The district of Chakwal carved out of three adjoining districts (Jehlum, Attock, Pind Dadan Khan) in 1985, has many claims to fame.
The district of Chakwal carved out of three adjoining districts (Jehlum, Attock, Pind Dadan Khan) in 1985, has many claims to fame. History is one of them. Its potential for tourism, both natural and religious, is another, while its mines and minerals set it apart from many other areas. Its recently realised potential to produce enough olives to reduce the national edible oil bill has given the district an added significance.
An area inhabited since the middle ages, it has Shri Katas Raj Temples a 1000-year-old complex of temples revered and frequented by the Hindus and people like the former Indian Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani. Next to it lays the ruins of Malot Fort, another 12-century relic dilapidated but still standing. Takhat-e- Babari, a stone-made stage built by the maker of the Mughal Dynasty Zaheer-ud-Din Babar to address his army at