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15 unusual facts about Punjab


Baba Bujha Singh

The Punjab state headquarters of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation in Mansa is known as Baba Bujha Singh Bhavan.

Battle of Basantar

Simultaneoulsy, 405 Field Company also cleared a minefield lane for the Armoured Brigade and, on December 13 night, it breached an enemy minefield with trawls 1,300 metre-deep, north of Lohara and further extended it up to Lohara.

Gurinder Singh

The headquarters of the society, called Dera Baba Jaimal Singh, are located beside the river Beas near the town of Beas, Punjab, in northern India, and have been a center for satsang since 1891.

Hemoglobin D-Punjab

Hemoglobin D-Punjab was first discovered in the early 1950s in a mixed British and American family of Indian origin from the Los Angeles area; hence it is also sometimes called “D Los Angeles”.

Khant

Khant, Punjab, a village in Fatehgarh Sahib district, Indian Punjab

Kull

Kull, Punjab, a Union Council in the Punjab province of Pakistan

Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi

had at some time during the reign of the Mughal ruler, Shahjahan, migrated from Rajasthan to Punjab and settled at Fatehabad, Punjab near Tarn Taran.

Noorpur

Noorpur, Punjab, a village and a Union Council in Noorpur Thal tehsil, Khushab district, Punjab province, Pakistan

Orakzai Agency

Then Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto announced the creation of the agency at a grand tribal jirga at Samana and it began functioning on 1 December 1973.

Pakistani tea culture

In Karachi, the strong presence of Muhajir cuisine has allowed the Masala chai version to be very popular while the thick and milky Doodh Pati Chai is more preferred in Punjab.

Pasrur

Pasrur is mentioned by Mughal Emperor Babar in Baburnama as a halting-place between Sialkot and Kalanaur, and seems to have once been of considerable importance.

Sadda

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

Shri Keshavraiji Temple, Bet Dwarka

Pushkarna Brahmin along with Bhatia devotees, mostly from Sindh, Rajasthan, Kutch, Gujarat and Punjab, visited Bet Dwarka to worship Lord Keshavraiji most often.

Sikandar Shah Suri

He defeated Mughal general Khizr Khwaja Khan at Chamiari (presently in Amritsar district) and began to collect taxes with Kalanaur as his headquarters.

Vanjari

Vanjari, Punjab, a town Union Council of Mianwali District in Pakistan.


66th Punjabis

After the First World War, the 66th Punjabis were grouped with the 62nd, 76th, 82nd and 84th Punjabis, and the 1st Brahmans to form the 1st Punjab Regiment in 1922.

Akali movement

The next day, a Sikh-Hindu conference was organized during the Punjab Congress Provincial Congress at Rawalpindi.

Al-Ghazi Tractors

The Al-Ghazi Tractors Limited (AGTL), was incorporated in 1983, its plant located in Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, Pakistan.

Algoze

Gurmeet Bawa (from Punjab) is another famous folk singer to use the instrument in her songs.

Anandpur Resolution

However in 1971, Akali Dal was able to capture only one out of 13 Lok Sabha seats, and in the Punjab Assembly elections of March 1972, the Akalis won only 24 seats out of 117 seats.

Attock Khurd

In the spring of 326 BCE Alexander III of Macedon passed into the Punjab (at Ohind, 16 m. above Attock), using a bridge over the Indus constructed by Perdiccas and Hephaestion.

Bholu Brothers

He has suffered defeat at the hands of Kala Pahalwan " the Lion of Punjab" during the 50's, Big Bill Verna and the 3 times world Judo champion Anton Geesink in South America in 1968.

Chishtian

Colleges are Science College, Sir Syed College and Punjab College for intermediate level education while Government Post Graduate College–Chishtian and the Government Post Graduate College For Girls–Chishtian are for higher studies.

Chunni Lal

Chuni Lal Bhagat, member of Bharatiya Janta Party, is an Indian politician and Minister for Local Government and Medical Education & Research in the present Punjab Government.

FC Punjab Police

FC Punjab Police, more commonly called The Policemen, is an Indian institutional football club based in Jalandhar, Punjab (India).

Garcha

Garcha is a family surname of Punjabi Jatts who are believed to have originated from the village Majara, Kohara, in Ludhiana district of Punjab.

Goreeni

Goreeni is located in the South of Abbottabad district and forms part of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's border with Punjab province where it borders Murree Tehsil of Rawalpindi District.

Hailey Wishers College Daska

Hailey Wishers College Daska is a boys' college in Daska, Sialkot District, Punjab, Pakistan.

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.

History of Kathmandu

Further west, general Amar Singh Thapa overran lands as far as the Kangra – the strongest fort in the hill region – and laid siege to it (although by 1809, Ranjit Singh the ruler of the Sikh state in the Punjab, had intervened and driven the Nepalese army east of the Sutlej river).

Islamnagar

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

Ittefaq Group

The Ittefaq Group of Industries, (English The Unity), is a multimillion dollar integrated steel producer with major operations in Punjab Province of Pakistan.

Jakhal Mandi

It is connected directly to national capital Delhi and provides connectivity to important towns of Punjab & Haryana like Ludhiana, Bhatinda & Sirsa.

Jalal, Punjab

Jalal is a noted village located in the Bathinda district of East Punjab (Indian Punjab) as a noted Punjabi singer, Kuldeep Manak, hailed from and buried here.

Khap

These Khaps are found to be spread all the way from Northwest India down to Madhya Pradesh, Malwa, Rajasthan, Sindh, Multan, Punjab, Haryana, and modern Uttar Pradesh.

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.

Manpreet Gony

Manpreet Singh Gony (born 4 January 1984, Rupnagar, Punjab), whose real name is Manpreet Singh Grewal is an Indian cricketer from Punjab born in a Jatt Sikh family.

Mirza Hadi Baig

He settled in Punjab near Beas and established a state of 80 villages one of which he named as Islampur which was the ancient name of Qadian.

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.

Montagu Stopford

In December 1944 he and his fellow corps commanders Christison and Scoones were knighted and invested as KBE by the viceroy Lord Wavell at a ceremony at Imphal in front of the Scottish, Gurkha and Punjab regiments.

Multani

Multani dialect, a dialect of Lahnda/Punjabi spoken in southern Punjab, Pakistan

Nadir Shah's invasion of India

Michael Axworthy, The Sword of Punjab: Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant Hardcover 348 pages (26 July 2006) Publisher: I.B. Tauris Language: English ISBN 1-85043-706-8

Narangwal

Narangwal is a village in Ludhiana Punjab, India, where most of the Grewal clan live.

Pakistani meat dishes

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

Parihar

Populations are found in Rajasthan, Saurashtra - Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Jammu, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar.

Punjab Board of Investment and Trade

Mr. Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif
Chief Minister of Punjab & Chairman, PBIT

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.

Punjab Rights Forum

Another cause for the formation of the Punjab Rights Forum was in response to the crackdown on members of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar), including the party's president, Simranjit Singh Mann and activists of the Dal Khalsa following a "Genocide Remembrance Parade" that had been carried out through the streets of Amritsar on June 5 in remembrance of those Sikh civilians and terrorists that had been slain by the Indian army during Operation Blue Star.

Qalandar

Among the contemporary people who hold the title Qalandar are Shams Ali Qalandar of Punjab, Pakistan, Hazrath MASOOM SHAH BABA in WestBengal state of India Dist Bardhman Memari Sarif Takhtipur Hazrath Syed Shah Mohammed Khalandar Shah peeranvaliallah al Qadri al maroof Javagal Baba at Javagal Shareef(Hasan Dist.) in Karnataka state of India, Shahbaz Qalander, Nathar Vali of Trichy, Baba Fakruddin of Penukonda India.

Rahman Syed

Rahman Anwar Syed was born into a Muslim family of the village of Alawalpur, Punjab, British India, the eldest of seven children.

Salima Sultan Begum

In December of 1557, at the age of eighteen, Salima Begum was married to the considerably older Bairam Khan, (who was in his fifties) at Jalandhar, Punjab.

Samma

Samma Dynasty, ruled in Sindh, parts of Balochistan and Punjab from 1335–1520 AD

Sanjay Kak

His early work includes Punjab: Doosra Adhay (1986) about the Punjab in the days of the Khalistan struggle, and Pradakshina (1987), about the river Ganges.

Sauvira Kingdom

Al-Beruni considered Sauvira to represent southwest Punjab, including Multan, Mithankot and adjacent areas at the region of the confluence of Indus river with other rivers of Punjab in modern Pakistan.

Shazia

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

Sial tribe

Following the introduction of the Punjab Land Alienation Act in 1900, the authorities of the Raj classified the Sials who inhabited the Punjab as an "agricultural tribe", a term that was administratively synonymous with the "martial race" classification that was used for the purposes of determining the suitability of a person as a recruit to the British Indian Army.

Sir Frederick Currie, 1st Baronet

He proclaimed himself a servant of the Maharajah and the Khalsa and called upon the people of the Punjab to rise in arms and expel the British.

Sozo Water Park

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

Surinder Arora

Arora was born in the Punjab in 1961 to parents who had been displaced from the India/Pakistan border town of Fazilka and were about to emigrate to the United Kingdom.

Swraj Paul, Baron Paul

According to his official biography, Swraj Paul was born in Jalandhar, Punjab in 1931.

Trailanga Swami

After practicing sadhana (spiritual practice) for twenty years, he met his preceptor swami, Bhagirathananda Saraswati, in 1679 from Punjab.

Waseem Ahmad

As always, Waseem Ahmad has been invited to play Hong Kong Premier Hockey League 2013 for Punjab Sports Club together with Sohail Abbas, Mudassar Ali Khan and Gabbar.

Woodstock Public School

Woodstock Public School is a private school located in the city of Batala, Punjab, India.