Kathua

Kathua is a city and a Municipal Council in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir, close to its southern outskirt with Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. Kathua is additionally called 'the city of Sufis' or ' Dawlat Auliya' inferable from the nearness of extensive number of Sufi Shrines of Pirs. The city is likewise the door to the state and a major modern town with armed force nearness. Kathua alongside its satellite township of Lakhanpur in J&K and the close-by city of Pathankot in Punjab establish the Kathua-Pathankot twin city urban territory.

"Kathua" is gotten from "Thuan" in Dogri which signifies "Scorpions". Some trust that its name is gotten from the name of Rishi Kashyap who masked himself as a tortoise Kachua for solid contemplation. Jodh Singh of the Andotra family is accepted to have moved from Hastinapur to Kathua about 2,000 years prior. His three children set up the three Hamlets of Taraf Tajwal, Taraf Manjali and Taraf Bhajwal. These villas later advanced into cutting edge Kathua.

Kathua is only 80 km far from Jammu city and 120 km from Katra. Basoli is only 72 km from it. Transports for longer separations and bullfighters little transports for shorter separations are the principle wellsprings of transportation in Kathua. Bullfighters little transports keep running on significant streets of the city. They likewise associate city with close-by towns. The transport travel from Kathua to Jammu is roughly 1.5 hours.