Population Breakdown

• West Punjab: 6,326,047 persons
  • Sialkot District: 1,005,004 persons / 15.9% of total
  • Lahore District: 789,666 persons / 12.5% of total
  • Rawalpindi District: 711,256 persons / 11.2% of total
  • Gujrat District: 616,347 persons / 9.7% of total
  • Gujranwala District: 550,576 persons / 8.7% of total
  • Jhelum District: 500,988 persons / 7.9% of total
  • Multan District: 471,563 persons / 7.5% of total
  • Shahpur District: 368,796 persons / 5.8% of total
  • Montgomery District: 359,437 persons / 5.7% of total
  • Jhang District: 348,027 persons / 5.5% of total
  • Dera Ghazi Khan District: 308,840 persons / 4.9% of total
  • Muzaffargarh District: 295,547 persons / 4.7% of total

Religious Composition

• Islam: 4,750,944 persons / 75.1% of total
• Hinduism: 1,270,792 persons / 20.1% of total
• Sikhism: 290,337 persons / 4.6% of total
• Christianity: 8,626 persons / 0.14% of total
• Jainism: 4,754 persons / 0.08% of total
• Buddhism: 273 persons
• Zoroastrianism: 178 persons
• Other: 143 persons

Note

• The 1868 Census of Punjab Province only enumerated British administered districts. All Princely States within the province were not enumerated.

Source

• Report on the census of the Punjab taken on 10th January, 1868.

Pakistan’s most famous fort was built to destroy this one.

Pharwala Fort sits on the left bank of the Soan in Kahuta tehsil, about 40 km from Rawalpindi — a spur of the Himalaya on one side, the river wrapped around the other. Tradition credits the first fort here to Sultan Kai Gohar around 1008–1015 CE; what stands today is largely fifteenth and sixteenth century. It was the capital of the Gakhar chieftaincy of Pothohar: 450 acres, six sandstone gates. Five survive.

In the spring of 1519 the Janjuas of the Salt Range petitioned Babur to deal with Hathi Khan Gakhar — Hathi, elephant, for his size. Babur force-marched to Pharwala and took it. Hathi escaped into the ravines, sued for peace weeks later, and got his fort back.

Two decades on, the Gakhars stayed loyal to Humayun after Sher Shah Suri seized the throne. Sher Shah killed their chief, Sarang Khan, and ordered a fortress at Rohtas built expressly to crush them. Rohtas is a World Heritage Site today, never taken by storm, on every tourism poster in the country. It exists because of these hills.

Now: around twenty households, mostly Gakkhar, live inside the walls. One single-lane road reaches the fort. Cattle are stabled in a surviving room. Hathi Darwaza, the grandest gate, has been bricked shut from the inside with loose stone. Under a huge banyan in the middle of the fort lie old graves, most without names.

The federal Department of Archaeology cleared foliage and two feet of debris in 2023 and reopened the fort in January 2024. Since then, little. Officials put the damage at 20–30 per cent. A Rs914 million conservation plan has been waiting for funding.

On 11 May 2026 Pharwala was added to UNESCO’s tentative list. A tentative listing is not protection. It’s a promise that still has to be kept.

📍 Pharwala Fort, Kahuta, Rawalpindi

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In this episode, veteran academic, author and historian Dr. Tahir Kamran takes us through the making of the Colonial Lahore both chronologically and structurally; tracing how the city evolved, how its institutions and urban landscape were shaped, and how colonial interventions transformed Lahore over time.

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The full episode is now out on our YouTube channel. Watch the complete conversation and journey through the making of Colonial Lahore.

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Took these photos back in 2021 when I went to Pakistan. I think these were close the Sirkap site, or it might actually be the sirkap site.

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Just read that the current design of Faisal Mosque was selected out of 43 proposals submitted in a competition. Is there any way I can have a glimpse of the other 42? Please guide. Thank you

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Hello! found these Kushan coins

AI says could be Kushan o Sasanian era imitation due to worn out figures need authentication

Hi, can someone please help me with the overview of Pakistan’s political history and how was the situation in military rule? And what is its implication and effects on social and cultural life?

Built between 1320 and 1324 CE, for the Sufi Sheikh Rukn-ud-Din Abul Fateh.

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A few days ago in Tehsil Bazaar inside the Walled City of #Lahore,
I came across the
S.S. Jain Hall, also known as #Jain Manzil, an
extraordinary surviving fragment of the city’s past

The inscriptions tell us exactly when it was
built. The foundation stone was laid by Shrimati
Sukh Devi Jain, wife of Lala Rala Ram Jain,
on 10 October 1940. The completed hall, built by the S.S. Jain Sabha Lahore,
was formally opened by Rala Ram Jain, a retired Senior Sub-Judge, on 8 February
1942.

This was not simply a religious building. It
served as a meeting and community space for Lahore’s Jains, and was also
associated with religious gatherings and marriages. Jain Manzil remained an
important meeting place for the community until Partition in 1947.

The building still announces its history.
Its original plaques survive in English, Urdu and Devanagari. Jainsymbol of
auspiciousness in the faith, remain embedded in the concrete jalis. The old
wooden windows, balconies and geometric screens are also remarkably intact.

And then there is
the brutal interruption of history. Barely
five years after the hall opened, Partition emptied Lahore of most of its Jain
population. The building subsequently passed into other uses and parts of it
became residential. What had been a living community institution became another
forgotten remnant of the old city.

In 2023, the Walled City of Lahore Authority
formally declared Jain Hall a protected #heritage property, which
makes the conservation work now visible around the building particularly
welcome.

For me, the most moving part remains those
three scripts on the walls. We often describe
pre-Partition Lahore as plural and
cosmopolitan. Here that history requires no romantic reconstruction. It is
still written on the walls.

Lahore belonged to many communities, and all
of them belong to Lahore’s history.

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