK
Mohra Malkan, Dadyal AK
Coordinates: 33°19′N 73°42′E / 33.317°N 73.700°E / 33.317; 73.700Coordinates: 33°19′N 73°42′E / 33.317°N 73.700°E / 33.317; 73.700
Country  Pakistan
Province Azad Kashmir
Population
 • Estimate () 3,152
Time zone UTC+5 (PST)

Mohra Malkan is a village in the Dadyal Tehsil of Mirpur District of Azad Kashmir. Mohra Malkan is about 42 mi (68 km) southeast of Islamabad. Mohra Malkan is part of the Union Council of Amb. The village is also known as Poorana ("Old") Mohra Malkan. It is located approximately 2 km from Dadyal City; on the edge of Mangla Dam and next to the ruins/remains of Old Dadyal City. Other villages around Mohra Malkan are Chapman and Mehra.[1]

History

The name of the village in the local Pahari language means "place of the maliks (chiefs)" who were the inhabitants of Mohra Malkan before 1967.

After the first impounding of Mangla Dam in 1967, the old inhabitants of the village, Maliks relocated in the city of New Dadyal. The village was then populated by the Jatt refugees of the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War who had migrated from Distt Punch (Mehnder Tehsil) of Indian Administered Kashmir. For this reason the village is sometimes known as Poorana (Old) Mohra Malkan. These people still inhabit the village, through the majority of them shifted to Chamb, Khairowal Jattan (Iftikhar Abad), Distt Bhimber in 1974 where they were allotted agricultural land (64 kanals per family).

Resettlement in WAPDA Town Dadyal

In a long term project, the Mangla Dam's maximum water conservation level was raised from 1202 to a possible 1242 feet. In August 2013, the water level reached a historic high at 1,213 feet above mean sea level. [2]

References

  1. ↑ "Village List Mirpur AJK". Scribd. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
  2. ↑ "Water storage in Mangla Dam reaches historic high - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 2013-08-07. Retrieved 2017-10-19.

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