چکوال ولیج پلیٹ فارم · Chakwal Village Platform

This is Dulmial.

Dulmial is a village on the Potohar plateau in Tehsil Choa Saidan Shah, District Chakwal, Punjab. Its land is dry and cut by ravines, and families farm wheat and groundnut on rain-fed fields, with the Salt Range to the south. The Katas Raj temples are about 3 km away, and Choa Saidan Shah about 6 km.

Dulmial is known across Pakistan as the "village with the gun." Since its foundation some eight centuries ago, it has provided the largest number of army men to the state. After the creation of Pakistan, it gave five lieutenant-generals and 23 brigadiers to the Pakistan Army.

The village's own story, in its people's words, is still to be told by the families who live here and by those who have gone abroad.

یہ گاؤں پورے پاکستان میں "بندوق والا گاؤں" کے نام سے جانا جاتا ہے۔ اپنی بنیاد کے بعد سے، تقریباً آٹھ صدیوں سے، اس نے ریاست کو فوجی جوانوں کی سب سے بڑی تعداد فراہم کی ہے۔ پاکستان بننے کے بعد اس نے پاک فوج کو پانچ لیفٹیننٹ جنرل اور تیئس بریگیڈیئر دیے۔

The village with the gun

Home town of gunners

Largest number of army men provided to the state

Five lieutenant-generals and 23 brigadiers in the Pakistan Army

Dulmial میں آپ کیا کروا سکتے ہیں

What we can do for a household in Dulmial.

Every service is included in your membership. Add jobs to the basket, name the house, and pay only for what is bought. Every job comes back signed, timed and placed.

Food and groceries

سودا سلف

Groceries to the door

Rs 500 · £1.43 per delivery

سودا گھر تک

Pick the items. Bought in Chakwal city, carried to the house you name, signed for at the door.

Health

صحت

Doctor visit

Rs 1,500 · £4.29 per visit

ڈاکٹر کے پاس

We take your family member to the clinic or doctor and bring them home. Fee paid on the spot and added to the receipt.

Medicine delivered

Rs 400 · £1.14 per trip

دوائی گھر تک

Send us the prescription on WhatsApp; we buy it in Chakwal and bring it to the door.

Bills and payments

بل اور ادائیگیاں

Pay a bill

Rs 300 · £0.86 per bill

بل کی ادائیگی

Electricity, gas, water or phone. Tell us the amount; we pay it in Chakwal and photograph the receipt back to you.

Cars and travel

گاڑی اور سفر

Car to Chakwal city

Rs 2,500 · £7.14 per trip

گاڑی شہر تک

A car from the village to Chakwal city and back, for a hospital, a bank or the bazaar.

Car to Islamabad airport

Rs 9,000 · £25.71 per trip

گاڑی ایئرپورٹ تک

Pick-up from the village door to Islamabad International, or the other way.

Cash in hand

نقد رقم

Cash handed over

Rs 500 · £1.43 per hand-over

نقد رقم

A monthly allowance, or a one-off, handed to the person you name with a signature, time and place.

Home and family

گھر اور خاندان

Home help

Rs 1,200 · £3.43 per visit

گھریلو مدد

A woman from the village team visits: shopping together, a hospital companion, help with the children or the house.

Done by the woman on the village team

Repair or tradesman

Quoted first

مرمت

Electrician, plumber, mason, roof. Tell us the job; we send someone and quote before anything is spent.

Anything else

کچھ اور

Something else