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Introduction of Joharabad
Jauharabad is a planned town situated in Khushab District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan. It has a population of approximately 40,000 and it is the district headquarters of Khushab District.
Jauharabad is named after Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar, a prominent figure from the Pakistan independence movement. The etymology of the Urdu word "Jauharabad" also means "atomic city" in English, although this is purely coincidential as the town was planned and constructed 33 years prior to the construction of the nearby Khushab Nuclear Complex, which lies 30 km south of Jauharabad.
Situated roughly in the strategic centre of Pakistan's east-west axis (which was one of the reasons for it originally being selected as the site of Pakistan's federal capital in the early 1950s), Jauharabad lies within close proximity of some of Pakistan's most important strategic installations:
- 45 KM east of Jauharabad lies Pakistan's largest air force base, PAF Base Mushaf and the Central Ammunition Depot (CAD), both of which are in Sargodha
- 30 KM south of Jauharabad lies the Khushab Nuclear Complex, which houses Pakistan's principal plutonium processing and heavy water production facilities
- 42 KM north-east of Jauharabad lies PAF Base Sakesar, one of the primary air defence radar stations in Pakistan
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