Daurdad

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Daurdad is a well-known village in Tehsil of the Attock District some twenty three kilometres to the northeast of the district headquarters, in the Punjab state of Pakistan. It is a very old and historic village with a population of 5000.

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Daurdad is an agricultural area.

Prominent Muslim Leaguer Late Khan Muhammad Yaqoob Khan of Daurdad was an active member of Pakistan Movement. After creation of Pakistan he did a lot of work for development of this poor and backward area and now there are all basic facilities like roads, schools, electricity and telephone etc.All street paths of the village are constructed with cement etc.

Mohammad Ismail Khan 53, a prominent journalist and Resident Editor of Pakistan Press International Islamabad, who served 30 years as a journalist was brutally murdered on the night of 31st October 2006, under mysterious circumstances in Islamabad, and he was buried on 2nd of November in his native graveyard of village Daurdad union council Golra Tehsil and District Attock.He also did rememberable work for development of his native area.District Council Attock, Union Council Golra held special meetings to remember the services of Ismail Khan and announced Peoples Colony Attock Chowk and Daurdad link road as Ismail Khan Shaheed Chowk and road.The people of Daurdad arranged a big gathering to remember the services of Shaheed Ismail Khan where Politicians, Parliamentarians, Journalists, Lawyers, Socialworkers and Notable personalities of the are paid rich tributes to him.

There is Digital Telephone Exchange with 400 lines in daurdad to facilitate the people of daurdad and surrounding ares. There is also Boys Higher Secondary School and Girls Elementary School for the children of this area.There is great need to start Higher Secondary Classes in Boys Higher Secondary School Daurdad to provide better education facilities to the poor children of more than thirty villages of three tehsils Attock, Hassanabdal and Fatehjang.There is also great demand for functioning of high classes in Girls Elementary School Daurdad.

There is sub branch post office and there are also shops and general stores and three mosques in the village.There is shrine of Hazrat Chan Peer Bokhari. People of daurdad are well educated and well mannered and working in different departments like Pak Army, Education,P.O.F Wah and Sanjwal, PAC Kamra etc.Some people of daurdad working abroad also.

There were also few homes of Hindus before 1947 who left Daurdad permanently with the announcement of independency of Indo-Pak. Government has proposed "Akhori Dam" in this area but people of the area are against this proposed Akhori Dam because more than twenty villages including Daurdad would be wipe off from the map.