Sahalia

Sahalia is a village in the Dadyal tehsil of Mirpur District, Azad Kashmir in Pakistan. Like much of Mirpur, Sahalia has deep connections with the UK. Many people originally from Sahalia have settled in,Reading, London, Birmingham and Manchester. Sahalia is no different from the rest of Mirpur, in the case of property and house building boom.the village of sahalia was established by the, gujjar banians and chauhan,clans, over 200 years a go. When the Mangla Dam was created in the 1960s, Sahalia escaped relatively unscathed, with only land on the periphery affected. However, plans to raise the Mangla reservoir further, south eastern part of Sahalia will be under water. Sahalia also has a long history of involvement in politics as well as an important contribution in the war of freedom against Maharaja in 1947. Haji Manga Khan and Subedar Fazal Elahi Chaudhary were leading persons in that war.