Choa Khalsa is a town and union council of

Kallar Syedan Tehsil Kallar Syedan is a tehsil in the Rawalpindi District, Punjab, Pakistan. Earlier a part of the Kahuta Tehsil, it became a separate tehsil on 1 July 2004. Kallar Syedan is the capital of the tehsil. Demography According to the 2017 census of Pak ...

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. The town consists of 800 houses. On 1 July 2004, Choa Khalsa became a union council.

History

The word "choa" means water spring, and

Khalsa The term ''Khalsa'' refers to both a community that follows Sikhism as its religion,Khalsa: Sikhism< ...

is related to

Sikhism Sikhism is an Indian religion and Indian philosophy, philosophy that originated in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent around the end of the 15th century CE. It is one of the most recently founded major religious groups, major religio ...

. Khalsa is a strict Sikh religious order founded in 1699 by

Guru Gobind Singh Guru Gobind Singh (; born Gobind Das; 22 December 1666 – 7 October 1708) was the tenth and last human Sikh gurus, Sikh Guru. He was a warrior, poet, and philosopher. In 1675, at the age of nine he was formally installed as the leader of the ...

. The term "Khalsa" is an Arabic word. There are various interpretations to the term "Khalsa. One general meaning of the term is "free from impurities" or "pure". This term is also defined as the land or estate which belongs directly to the king, without any intermediary claims of lords, nobles or farmers to the same in the Rawalpindi District. Some villages go by the name of Dera Khalsa, Thoa Khalsa, or Choa Khalsa. They were so named because they were state owned villages during Sikh rule in

. Choa Khalsa village is located about 60 km from Rawalpindi. It was one of the villages affected by the 1947 Rawalpindi massacres. In March 1947, Pashtun tribals along with the

Muslim League National Guard Muslim League National Guards, or Muslim National Guards, was the name of a quasi-paramilitary organization associated All-India Muslim League that took part in the Pakistan Movement. The organisation was active in the violence that led up to ...

attacked this village, looted, and raped and forced local Sikh women to convert to

Islam Islam is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Quran, and the teachings of Muhammad. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number Islam by country, 2 billion worldwide and are the world ...

. 150 Sikhs were killed in total. This barbaric attack set in motion a mass killing spree in the whole of the

Punjab region Punjab (; ; also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb) is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern Pakistan and no ...

. Many Sikh women chose to drown themselves in a well in an act of mass suicide.

Villages

*Choa Khalsa *Chullo Mirgala *Dhoke Ch Feroze Khan *Dhoke Kanyal *Dhok Dulal Qureshi *Khanada *Muhalla Akbari *Takal *Mohra Heran *Dhok Baba Balandiyan *Dhok Sadiq abad *Dhoke Gohar wali Takal *Pehr Hali *Rajam *Dhok Bangyal *Dhok Sangal *Khanadah *Mohalla Akbri *Sahot Hayal *Sahot Kalyal *Sahot Badhal *Barri Bunn *Mohra Nagrial *Dhok Muqaddam *Ghadur *Mirghala Khalsa *Mohra Nagrial *Mohalla Rajgaan *Mangal Rajgan

Choa Khalsa Circle Union Councils

Choa Khalsa is center of six union councils. After Delimitation 2018 Choa Khalsa Circle 6 Union Councils of

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.and in PP-7 (Rawalpindi-II) of Punjab Assembly.

Notable people

* Abdul Aziz Mirza, Chief of Naval Staff, ambassador to Saudi Arabia

References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20151208165732/http://www.pothwar.com/tehkallar Union councils of Kallar Syedan Tehsil Populated places in Kallar Syedan Tehsil Towns in Kallar Syedan Tehsil Union councils of Rawalpindi District {{Rawalpindi-geo-stub