Sudhnoti District

Sudhanoti (Urdu: ضلع سدھنوتی) is a district of Azad Kashmir in Pakistan.

Sudhanoti was the main site from where struggle against dogras and British imperialists was made. It remained the capital of Azad Kashmir and Jammu before it was shifted to Muzaffarabad. It was named Sudhanoti in 2000 as a new district of Azad Kashmir and Jammu in the honor of the Sudhan tribe.

Administration

The district is divided into four tehsils

Notable people
  • Kiran Imran Dar, Member National Assembly (MNA) Pakistan
  • Aziz Khan, General of the Pakistan Army and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee[1]
  • Khan Muhammad Khan, Politician and the Chairman of the War Council during the 1947 Poonch Rebellion[2]

Population

Sudhnati has a population of 242,000. Kiyani/Gakhhars, Awan, Khwaja, Sudhan, Qureshi, Mughal and Dar are main tribes of this area.

References
  1. Bhattacharya, Samir (2014). NOTHING BUT!. Partridge Publishing. p. 228. ISBN 978-1-48281-787-4.
  2. "Introduction". Khan Sahib Government College of Technology, Rawalkot. Retrieved 14 October 2018.



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