data. Heavy snowfall starts in January and February. Administration Murree is the municipal capital of Murree Tehsil, an administrative division of the Rawalpindi District. As well as being tehsil headquarters, Murree is also a Union Council, bounded to the north by Darya Gali and Rawat, to the west by Ghora Gali and Tret, to the south by Numbal and Mussiari, and to the east by Ghel and Angoori. Localities and Union Councils of the Murree area: Rawalpindi District Kohati KakRahi Bhurban Dewal Sharif Darya Gali Gulehra Gali Uc Ghel Bochal Kakrahi Ghora Gali Bansara Gali Jhika Gali Mohra Sharif Potha Sharif Aliot, Murree Sehr Bagla Patriata Karore Phagwari Las Kothar Numbal Mussiyari Military For administrative purposes, the military areas of Murree are divided into two separate cantonments, Murree Gali Cantonment and Murree Hills Cantonment. Murree houses the headquarters of the 12th Infantry Division of the Pakistan Army, several educational and training institutions, and a combined military hospital established to serve Murree and adjoining garrisons. The Pakistan Air Force also maintains a base at Lower Topa, near Patriata, with its own military boarding school for boys, PAF Public School Lower Topa. During the British Raj, in the hot season Murree was the headquarters of the Lieutenant General of the Northern Command. The Commissioner of the Rawalpindi Division and the Deputy-Commissioner of Rawalpindi also resided here during part of the season, for which period an Assistant Commissioner was placed in charge of the subdivision consisting of Murree Tehsil. The site was selected in 1850 almost immediately after the annexation of the Province, and building operations commenced at once. In 1851 temporary accommodation was provided for a detachment of troops; and in 1853 permanent barracks were erected. The regular garrison generally consisted of two mountain batteries and one battalion of infantry. Notable residents Current Ansar Abbasi, journalist and socially conservative commentator Kashif Abbasi, journalist, television talk show host and anchorperson Muhammad Nawaz Abbasi, former justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and a former justice of Lahore High Court Sadaqat Ali Abbasi, politician & sitting Member of the National Assembly Sadia Abbasi, politician Shahid Khakan Abbasi, former Prime Minister of Pakistan Zafar Mahmood Abbasi, Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) of the Pakistan Navy Marriyum Aurangzeb, politician Javed Malik, former Ambassador at Large of Pakistan & Special Advisor to the Prime Minister on foreign investments Parikshit Sahni, Indian actor Mohammad Wasim, cricketer Deceased Reginald