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54 unusual facts about Lahore


1993 South Asian Association of Regional Co-operation Gold Cup

The 1993 South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation Gold Cup was the first South Asian Football Federation Cup, held in Lahore, Pakistan between 16 July 1993 and 23 July 1993.

40th Pathans

During the 1965 and 1971 Indo-Pakistan Wars, the battalion fought gallantly on the Lahore Front.

Aboobaker Osman Mitha

He fell in love with Indu Chatterji, daughter of Prof. Gyanesh C. Chatterji of Lahore Government College, who had grown up in Lahore but had since moved to Delhi.

Abu Yasir Al Jaza'iri

Abu Yasir Al Jaza'iri is an alleged terrorist, captured as part of the War on Terror in Lahore on March 15, 2003, along with a Pakistani and three unnamed Afghans.

Baddomalhi

Baddomalhi is a city located 35 miles northeast of Lahore, Pakistan in Narowal District.

Clifford Thomason Beckett

Beckett was later employed on strategic reconnaissances in Western Europe and also served in Lahore where he was involved in the suppression of riots and the organization of the Military Jubilee Tattoo.

Dharam Ablashi

Ablashi was born in Lahore, India (now in Pakistan) and earned his Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine at Panjab University Veterinary College.

Dyal Singh College

Dayal Singh College, Lahore, an old college for graduate and post graduate students affiliated to University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Education Town

It borders Mustafa Town to the east, Mansoorah to the south and west and the Waris Colony neighbourhood to the north.

Elite Police

Members of the Elite Force are trained for six months at the Elite Police Training School (EPTS) at Badian, Lahore, by Pakistan's Special Service Group in personal combat, martial arts, crowd control, close quarters battle (CQB), and reconnaissance.

Faisalabad railway station

The station is used to take people to all parts of Pakistan from Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Quetta, Peshawar and many more cities and towns of Pakistan.

Farooq Girls High School

The school has got 31 Medals for obtaining top positions from Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Lahore.

Guus Vogels

Vogels was named Best Goalkeeper at the 2004 Champions Trophy in Lahore, Pakistan.

Iranians in Pakistan

There are an unknown number of Iranians in Pakistan, the vast majority of whom live in Karachi and Lahore.

Islamic Way of Life

Islamic Way of Life (Urdu: Islam Ka Nizam Hayat) is a book written by prominent Muslim Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi in Lahore, 1948.

Islamnagar

Islamnagar, Lahore, neighbourhood in Gulberg Town in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

Jai Singh Kanheya

Jai Singh was born in the village of Kahna, 21 km southwest of Lahore.

John Mildenhall

On 7 June 1600 Mildenhall left Aleppo with an entourage of six hundred people and, travelling through Bir, Urfa, Diabekir, Butelis, Van, Nakhichevan, Julfa, Sultanieh, Kazvin, Kum, Kashan, Kirman, Sistan and Kandahar, he reached Lahore in 1603.

Khan Fateh Khan Barech

From there, Fateh Khan and his companions moved to Sibi, and then marched towards Lahore.

Khwarizmi Science Society

The Khwarizmi Science Society was founded in 1997 by a group of students at the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, under the guidance of Prof. Saadat Anwar Siddiqi.

Kiran Khan

She had success at the 5th and 6th National Senior Swimming Championships in Karachi and Lahore, winning eight and twelve gold medals respectively and breaking 3 national records .

Lahor

According to the historical background Lahor (the historical and original one) is very rich and has the oldest history, civilization, culture, and tradition than the capital of Punjab (Lahore).

Maharishi Shiv Brat Lal

To spread Radha Soami spiritual movement he started his world trip from Lahore on August 2, 1911.

Malik Muhammad Asif

Muhammad Malik Asif holds a degree in economics from Lahore, Pakistan.

Maqsood Ahmad

Lieutenant-General Maqsood Ahmad HI(M) is the current Corps Commander of the IV Corps, Lahore; he was appointed to the position on 18 January 2013.

Martung

A large number of people go to big cities of the country like Lahore and Karachi for seeking low level jobs like watch men, waiters in restaurants and labourers.

Mehreen Faruqi

She studied at the University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore and worked as a consultant in Pakistan before moving to Sydney in 1992.

Mian Muhammad Azhar

In the 2002 polls, while he was dubbed as the strongest candidate for the slot of prime minister, he, in a dramatic way, lost NA elections from both seats of Lahore and Sheikhupura whereas his party managed to form government in the Centre and two provinces amid charges of massive rigging.His defeat in elections eventually resulted in slipping of the Party chair slot from his hands.

Mirza Ather Baig

He has been associated with the Department of Philosophy, at the Government College University in Lahore.

Mirza Shahrukh Javaid Jah

He was born in Lahore,Pakistan on 15 April 1978.He is the eldest son of Mirza Ghulam Moinuddin Javaid Jah Bahadur& Nawabzadi Malahat Beghum Sahiba.

Mughalpura

Islamic High School, MC Boys High School, Society Public School and

Other nearest colleges are Government Shalimar College, Government College for Women, Queen Mary College, Lahore and Islamic College for Women.

Muhammad Abdullah Noorani

Muhammad Abdullah Noorani grew up in an educated environment, and became interested in Islamic sciences, studying under a number of scholars in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan.

Nigar Awards

The first award distribution ceremony was held on July 17, 1958 at Lahore's Evernew Studios.

PAF Cinema

PAF Cinema (also known as PAF Auditorium) is a cinema and movie theater based in Cantt., Lahore, Pakistan.

Pakistan Rangers

Prior to 1995, the Pakistan Rangers were two separate forces: the Pakistan Rangers Punjab headquartered in Lahore, Punjab, and the Mehran Rangers headquartered in Karachi, Sindh.

Pandit Taba Ram Turki

After the change of rulers, Betab visited Lahore for a meeting with Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

Following his return from Lahore, Betab composed one more masnawi containing historical details like the other two named Ranjit-nama.

PIA Flight 688

The victims included Asmatullah Khan (Manager Legal Services) of Pakistan International Airlines, Justice Muhammad Nawaz Bhatti and Justice Nazir Ahmed Siddiqui, who served on the Lahore High Court.

Pol Amat

The striker won his first major title with the Spaniards at the 2004 Champions Trophy in Lahore.

Qari Saifullah Akhtar

According to the Dawn newspaper, Akhtar was arrested in Lahore on February 26, 2008 for his alleged involvement in the attempted assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Karachi on October 18, 2007.

Qila Gujar Singh

He was also a pillar of the Brahmo Samaj and donated liberally for educational institutions and libraries, including numerous colleges all over Upper India, like Dayal Singh College, Lahore and Dyal Singh Majithia Memorial Library, Lahore.

Roderick Weusthof

Weusthof was part of the Dutch national team for the 2004 Champions Trophy in Lahore where the Dutch won the silver medal.

Sam Browne

His remains were cremated but there is a memorial marker dedicated to Browne in the Ryde New Cemetery, as well as plaques at St Paul's Cathedral and Lahore Cathedral.

Santi Freixa

In 2004, Freixa was named Talent of the Year by the International Hockey Federation and won the Champions Trophy with Spain in Lahore.

Sial, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Its population is around 1000 many of its inhabitants have moved to Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad.

Sohaib Abbasi

Sohaib Abbasi, CEO of Informatica and a former executive of Oracle Corporation, was born in Lahore, Pakistan and moved to various cities with his father, an air force official, before reaching the United States in 1974.

Sozo Water Park

Sozo Water Park is a water park located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

Stan Cutting

He later saw service in India, where he played for the RAF against an All India XI at Lahore.

Sukha Singh

Punjab had gone through an era of Sikh persecution under the Mughal governor of Lahore Zakriya Khan from 1726 to 1745 A.D. The Sikhs of Punjab had taken refuge in the deserts of the Rajputana.

Syed Aqeel-ul-Gharavi

In Lahore, he addressed five majalis in 2003 at 6-B, Model Town, Lahore.

Timur Shah Durrani

He ruled from Lahore under the regency of his Wazir, General Jahan Khan, who administered these territories for approximately one year, from May 1757 until April 1758.

Troy Elder

After the 1998 Australian Hockey League season with the Queensland Blades, Elder got into the senior National Squad at the 1998 Champions Trophy in Lahore, where Australia won the bronze.

Ved Mehta

Ved Parkash Mehta (born March 21, 1934) is a writer who was born in Lahore, British India (now a Pakistani city) to a Hindu family.


Abdul Rahim Dard

Maulana Abur Rahim Dard, son of Qadir Bakhsh, was born in 1894 in Ludhiana and received his early education there, in Lahore and Patiala and did his M.A.

Amir Adnan

Amir Adnan currently houses its flagship store in Karachi, with complimenting domestic stores in Lahore, Multan, Faisalabad, Islamabad, Gujranwala and Hyderabad .

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.

Children Parliament Pakistan

The members are elected from different schools of Islamabad, Peshawar, Faisalabad, Mithi, Kohlu, Balakot, Karachi and Lahore etc.

Defence Housing Authority, Lahore

DHA, like the rest of Lahore, is overflowing with food lovers and has a lot of variety of foods on offer, from fast food chains such as McDonald's, Hardees, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut to upper-scale restaurants specialising in Pakistani and Western cuisine.

Other institutes in the DHA include Ibn-e-Sina College (named after the philosopher), the Lahore Alma School, and Lahore Grammar School, which has branches all over Lahore.

Delhi conspiracy case

The Delhi Conspiracy case, also known as the Delhi-Lahore Conspiracy, refers to a conspiracy in 1912 to assassinate the then Viceroy of India, Lord Hardinge, on the occasion of transferring the capital of British India from Calcutta to New Delhi.

Designers of Pakistani stamps

Over the last 60 years, various people have designed Pakistani stamps with many graduates of the National College of Arts (earlier Mayo School of Arts), Lahore.

Fighter kite

Kite fighting is common in all over Pakistan, but mainly concentrated in cities of Punjab and Sindh region including Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Karachi, Islamabad etc.

Garden Town

Garden Town was acquired in 1960 by the Lahore Development Authority, which at that time was called the Lahore Improvement Trust.

George Russell Clerk

He thus worked as an Assistant to the President in Rajputana and Delhi, before being posted as Political Agent at Ambala and subsequently at Ludhiana in 1839 and Lahore in 1840.

Guides Infantry

The Corps of Guides was raised at Peshawar on 14 December 1846 by Lieutenant Harry Burnett Lumsden on the orders of Sir Henry Lawrence, the British Resident at Lahore, capital of the enfeebled Sikh Empire.

Halwa poori

The food originated in northern India mainly in Uttar Pradesh and in modern day Pakistani Punjab and Indian Punjab and usually in Uttar Pradesh and Pakistani Punjab it is eaten as a breakfast on weekends in cities like Lahore, Faisalabad and in many other cities.

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.

Institute of International Education

Current REACs are located in the following cities around the world: Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Budapest, Kyiv, Bratislava, Amman, Accra, Johannesburg, Lahore, Delhi, Beijing, Tokyo, and Kuala Lumpur.

Jammu–Sialkot Line

The writer of Pakistan's first national anthem, Jagan Nath Azad, a Hindu, was forced to leave Lahore due to the escalating violence between Hindus and Muslims.

Jamrud

In 1837 when the Sikh army was concentrated at Lahore to celebrate the marriage of Kawar Nau Nihal Singh, the grandson of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Afghans sensing the opportunity and led by Akbar Khan laid the siege to Jamrud, trapping about one thousand Sikh troops with Afghans army of twenty to twenty five thousands troops.

Khwaja Mohammad Azhar Khan

K.M. Azhar died at the Combined Military Hospital in Lahore on 29 October 2006 when he was admitted to the hospital after receiving a head injury while performing ablution for prayers.

Krishna Mandir demolition reports

In May 2006, newspapers reported the demolition of Krishna Mandir, a Hindu temple located in Lahore, Pakistan.

Lahore Zoo

In early November 2010, Lahore Zoo received 53 falcons which were being illegally transported to Qatar from Benazir Bhutto International Airport.

Launea nudicaulis

Launea nudicaulis is a species of plant which is endemic to India where it is known under a common name bhatal and is found in Hazara, Mansehra, Multan, Rawalpindi and Scinde districts of Punjab and Lahore.

Malik

- ul-Mulk (or ul-Molk): - of the kingdom; e.g. Malik Usman Khan, who served the Sultan of Gujarat as Governor of Lahore, received the title of Zubdat ul-Mulk 'best of the kingdom' as a hereditary distinction, which was retained as part of the style of his heirs, the ruling Diwans (only since 1910 promoted to Nawab) of Palanpur.

Miran Bux

Known throughout his playing career as Miran Bux, he was aged 47 years, 284 days when he played his first Test (against India at Lahore), making him the second oldest Test debutant, behind James Southerton.

Mohammed Al Afghani

Muhammad Rahim al Afghani, captured in Lahore in 2008, transferred to Guantanamo

Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan

Sajeel Shahid, a British Muslim widely described as a founder or leader of an organization of British Muslims who supported or engaged in Jihad, said he befriended Noor Khan whil they were bothe held in Lahore.

Muhammad Zafarullah Khan

As an active member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Zafarullah Khan held the office of president of the Lahore, Pakistan chapter of the community from 1919 to 1935.

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences

It became the first multi-campus university of Pakistan with campuses in Islamabad, Karachi, Peshawar and Lahore.

Naya Kashmir

The actual writing of this memorandum took place in "Delhi Hotel" at Lahore and at Mr.Bedi's residence at Model Town Lahore.

Orakzai

Due to limited resources and fertile land, many Orakzai have settled in Pakistan's major urban centres such as Hangu, Thall, Parachinar, Tirah, Peshawar, Attock, (Nowshera-Amangarh) Islamabad,Battagram-Allai, Wazirabad, Lahore, Abbottabad and Karachi.

Pakistan Music Stars

Latif Ali (Hyderabad) - Latif (due to some personal problems) was later replaced by Zain Hassan from Lahore.

Pakistani meat dishes

Barbecued food is also extremely popular in some cities of Punjab such as Lahore, Gujranwala and Sialkot.

Pir Syed Muhammad Binyamin Rizvi

Pir Syed Muhammad Binyamin Rizvi received a degree in civil engineering from the G.C.T Government College of Technology, Lahore in 1980.

Punjab Games

Second Punjab Games 2005 were scheduled to be held in Lahore, the provincial capital of Western Punjab in December 2005; and were postponed, and eventually cancelled, due to 2005 Kashmir earthquake.

Rama Tirtha

After receiving a master's degree in mathematics from The Government College of Lahore he became professor of mathematics at Forman Christian College, Lahore.

Shalamar Hospital

Shalamar Hospital, established in 1982 and named after the historical Shalimar Gardens, is a private hospital located on Shalimar Link Road, Shalimar Town, Lahore, Pakistan.

Shalamar Medical and Dental College

Shalamar Medical and Dental College (abbreviated as SMDC, SHMC or SHMDC), established in 2009 and named after the historical Shalimar Gardens, is a private college of medicine and dentistry located on Shalimar Link Road, Shalimar Town, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

Shazia

Shazia Manzoor, singer from Rawalpindi, later moved to Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Yousaf Saleem Chishti

He has very close relations with Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Allama Muhammad Iqbal, he used to attend meetings in Javid Manzil, Lahore (Allama Muhammad Iqbal's residence).

Zain Khan Sirhindi

In January 1764, Ahmad Shah Durrani led his sixth expedition to assist Sadat Yar Khan of Doab and Zain Khan Sirhindi and his Mughal Army which was later overrun outside Sirhind, by 36,000 Sikh rebels led by the notorious Jassa Singh Ahluwalia, who plundered Lahore and the upper Doab.

Zem Zem

Zamzama, a cannon outside Lahore Museum, immortalized by Rudyard Kipling in his novel Kim