Chak No. 168/171 NB is a village in Sargodha District, Punjab, Pakistan. It is also known as by its public name ''Chak Mangla''

History

In the early 1900s, the British government, in order to drive rebels (like

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) out of the jungles of

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, decided to open

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, Lyallpur (now

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) and Montgomery (now

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) area for farming and residence. Sir

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and his engineers came up with the whole plan of various villages and instead of giving them typical names, the team chose to number them according to their location from water streams derived from the

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. The tribe of

Mangla Mangla (منگلا) is a town situated in District Mirpur within the region of Azad Kashmir. The village is located in the west of the foothills of Mangla's fort (which also derived its name from the same village). It is surrounded on three side ...

was selected to reside in two villages or Check(points) or Chaks: Chak No. 168 and 171. Tribal chiefs requested the local government to allow them to live in the same village, so some changes were made to the maps and they let it be Chak 168/171.

References

{{Sargodha-geo-stub Geography of Punjab, Pakistan Populated places in Sargodha District