Monday, 11 July 2022

A Hindu Temple in Pind Dadan Khan (2015)

Visited this place on April 5, 2015

Pind Dadan Khan lies six miles south of the Khewra Salt (Salt Mine), 24 miles east of Lillah-Toba road between the M2, and 8 km east of Pither Nadi. Its borders with Khushab, Chakwal, Sargodha and Mandibahudin.

During British rule, it became the capital of secession and tehsil with a similar name in the Jhelum region of British Punjab. It was located in the Sind-Sagar branch of the North-Western Railway. The municipality was established in 1867 and most of the money was collected by the British authorities as octroi. The village of Nandana near Pind Dadan Khan is where Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad Al-Biruni came and founded the laboratory where we are now

A pre-partition Hindu still stands in Pind Dadan Khan, it was used by the Hindu community for their religious rituals before 1947. It is in an extremely dilapidated state because no step has been done for its restoration or protection.