Dewal

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instance ofunion council of Pakistan

countryPakistan

located in the administrative territorial entityRawalpindi District

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Country: Pakistan
Province: Punjab
District: Murree
Tehsil: Murree
• MNA: Sardar Noor Khan
• Total: 11,052

Dewal also known as Dewal Sharif is a Union council of Murree Tehsil, a sub division of Murree District in the Punjab province of Pakistan.

According to the 1998 census of Pakistan it had a population of 11,052.

Dewal and Dewal Shareef

Dewal is a Sanskrit word means a small temple, but Pir Abdul Majid (Pir Sahib Dewal Shareef) who migrated to Rawalpindi in mid fifties last century and established a shrine with the support of Ex-President of Pakistan General Ayub Khan, in Faizabad between Islamabad and Rawalpindi translated and Islamized Hindu small temple common noun Dewal into Dewal Shareef.

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Dewal

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