# Haveli District

The Haveli District (Urdu: ضلع حویلی) is a district of Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. It is one of the 10 districts of the Pakistan-administered territory of Azad Kashmir. It was previously a tehsil of the Bagh District but was promoted to the district status on 1 July 2009.
According to the 2017 census, the district has a population of 152,124. The main native languages are Gojari language (estimated to be spoken by around 48% of the inhabitants), pahari (c. 45%), and Kashmiri (c. 07%). Haveli District has many tourism places such as:
1. Neelfairy (or Neilferi) 2. Hillan Waterfall 3. Mathatika 4. Sankh Meadows 5. Badori 6. Mahmood Gali 7. Darra Haji Peer 8. Lasdana 9. Sharu Dhara 10. Mangi Shaheed 11. Kalamula 12. Pajja Gali 13. pahala waterfall (Kalamula) 14.khariyan waterfall( UC Keerni Mandhar) 15.Rani Bagh 16. jabbi syedyan 17.bringbun and many more un explore tourist spots

## Administration

The Haveli District is divided into three tehsils:
* Haveli Tehsil (Kahuta)
* Khurshidabad Tehsil
* Mumtazabad Tehsil
The district has 12 union councils consisting of 95 villages and one municipal corporation, Forward Kahuta.

## Geography

The Haveli District is situated at a high altitude of approximately 8,000 feet above sea level. Heavy snowfall occurs regularly throughout the year. Darra Haji Peer, Lasdana, Sindhgala, Neel Kunth, Aliabad, Sheraziabad, Kalamula, Jabbi Syedan,hallan jaunbi and Mohri Syed Ali are all well known tourist locations. The Bedori Top, at 12,228 feet, is the highest peak in the district.*Many people from the district have migrated abroad, and some of them serve in key positions in Pakistan. The Haveli District is bounded on the north and north-east by the Baramulla District of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, on the south-east and south by the Poonch District of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, and on the west by the Bagh District and the Poonch District of Azad Kashmir. Historically this place was very important for all those emperor's that would wanted to establish their empire on the Northern areas and other parts of Kashmir. At that time the main power on this region was the Tanoli tribe and their state Amb Darband ruled By Malik Abdul Qadir (founder of free Amb Movement after independence), great-grandfather Mir Jahandad Khan Tanoli, was a tribal chief of the Tanoli people and the state headquarter was in Darband.
The Poonch region became part of the Sikh Empire in 1819 despite fierce resistance by the local mountain tribes. Maharaja Ranjit Singh gave it as a jagir to Raja Dhyan Singh, his Dogra wazir. Dhyan Singh and his descendants administered the region till the Partition of India in 1947. However, the maharajas of Jammu and Kashmir, who became the suzerains of the Poonch jagir after 1846, exerted increasing control over the region towards the end of the period.
Raja Baldev Singh constructed a road from Poonch to the Haji Pir pass via Kahuta, along with a suspension bridge over the Betar Nala near the town.[3] Later it appears to have been upgraded to a wooden bridge. It was burnt down by the Jammu and Kashmir State Forces stationed at Poonch during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, mistaking an Indian relief column sent via Uri to be an enemy attack. Nevertheless, a portion of the column under the command of Pritam Singh reached Poonch and helped the town survive the siege. This, however, led to the capture of this district by the Azad Kashmir Regular Force and its subsequent incorporation into Pakistan as part of the Azad Kashmir self-governing region.[4]