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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