Dewal also known as Dewal Sharif is a

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, a sub division of

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in the

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province of

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. According to the 1998 census of Pakistan it had a population of 11,052.

Dewal and Dewal Shareef

Dewal is a

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word means a small temple, but Pir Abdul Majid (Pir Sahib Dewal Shareef) who migrated to

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in mid fifties last century and established a

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with the support of Ex-

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General

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, in Faizabad between

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and Rawalpindi translated and Islamized

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small temple common noun Dewal into Dewal Shareef.

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