Kohalla Bridge
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The Kohala Bridge across the Jhelum River, a tributary of the Indus, forms part of one of the routes from the Pakistani-controlled region of Kashmir to the rest of Pakistan.
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[edit] Kohala and Kohala Bridge
The bridge is located at the town of Kohala, 38 km north of Murree and 29 km south of Muzaffarabad. A suspension bridge was constructed in 1877 and vanished in an 1890 flood. A new transportable steel bridge was constructed in 1899 and in 1990 it too vanished in a flood. A third bridge was constructed on the north edge of Union Council Berote kalan, Abbottabad District, in 1993. Old Western Kohala is changed as a Paradize Lost. A rest house, telegraph office ruined and destroyed. A workshop is opened there. Police Choke of Bakote Police Station is situated there with an ASI and 12 constables. Mentioned police patrolling on Kashmir Highway and Upper Dewal Kohala Road north end of Birote, meting point of Punjab and NWFP. Kohala is 21 KM of the south of AJK capital Muzafferabad, 22 KM north of Murree, one miles east of Bakote on Rawalpindi Sri Nagar High Way.
[edit] The Origin of Kohala
Word Kohala belonged to famous Sheve goddess Kohala Dawi because Kohala was a place where Hindu deities worshiped on the bank of Watesta (Jhelum) River before Islam. A temple called Dawal was there. An other tradition by local Dhondi language expert and historian Mohammed Obaidullah Alvi Kohala is derived from Dhondi Language word Kohal. Kohal means cattle room or house that partitioned in living room in ancient time or separate or beneath of living house in modern era. The substitute of Kohal is Gotrerhi where livestock urinating and sitting. Kohala is a place where carwans from Kashmir stayed after crossing Jhelum River and their horses and dunkies were tied there in ancient past. There are two Kohalas in region; one is on both banks of river Jhelum and a Kohala Bala at Lora, a UC of District Abbottabad. Two Kohalas are in Hawaii USA Research is on.
[edit] History
Kohala was a bossiness centre in eighteenth century and developed by Malka Sing of Rawalpindi and Dogra government of Kashmir. The old name of Kohala was Patan and it changed in 1863 by Sir James Abbott, 1st commissioner of Hazara. British government built a rest house in the south of Kohala for high officials with seven drying rooms, two kitchens, and one reading room. Two toilets and a hors and dog room. The Indian olive, banana, apple and silkworm trees were in gust house eastern lawn. Gust house staff was contained on 30 people. A telegraph cum post office established there in 1880. Allama Iqbal (Poet of the East) staying in this rest house in 1930 and wrote his famous poem HAMMALA, the 1st poem of his book Bang-e-Dra here. The bazaar of Kohala was most populated till 1947. Hindu merchants from Dewal, Murree, Rawalpindi and Punch were totally controlled trade between Punjab and Kashmir. They looted locals, bought raw material against lowest prices and resale them 100 time high prices. In 1947 local people kohala set on fire and all Hindu merchants flew away to Punjab and Kashmir. India twice bombarded on Kohala but failed in every attempt. Mohammed Ali Jinnah (Founder of Pakistan), Sir Mohammed Iqbal (Poet of the East), Jowher Lal Nehroo (1st PM of India) and many freedom fighter came Kohala and entered in Kashmir crossing over the Kohala Bridge.
[edit] Who is the proprietor of Kohala?
Kohala was a land of Hindu godsess Kohala Dewi in ancient time. Mid of 500 BCE kohala become a center of Bhuddist community and a temple constrected between Kohala and Knair Pull. It was a ruite of Budist monks for traveling from Texila to Sharda Budhist university in Sharda, Kashmir. Kohala possessed by Karhral tribe in mid of eighteenth century and in 1200 when Dhond Abbasi tribe attacked on Karhral tribe. They vacated Bakote and Kohala also. From this time Kohala was under the proprietor ship of Birote. When Mojwal family of Dhond Abbasi tribe migrated to Bakote by force, than Kohala proprieter ship transferred to Mojwals of Bakote. In 1st decade of 1800, Malka Sing, administrator of Rawalpindi captured Kohala by force, constructed new buildings and sold to Hindu merchants. British government transfer Kohala administratingly with Murree on one hundred year lease basis in 1873, Punjab government renewned yhis lease in 1973 for 20 years and it reunited with Bakote in 1993. A girls College is proposed by Punjab government in 1991 but not possible by change of lease condition but a primmery scool is oprating there with Rawalpindi Education Department funding till now. In 1997 ex-chief minister of NWFP Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan Abbasi prposed to buy mentioned Kohala rest house where he wanted to construct a three star personal hotel for tourists on commercial basis but this deal with Public Works Department (PWD) Punjab not melted into reality due to his government collaps in 1999. People of region demanding new proposed building of Bakote Police Station there so that every person of Circle Bakote can access to Police and resolve his problem. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohala_Bridge"
