Tarnol is a small town and suburb located about north-west of Islamabad. The primary languages of the area are Urdu, Western Punjabi and Pashto. Tarnol is located at a 25 minute drive from the Zero Point and Islamabad International Airport. Most residents work in the heavy machinery and stone-crushing trades. The work is manual, physical, mostly heavy labour, which means that education is a low priority amongst the residents. Most of the population commute to Islamabad or Rawalpindi for work. The town is at above sea level. It has a population of nearly 20,000 residents. The coordinates for Tarnol are as follows: Latitude: 33.6494, Longitude: 72.9081.
Tarnol is part of NA-54 and UC-47.
Tarnol has gained some notoriety for an incident in March of 2022 involving the sealing of 10 illegal Tube wells by the Capital Development Authority of Islamabad in the noon.
This area has strategic importance due to being near the new Islamabad International Airport which is bringing investment to the area.