Malhoo is a village in the Chach Valley of Attock District

Attock District

Attock District is a district in the north-west Punjab Province of Pakistan.The district was created in April 1904 by the merger of Talagang Tehsil in the Jhelum District with the Pindigheb, Fatehjang and Attock tehsils from Rawalpindi District of the Punjab province of British India.Attock...

, Punjab

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, Pakistan

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Geography

Malhoo is situated six kilometres north of Kamra

Kamra

Kamra is located in Attock District in the mountainous north of the Punjab, Pakistan. The Pakistan Aeronautical Complex and PAF's Minhas Airbase are located in Kamra. It is the biggest air force base in whole of Pakistan...

 from Rawalpindi Pishawar GT Road and six kilometres south of the Indus River

Indus River

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. It is bordered on the north by Daman, on the east by Hameed, on the west by Kamalpur Musa

Kamalpur Musa

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, on the south by Shamsabad

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, and on the south-east by Saman

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 and green fields.

Population

The village was founded in 1785 when Malhoo Khan settled in the area from Kohat

Kohat

Kohat is a medium sized town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located at 33°35'13N 71°26'29E with an altitude of 489 metres and is the capital of Kohat District. The town centres around a British-era fort, various bazaars, and a military cantonment. A British-built narrow gauge...

. The majority of people are Pathan

Pathan

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 and belong to the Bangash

Bangash

Bangash is the name of a Pashtun clan. The Bangash clan inhabit regions within the Federally Administered Tribal Areas , the Kurram Agency, the Miranzai Valley bordering the Samana Range, Naryab, Tirah, Kohat and Peshawar within the Sarhad province...

 tribe. 30% of the people live in foreign countries (USA, UK, Hong Kong and Middle East), 20% are government employees, 35% work in agriculture, 10% have their own business. The literacy rate is 70%.

Educational

• Malhoo has one Girls' College.
• One Boys' Model High School.
• One Technical Training Institute for men, teaching vocational skills for electricians, plumbers, auto mechanics, computing and refrigeration/air conditioning.
• One Vocational Training Institute for women, teaching sewing, knitting, embroidery, cooking, baking, painting and computing.
• Six Mosques and one Madrasa, Jawahir ul Quran.

NGO

• Attock Education Trust: initially registered as "Gen. Jahandad Khan Education Trust", but later renamed "Attock Education Trust". Started with the purpose of promoting literacy and job opportunities through vocational institutes.

Other

In addition, the village has:

• A government hospital
• A post office.
• Two super marts and other gereral stores.
• Two private clinics serving in medical care.
• A bodybuilding gym for youngsters.
• "Janga Dhary", a historic palace.

Notable people

• Lt Gen Jahandad Khan, born in Malhoo in 1929, died 2011, chairman of the Pakistan Red Crescent Society, president of the Al-Shifa Eye Trust, founded many eye hospitals and won awards for his national and international humanitarian work to prevent blindness.