Sanjwal Cantonment
Sanjwal Cantonment is a cantonment town in Attock district, Punjab (Pakistani province), Punjab province, Pakistan.https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/pakistan/cantt-sanjwal.htm Many workers from the Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) reside in this town. This is a small cantonment having an area of 2.5 square Kilometers. This cantonment consist a government housing colony named as Prime Minister Housing colony POF Sanjwal. References

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Cantonment
A cantonment (, , or ) is a military quarters. In Bangladesh, India and other parts of South Asia, a ''cantonment'' refers to a permanent military station (a term from the British India, colonial-era). In military of the United States, United States military parlance, a cantonment is, essentially, "a permanent residential section (i.e. barrack) of a fort or other military installation," such as Fort Hood. The word ''cantonment'', derived from the French language, French word '':fr:canton, canton'', meaning ''corner'' or ''district'', refers to a temporary military or winter encampment. For example, at the start of the Waterloo campaign in 1815, while the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Duke of Wellington's headquarters were in Brussels, most of his Anglo–allied army of 93,000 soldiers were ''cantoned'', or stationed, to the south of Brussels. List of permanent cantonments Afghanistan The former Sherpur Cantonment in Kabul, Afghanistan, which was the site of the Siege ...
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