Wooden Huts of Kutton Valley and Upper Jigran

2011-2014

I have visited this unexplored valley many times in past. My purpose of visit was trekking and site visits for future hydropower projects. The bewitching beauty of Kutton permeated in the radius of 10 kilometers, makes Jagran Valley. The area is 16 kilometers from Kundal Shahi, is accessible by an unpaved road. For the convenience of tourists, the tourism department has constructed two angler's huts.

It is 74 kilometers from Muzaffarabad. Here, Jagran Nallah joins river Neelum which is being developed for trout fishing. In this blog, I am going to share pictures of wooden huts photographed by me randomly in   different years of past.

Red Fort Muzaffarabad

20 November, 2012

The Red fort is a witness to the ancient history of this great city. Muzaffarabad Fort, generally known as Red Fort, traces back a chequered history. It is said that construction of the Fort was initially taken up by the Chuk rulers to counter the offensives of the intruders. However, Sultan Muzaffarabad Khan, the founder of Muzaffarabad town, finally completed it in 1646. During the Mughal rule in Kashmir this Fort lost its importance, as they were more interested in other parts of their empire. But when Durrani’s took over the rule of this area, it again came into limelight and its importance was recovered.

Afterwards during the Dogra rule of Maharaja Ghulab Singh and Maharaja Ranbir Singh, the Fort was reconstructed and extended according to their political and militarily requirements. However, towards the end of 1947, the Dogra’s fled away leaving the fort wide open to anybody. Since then it has braved devastating floods, ravage: of time, and other hazards to project its inherent glory and Historical background.

Baradari Village

06 January, 2015

Baradari village located somewhat 14 kilometer from Jalo Mor in outskirts of Lahore.

In order to reach Baradari village, one has to reach Manhala first after crossing BRB Canal near to  Jalo Mor; from Manhala you have to travel in north direction to reach Narwar village, which is further located at 5.5km distance; Bardari village located at distance of 0.95 km from Narwar village in east direction.

As its names reflects, once there was a magnificent Baradari present in this village and its surrounding there was a small Gurdwara as well. There were twelve rooms around the Baradari for Sikh pilgrims. Also, there was arched gateway at entrance. It was fallen during 1965 war. There are still some remains of floral paintings inside the Gurdwara. This place has stories of some gold buried by Sikhs, when they left this place during partition; and in search of this gold the surroundings of this Bara dari excavated many times.