2. Kahuta Tehsil (Urdu: تحصیل کہوٹہ ) is one of the
seven tehsils (subdivisions) of Rawalpindi Districts in
the Punjab Province of Pakistan. The neighboring tehsil
of Kotli Satiyan used to be part of Kahuta, but was later
created as a separate tehsil.
The tehsil is administratively divided into 13 Union
Councils, two of which form the city of Kahuta; these
are:
3. UC
Uc-30
Uc-31
Uc-32
Uc-33
Uc-34
Uc-35
Uc-36
Uc-37
Uc-38
Uc-39
Uc-47
Uc-48
Uc-116
Uc-117
Name of Union
Narh
Punjar
Khadiot
Doberan Khurd
Mowara
Beor
Matore
Nara
Dakhali
Hothla
Kahuta I
Kahuta II
Khalol
Lehri
4. According to the 1998 census of Pakistan, Kahuta
has a total population of 153,000. Many clans are
living in Kahuta like Sheikhs,Janjuas,Raja,
Abbasis, Satti,Gakhars, Narma and many more
castes are also present now because city expands
day by day but they are smaller in numbers.
The population of the Kahuta Tehsil is approximately
160,000 at the 2008 census.
Kahuta is the home to the Kahuta Research
Laboratories (KRL) which was founded to undertake
the Kahuta Project as part of the Atomic bomb
project. Before the Kahuta Project, the site was
occupied by retired officers of Pakistan.
5. Armed Forces and contained a small public community,
including a private high school.
Kahuta was a small incorporated city until the 1970s
when KRL was constructed by the Pakistan Army Corps
of Engineers under Engineering officer Major-
General Zahid Ali Akbar.
6. During the 1960s and 1970s, Kahuta was inhabited by
retired officers of the Pakistan Armed Forces
In the 1970s, the Ministry of Defense was tasked
by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to search for a
remote location for carrying out atomic and weapon-testing
experiments for the integrated atomic bomb
project in 1976.
The residents of Kahuta were paid handsomely and were
re-located in populated cities of Pakistan.
The Uranium Coordination Board (UCB) headed by
Ghulam Ishaq Khan financed the reconstruction of the
site. Major-General Zahid Ali Akbar and later completed
the drawings, surveying and measured the area aerially.
7. Within the week, the whole site was acquired by the
Ministry of Defense, and the army truckloads, heavy
engineering vehicles arrived the next day to re-built the
site. Soon, the site was classified and abandoned for
public with only few allowed to
resides.The Engineering Research
Laboratories (now KRL) was established by Zulfikar Ali
Bhutto as a research government national facility
under the Ministry of Defense.
Geography
Kahuta is situated in the Himalayan foothills
in Rawalpindi District of Pakistan's Punjab Province,
approximately 48 km southeast of Pakistan's
capital, Islamabad.
8. There are many picnic spots like Narar (Narh), Azad
Pattan, Tlaitar and Beyore kotli sattian .
The area is noted for its wildlife and hunting. Pahari-
Potwari is spoken in this region.
9. Both nationally and internationally, Kahuta is famous for
home to the Khan Research Laboratories, one of the
largest government national research facility and
laboratories
Abdul Qadeer Khan served as the chief scientist of
the Kahuta Research Laboratories and under his
supervision Pakistan became the Nuclear power.
Kahuta-NARH
Beautiful deep Jungle, calm greenery with lots of water
falls & streams.There are only two rest houses available
in the area.One at the Top & one in the base of the
valley.Both owned by Pakistan Forest Department.
Its top altitude is 7000 ft equal to Murree.
10. Very little population. Only 1 town, Mobile signals
all available, electricity available. Ideal place for a
weekend stay as well as camping.
This place has lots of potential for
Photography as well as trekking.
It’s a place where Fun Begins Where Road Ends.
There are many recreational places in kahuta,
people go there for amusement.
Takes apx. an hour(without traffic)
11. Suburbs of kahuta are worth-seeing, at about 30 minutes
of drive from main city , there is a very beautiful hilltop
place (Punjar) whose scenery.
12. A hilltop restaurant and hotel is there for those who
want to stay
Mostly people come from distant places to have
some peace in Kahuta.
They also go to fishing at dam in kahuta.
13. .
There are 4 big colleges and 8 schools in kahuta, out of
which 2 are government institutions, few technical centers,
academies, tuition centers are also available in kahuta.
In the main city, only 2 big bakers are available, all others
are small and do not have much quality available.
The greatest advantage of kahuta is that it is most peaceful
and calm city, rush; hustle or pollution is not much there.
But there are disadvantages too:
Schools, Colleges are insufficient
No university is there for which people must have to migrate
to nearby cities, i.e; RWP and ISB.
No job facilities, people can avail job only at schools,
colleges and KRL provides jobs to people, but these are
inadequate;
14. people have to migrate.
Those people who do not migrate because of their
business issues, their children travel daily from kahuta
to Pindi or Isb for educational or job purposes.
Though KRL has made kahuta a known place, but it
also restricted the inhabitants to claim for a university
there or they cannot avail other jobs.
Foreigners are not allowed in kahuta because of
research labs, inhabitants are not allowed to make
videos in kahuta.
Kahuta is not making progress because of KRL.
In spite of; all these disadvantages we love our city and
want it to make progress.