Khawaja Wardag Dera pathana | |
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Village | |
| Khawaja Wardag (Dera Pathana) | |
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| Country | India |
| State | Punjab |
| District | Gurdaspur |
| Tehsil | Dera Baba Nanak |
| Region | Majha |
| Government | |
| • Type | Panchayat raj |
| • Body | Gram panchayat |
| Area | |
• Total | 312 ha (771 acres) |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 1,348 734/614 ♂/♀ |
| • Scheduled Castes | 24 17/7 ♂/♀ |
| • Total Households | 242 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Punjabi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| Telephone | 01871 [1] |
| ISO 3166 code | IN-PB |
| Website | m |
Khawaja Wardag (Dera Pathana) is a village in Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur district of Punjab State.
Contents
- Demography
- Sarpanch Ram singh welcomes kabaddi player gurmukh singh he returned from Canada in 2011
- Youngsters cleaned the village and planted palm trees in 2019
- References
Khawaja Wardag is basically an Afghan Muslim village before partition. One of the member from Afghan tribe (Wardag Ismail Khan Kaka with his two sons left village "Shahniz" Ghazni Afghanistan in 1590 and settled in Kakedhir of India and this village given a new name Khawaja Wardag as small village on Batala dera baba nanak Road. Then Ismail Khan Kaka's two sons Sulaman Shah and Feroz Shah settled in other small towns and purchased a fortress or qilla and the given name was Qilla Afghan and the village subsequently became known as Kala Afghana. The history of village Khwaja Wardag and village Kala Afghana is directly interlinked with each other.
