Kahuta Tehsil (Urdu: کہوٹہتحصیل ) 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:

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

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.

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.

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.

Within the week, the whole site was acquired by theMinistry of Defense, and the army truckloads, heavyengineering vehicles arrived the next day to re-built thesite. Soon, the site was classified and abandoned forpublic with only few allowed toresides.The Engineering ResearchLaboratories (now KRL) was established by Zulfikar AliBhutto as a research government national facilityunder the Ministry of Defense.

Geography

Kahuta is situated in the Himalayan foothillsin Rawalpindi District of Pakistan's Punjab Province,approximately 48 km southeast of Pakistan'scapital, Islamabad.

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.

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.

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)

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.

A hilltop restaurant and hotel is there for those whowant to stay

Mostly people come from distant places to havesome peace in Kahuta.

They also go to fishing at dam in kahuta.

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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;

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.