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'Fateh Jang' (Fatehjang / Fatehjung / Fatehgarh / Fatehgunj / Fatehganj) is small town of Attock District in the Punjab province of Pakistan.

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Location

Administration

Industry

Villages of Fateh Jang Tehsil

Location

It is located nearly 25 miles (as the crow flies) southwest of Islamabad, Pakistan, on the Rawalpindi-Kohat or the Rawalpindi-Mianwali road. The new location of Islamabad International Airport is on the Rawalpindi-Fateh Jang Road and construction has started.

Administration

Fateh Jang town is the headquarters of a tehsil (a subdivision) of oil-rich Attock District. It is in the National Assembly constituency from where Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz was elected before taking oath as Prime Minister of Pakistan. It has a police station, a tehsil headquarters hospital and separate intermediate colleges for boys and girls.

Industry

It has a large glass industry Khawaja Glass Industries, Two Ghee Mills, Atta Mills, Bricks Bhattas, A food processing unit SAMARDAY ilyas, wise foods. A cattle market is held at Fateh Jang on every Thursday. Four roads originate from Fateh Jang which link this town with Kohat, Attock, Rawalpindi/Islamabad and Khaur.
There are also some oil fields in Tehsil fatehjang.
There are a number of development works underway in the town. The road passing through the town towards Kohat has been widened and cleaned. The local population is very friendly and welcome the new purchasers of plots in the town. There are great opportunities for the upper middle class of Rawalpindi/Islamabad to buy plots for themselves here and secure their future.

Villages of Fateh Jang Tehsil

★ SUKHWAL is small village at Fatehjang-Mianwali road about 63 km from Islamabad and 28 km from Fatehjang, although lees in number but rich in its cultural values, its amazing to visit this place.It is just touching the main road and after Dhurnal (from Fathejang side), a famous Oil and Gas field.

★ Thatti Gujran is a modern village some 6 km from town centre. It has a population of about 1500-2000 people.Several private vehicles serve the route between town centre and the village. Thatti gujran has two girl's and one boy's primary school.Its water supply system was sponsored by Asian development bank. People of the village are Sunni Muslims. They celebrate religious festivals with great zeal and zest. They are moderate as compared to conservative population of Attock district.

★ Gali Jagir is a village at Fatehjang-Mianwali road about 15 km from town centre. The people of Gali Jagir are very friendly. It has middle schools both for boys and girls. A Basic Health Unit (BHU) to provide health facilities. It is very beautiful village surrounded by mountains. It has gas mixing station of Sui Southern Gas Limited, from there Sui gas is supplied to several cities of Punjab. The work on water supply scheme is going on. A new link road from Islamabad-Lahore motorway at Chakri Interchange to Fatehjang-Mianwali road is passing from here.