Kakra is a village in Mirpur District

Mirpur District

Mirpur District is a district in the disputed and divided state of [Jammu and Kashmir]. The district is named after the main city, Mirpur. The District of Mirpur has a population of 371,000 and covers an area of . The district is mainly mountainous with some plains...

 of Azad Kashmir

Azad Kashmir

Azad Jammu and Kashmir or Azad Kashmir for short, is the southernmost political entity within the Pakistani-administered part of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir...

, Pakistan

Pakistan

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. situated at coordinates 33°7'33"N 73°52'47"E. The nearest village is Potha Bainsi

Potha Bainsi

Potha Bainsi is a village in Mirpur District of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. The nearest town is Kakra....

. It is 26 km from the city of Jhelum

Jhelum

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History

Its old name is Kakra and new name is Kakra Town. New Kakra Town was built in 1964 as the old Kakra village was engulfed by the waters of Mangla Lake, after the constructions of the Mangla Dam

Mangla Dam

The Mangla Dam is located on the Jhelum River in the Mirpur District of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. It is the sixteenth largest dam in the world. It was built from 1961 to 1967 with funding from the World Bank. The project was designed and supervised by Binnie & Partners of London, and it was built...

. As a result of the building of the dam, the residents of old Kakra either moved to new Kakra or migrated to Punjab

Punjab (Pakistan)

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 and Sindh

Sindh

Sindh historically referred to as Ba'ab-ul-Islam , is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. It is also locally known as the "Mehran". Though Muslims form the largest religious group in Sindh, a good number of Christians, Zoroastrians and Hindus can...

province of Pakistan.
Chairman Malik is the leader of Kakra town. He can take on anyone. Everyone in the mirpur area is scared of him. He is a gangster. akhtar of kakra town walsall tryed to kill chairman malik saab. he paid the gangsters to shoot him but hes plan failed and chairman saab got shot 2 times but still was alive and now he will take his revenge. akhtars grandson awais was in kakra and was acting big. chairman saabs soldiers were going to take there revenge but awais ran away like a pussy to islamabad. he was thinking he is bad and when chairman saabs soldiers hit him he run away in his car. if he cums to kakra now we will not leave him