He defeated the Rohillas and Afghan garrisons in Punjab and succeeded in ousting Timur Shah and his court from India and brought Lahore, Multan, Kashmir and other subahs on the Indian side of Attock under Maratha rule.

There is a large following in Punjab, especially in Ludhiana and Patiala, and there used to be many Jains in Lahore ( Punjab's historic capital ) and other cities before the Partition of 1947, after which many fled to India.

Calls to other cities ( e. g. Karachi to Lahore ) are considered long distance calls, e. g., when dialing to Lahore from Karachi you have to dial the code for Lahore then followed by the number of the destination, therefore you dial 042-XXXX-XXXX.

The Moti Masjid, Agra and many other buildings in Agra, the Red Fort and the Jama Masjid in Delhi, mosques in Lahore, extensions to Lahore Fort and a mosque in Thatta also commemorate him.

Among his other constructions are the Red Fort also called the Delhi Fort or Lal Qila in Urdu, large sections of Agra Fort, the Jama Masjid, the Wazir Khan Mosque, the Moti Masjid, the Shalimar Gardens, sections of the Lahore Fort, the Jahangir mausoleum — his father's tomb, the construction of which was overseen by his stepmother Nur Jahan and the Shahjahan Mosque.

* September 6 – Islamic Republic Of Pakistan observes its Defence Day on account of successful defence of Lahore and other important areas against India.

Pakistan International Airlines has regular flights between Quetta and the other major cities of Pakistan including Islamabad, Gwadar, Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar while Pakistan International Airlines operates direct flights to Manchester, Dubai, New York and other major international airports.

Other major roads are Quetta to Karachi following the Sibi, Jacobabad, Sukkur and Hyderabad route and two roads from Quetta to Lahore one ( the older ) via Sibi, Sukkur, Rahim Yar Khan, Bahawalpur and Multan the other route via Khanozai, Muslimbagh Loralai, Fort Mondro, Dera Ghazi Khan and Multan.

* History and other information about Lahore

It is also sometimes used to distinguish between the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam ( Lahore-based ) and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community ( Qadian-based ) branches of the Ahmadiyya, primarily by the Lahoris and other Muslims.

Kapil took a 5 / 102 haul in the second Test at National Stadium, Karachi, 7 / 220 in the third Test at Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad and 8 / 85 at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore while he received little support from other team members.

Like other French operas of the period, Lakmé captures the ambience of the Orient seen through Western eyes, which was periodically in vogue during the latter part of the nineteenth century, in line with other operatic works such as Bizet's The Pearl Fishers and Massenet's Le roi de Lahore.

Roads bearing his name are found in New Delhi, Lahore, Varanasi, and other cities.

On understanding that the only other option for the aircraft was to crash land, Lahore Airport switched on its lights and allowed the aircraft to land.

Multan is a commercial and industrial centre, as it is connected with the rest of the country through rail and air including the other industrial hubs such as Lahore, Karachi, Gujranwala, Quetta and Faisalabad.

He was a favourite of Baba Malang Sahib, a Sufi of Lahore, Wasif Ali Wasif, Ashfaq Ahmad, Syed Fakhruddin Balley and other renowned sufis.

It then refuels at Lahore, Pakistan, and flies on to Dubai, where the hijackers release a mortally wounded man they had stabbed and 27 other passengers.

They tend to occur in pairs in the Mughal imperial capitals ; the most famous ones are in Agra Fort, but there are others in Red Fort, Delhi and Fatehpur Sikri and certain other princely capitals such as Amber and also in Lahore Fort Pakistan.

It was also revealed, that Lahore Zoo will start renting exotic animals from other countries.

Thus it can be said that though most of the buildings of Lahore carry Muslim heritage, there are a few structures, which have the influence of other religions such as Sikhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Zoroastrianism.

It confirmed Karachi ’ s status as Pakistan ’ s largest economy, well ahead of the next two biggest cities Lahore and Faisalabad, which had a reported GDP ( PPP ) in 2008 of $ 40 billion and $ 14 billion, respectively.

In the northern half, most of the population lives about an arc formed by the cities of Faisalabad, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Nowshera, Swabi, Mardan, and Peshawar.

Recently, large CNG busses have been put onto the streets of various cities, primarily Karachi, Lahore and recently Islamabad as minivans which were originally used were beginning to cause large traffic problems.

The M2 was the first motorway completed in 1998, linking the cities of Islamabad and Lahore.

In 1856, General Alexander Cunningham, later director general of the archeological survey of northern India, visited Harappa where the British engineers John and William Brunton were laying the East Indian Railway Company line connecting the cities of Karachi and Lahore.

Bhutto imposed martial law in major cities including Karachi, Lahore and Hyderabad.

As well the above many Urdu-speakers settled in the cities of Punjab mainly in Lahore, Multan, Bahawalpur and Rawalpindi.

In recent years, local Pakistani hip hop artists have begun to emerge in underground scenes in large cities such as Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore.

There are also rail links with major cities in Pakistan including Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, Faisalabad as well as smaller cities within the country.

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

The Punjab and Sindh provinces, where the majority of urban, western culture has been greatly advanced and has chains of many American, European and British chains in many metropolitan cities such as Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Hyderabad, Sialkot, Faisalabad, Multan, Rawalpindi, and many others.

Among the largest cities of the Indo-Gangetic plain are Karachi, Hyderabad, Multan, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Lahore, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Jaipur, Kanpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna, Kolkata, Guwahati and Dhaka.

Among the largest cities of the Indo-Gangetic plain are Ahmedabad, Ludhiana, Amritsar, Chandigarh, Delhi, Dibrugarh, Guwahati, Jorhat, Kanpur, Lakhimpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna, in India, Dhaka in Bangladesh, Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi-Islamabad, Multan, Hyderabad and Karachi in Pakistan.

Lahore is hub of CNG Auto rikshaws manufacturers in Pakistan. The government of Pakistan is taking measures to convert all the gasoline run auto-rickshaws to more effective CNG rickshaw by 2015 in all the major cities of Pakistan by issuing easy loans through commercial banks.

After the writers who had migrated from various Indian cities settled in Lahore, they started their literary activities.

Like all ancient cities, Lahore also has two faces, the old and the new.

The British consented to this and on 16 December 1846, the Treaty of Bhyroval provided for the Maharani to be awarded a pension of 150, 000 rupees ( 1. 5 lakh ) and be replaced by a British resident in Lahore supported by a Council of Regency, with agents in other cities and regions.

Her father was working on major development projects in Lahore and other cities.

Not until 1186, however, was the last representative of the Ghaznavids uprooted by the Ghorids from his holdout in Lahore, in the Punjab.

Ahmad Shah invaded the remnants of the Mughal Empire a third time, and then a fourth, consolidating control over the Kashmir and Punjab regions, with Lahore being governed by Afghans.

The civilization, with a writing system, urban centers, and diversified social and economic system, was rediscovered in the 1920s after excavations at Mohenjo-daro ( which means " mound of the dead ") in Sindh near Sukkur, and Harappa, in west Punjab south of Lahore.

* 1799 – Ranjit Singh conquers Lahore and becomes Maharaja of The Punjab ( Sikh Empire ).

The body was then transferred to Lahore to be buried in Shahdara Bagh, a suburb of Lahore, Punjab.

On 29 March 1849, the British raised their flag on the citadel of Lahore and the Punjab was formally proclaimed to be part of the British Empire in India.

By the first the State of Lahore ( i. e. West Punjab ) handed over to the British, as equivalent for one crore indemnity, the hill countries between the rivers Beas and Indus ; by the second the British made over to Gulab Singh for 75 lakhs all the hilly or mountainous country situated to the east of the Indus and the west of the Ravi i. e. the Vale of Kashmir ).

Detailed Report on an Archaeological Tour with the Buner Field Force, Lahore, Punjab Government Press.

Many had expected the original boundary line to run farther to the west, thereby ceding the Lahore region to India, possibly granting them all of Gujranwala Division: Sialkot, Narowal, Gujrat, districts and Sheikhupura, Okara, Kasur districts of Lahore Division ; and others had expected the line to run much farther east, possibly granting them control of Delhi, the imperial capital of the Mughal Empire including an east Punjab state for Sikhs of their own to govern.

The Punjab Government decided in 2005 to replace two-stroke three-wheelers with CNG-fitted four-stroke rickshaws in Lahore, Multan, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi and Gujranwala.

Lahore: Punjab University, 1928.

The government awarded him the scholarship and his father sent him to Government College University, Lahore ( GCU ) where he passed his FSc and stood first in whole Punjab.

City of Lahore, Punjab Province ( Pakistan ) | Punjab Province, c. 1950.

* July 12 – Ranjit Singh the Great conquers Lahore and becomes ruler of the Punjab.

* Mohammad of Ghur takes Punjab and Lahore, overthrowing the Ghaznavids.

* Anjaman Mozareen Punjab, small peasants organisation fighting for land rights in Okara, Lahore, Renala Khurd and Depalpur in Pakistan

* Montgomery District, an administrative district in the Lahore division of former Punjab Province of British India

These programmes are being offered notably by the Punjab Institute of Preventive Ophthalmology ( PIPO ) in Lahore and the Pakistan Institute of Community Ophthalmology in Peshawar.

Massive tank battles occurred in the Punjab, and while the Pakistani forces made some gains, Indian forces captured the key post at Haji Pir, in Kashmir, and brought the Pakistani city of Lahore under artillery and mortar fire.

The Khalistan state proposed by him included parts of present-day Indian Punjab, Pakistani Punjab ( including Lahore ) and the Simla Hill States.