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8 unusual facts about Kasur


126th Baluchistan Infantry

During the Indo-Pakistan War of 1965, the battalion fought with distinction in the Kasur Sector.

Giani Ditt Singh

At the age of 16-17, he shifted to the main Gulabdasi centre at Chhathianvala, near Kasur, in Lahore district.

Joann Aalfs

There, she served alongside her then husband in various Presbyterian ministries, in areas such as Salem, New York and Kasur, Pakistan in 1951-1952.

Kasur

Hindu mythology instead opines that the ancient city was founded 7,100 years ago, a claim unsupported by any archeological evidence, by Kusha, son of the Hindu god Rama.

Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, A Hindustani classical vocalist, from the Patiala gharana (Born in Kasur, later migrated to India after partition)

Mohammad Hashem Cheshti

Ustad Hashem was born and raised in an extremely musical family, which originally came from Kasur in Punjab, but settled in the 19th century in Kabul as court musicians.

Ranjit Singh

In 1802 Ranjit Singh took Amritsar from the Bhangi Sardari and followed this in 1807, after a month of fierce fighting, with the conquest of Kasur from the Afghan chief Qutb ud-Din.

Sukhdev Thapar

The execution was supervised by the Honorary Magistrate of Kasur, Nawab Muhammad Ahmad Khan Kasuri, who also signed Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev's death warrants as their original warrants had expired.


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Baghel Singh

When Sukarchakia Misl (of Maharaja Ranjit Singh) won the territory of Gujranwala, and the areas of Ravi and Chenab Doab and Ramgarhia Misl won the areas of Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Bhangi around Lahore, and Kasur, Karor Singhia Misl declared their ownership of territories now including Ambala, Karnal, Hissar, Rohtak, Chandigarh, etc.

Heer clan

Majha is a historical region of the Punjab comprising the modern districts of Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Tarn Taran in the Indian State of Punjab and the districts of Lahore and Kasur in the Pakistani province of Punjab.

Hinduism in Pakistan

In addition, there is the legend that the Pakistani city of Lahore was first founded by Lava, while Kasur was founded by his twin Kusha, both of whom were the sons of Rama of the Ramayana.

Lahore Division

It contained 9,869 villages and 41 towns, of which the largest are Lahore (population, 202,964, including cantonment), Amristar(162,429), Sialkot (57,956), Gujranwala (29,224), Batala (27,365), and Kasur (22,022).

Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Kasur

Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, foreign minister of Pakistan, on January 2, 2005, celebrated the New Year with about 400 people in the compound of the Catholic Church in Kasur.

Pathans of Punjab

These non-frontier Pathans are usually known by the town or locality in which they are settled, e.g., Kasuri Pathans or Multani Pathans.

Sadda

Sadda, Punjab, a town and Union Council of Kasur District in Punjab, Pakistan

Shergarh, Punjab

The town itself is located on the old river bed of the Beas, which extends south from Kasur, all the way to Chunian, and then Shergarh, in Okara District, before moving towards Gaimbar near Okara City.


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