Azakhel Bala

Azakhel Bala is a village in Pabbi Tehsil of Nowshera District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is popularly known as Kowi- Azakhel (Pashto for a water well), Azakhel of the (water) well, as for more than a century, travellers used to stop here for water, accompanied by a mosque for prayer and a stable for horses. It lies along the Grand Trunk Road and Kabul River (Abasin) some 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) west of Nowshera. The village lays as a slope to the Cherat Valley down till the G.T Road and then extends to the Kabul River.[1] The majority of the population of Azakhel Bala are engaged in agriculture, mainly potatoes, sugar cane, wheat, corn, tomato, cucumber and numerous other vegetables. According to the Pakistan Forest Institute, "pale yellow silt-stone forms the soil parent material near Azakhel Bala village."[2] The land is mostly marshy. For over more than thirty years, the village hosted one of the largest remaining Afghan refugee camps located here until 2010, which ended when flood devastated the whole area in July, that year[1]

Azakhel Bala
Town
Azakhel Bala Location in Pakistan
Coordinates: 33°59′37″N 71°49′15″E
Country	Pakistan
Region	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
District	Nowshera District
Population  (25000)
• Total	25,000
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)