Daūrdād is a village in Golra Union Council

Union Councils of Pakistan

A sherwan or village council in Pakistan is an elected local government body consisting of 21 councillors, and headed by a nazim and a naib nazim...

, Attock Tehsil

Attock Tehsil

Attock Tehsil is one of the six tehsils of Attock District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It lies between 33º38' and 34º0' N. and 72º7' and 72º50' E, with an area of . The Indus bounds it on the north-west, dividing it from the North-West Frontier Province, while the Haro flows through from...

, Attock District

Attock District

Attock District is a district in the north-west Punjab Province of Pakistan.The district was created in April 1904 by the merger of Talagang Tehsil in the Jhelum District with the Pindigheb, Fatehjang and Attock tehsils from Rawalpindi District of the Punjab province of British India.Attock...

 in the Punjab

Punjab (Pakistan)

Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...

 Province of Pakistan

Pakistan

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. It is located some 23 kilometres northeast of Attock

Attock

Attock is a city located in the northern border of the Punjab province of Pakistan and the headquarters of Attock District...

. Daurdad is an historic village with a population of roughly six thousand, all of whom are Muslim; there were also a few Hindu

Hindu

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 families before 1947, who subsequently left the village

Village

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 during partition

Partition of India

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. Daurdad is an agricultural area. Nala Ghaneer flows on the south side of the village, crossing the Kawah Garh mountain. The stones of this mountain were used in the construction of the historic Badshahi Mosque

Badshahi Mosque

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 of Lahore

Lahore

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, at the time of the Mughal Empire

Mughal Empire

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.

Facilities

Daurdad consists of a sub-branch post office

Post office

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, nearly one dozen shops

Retailing

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 and general stores, and three mosques. A digital telephone exchange with 400 lines services Daurdad and the surrounding areas. Daurdad has a boys higher secondary school

Secondary school

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 and a girls elementary school

Elementary school

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.

Akhori Dam

Akhori Dam

Akhori Dam

The Akhori Dam Project is one of the projects of Water Vision 2025, which is proposed by the former Pakistan Muslim League 's Government. The dam will stored about 8.6 billion cubic meters of water that is split filling the Tarbela reservoir during the monsoon season.-Controversy:The local people...

 Project is one of the projects of Vision 25 Program, which is proposed by the former Pakistan Muslim League (Q)

Pakistan Muslim League (Q)

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's Government.