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'''Bhurban''' ({{langx|ur| بھوربن }}) is a small town and a hill station in Muree District, Punjab, Pakistan on the edge of Hazara, Pakistan. The resort town is named after a nearby forest. It is located approximately {{convert|11|km}} from Murree city.<ref name="Bhurban">{{cite web|url=http://www.tdcp.gop.pk/tdcp/Destinations/MountainsHillStations/Bhurban/tabid/300/Default.aspx|title=Bhurban|publisher=Tourism Development Corporation of Punjab (TDCP)|access-date=27 October 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001032819/http://www.tdcp.gop.pk/tdcp/Destinations/MountainsHillStations/Bhurban/tabid/300/Default.aspx|archive-date=1 October 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Bhurban on map |url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Murree/Bhurban,+Rawalpindi,+Punjab,+Pakistan |website=Google Maps |access-date=19 September 2019}}</ref>
==Location== {{unreferenced section|date=July 2025}}Bhurban is situated in between Murree and Kashmir Road at a height of about 6000 feet. It has been made accessible by the dual Islamabad-Murree Expressway, approximately a 50-km drive from Islamabad, the federal capital of Pakistan.
==Tourism== {{unreferenced section|date=July 2025}}thumb|200px|right|Bhurban has a wide range of tourist facilities. [[File:Pearl Continental Bhurban.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Pearl Continental Bhurban - 5 star hotel in the town]] Bhurban is a tourist destination with unique flora, and a fauna with a variety species not found elsewhere in Pakistan.{{citation needed|date=May 2019}} It is known for the hiking trails in the nearby Ayubia National Park. The '5 star' Pearl Continental Hotel - Mount Pleasant Apartments is one of several resorts in Bhurban that serve tourists visiting the Murree Hills and the national park. Bhurban also has a nine-hole golf course. Another resort in Bhurban is the Bhurban Hill Apartments, located 2 km from PC Bhurban. It has its own source of natural mineral water.{{citation needed|date=May 2019}}. Many important personals from all over the world visited Bhurbun which were Nelson Mandela, King Hussain of Jordan and many others.
==Residents== Bhurban's main tribes are Dhunds (called Abbasis), Janyals, and Ahmedals, many of them being indigenous descendants of Muslim hill tribes who have lived here for centuries.<ref>Dani, AH 'Hill tribes of Northern and NW Pakistan' Islamabad, 1982, pp 102-109</ref> Many of these tribes converted to Islam during the 14th to 15th centuries AD.<ref>Dani aa, 102</ref> Most of them still live simple rural lives, whilst a number of them have gone on to seek education and jobs in the plains, in Rawalpindi and Islamabad and even further afield.<ref>Punjab Report on Employment, pub Lahore: Govt of Punjab, 1991</ref>
The soil produced big names from Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (former Prime Minister of Pakistan) to generals in army.{{citation needed|date=July 2025}} The political influences as Late. Raja Ashfaq Sarwar one of the most honored. Sardar Noor Khan Abbasi was also a overwhelming personality from Bhurban.
==Administration== {{unreferenced section|date=July 2025}}The Rawat Union Council is also responsible for managing Bhurban. Rawat village is the headquarters of the Union Council of Rawat, which is an administrative sub-division of Murree Tehsil, in the Murree District of Punjab.
==See also== *Murree *Ayubia National Park *Darya Gali *List of hill stations of Pakistan {{commons category|Bhurban}}
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