What’s in a name?

There seems to be a great deal of confusion with regard to the name of a now important town called Bhara Kahu – Sector 4 in Islamabad. Nargis Zaman Kiani (87) is a former senator and a well known and respected person in the area. He is the original inhabitant of this town and owned most of the land on which Bhara Kahu is built.
According to Kiani, there was an old olive tree among a few mud huts when the population of the town was only about 30 people. Now it exceeds a million. One fine day the people of this small hamlet declared that this olive tree has a djinn living on it and they called it Bhara, meaning heavy. And an olive tree in the Pothohari language is called Kahu. Hence Bhara Kahu became the name of this small village. It sounds rather romantic when translated into English as ‘the haunted olive tree’. It has nothing to do with 12 miles as most people think it means. The Convention Centre Islamabad is 5.5 miles while Rawalpindi is 18 miles away.
Asad A Khan
London
UK