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Sialkot District (Punjabi and Urdu: ضلع سیالکوٹ), is one of the districts of the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located in the northeast of the province. It is located in the northeast of the province.
Sialkot (Punjabi, Urdu: سيالكوٹ) is a city located in Punjab, Pakistan.It is the capital of the Sialkot District and the 12th most populous city in Pakistan. [10] [5] The boundaries of Sialkot are joined by Jammu in the north east, the districts of Narowal in the southeast, Gujranwala in the southwest and Gujrat in the northwest.
British India's first bagpipe works opened in Sialkot, and today there are 20 pipe bands in the city. [68] Iqbal Manzil the residence of Allama Iqbal. Sialkot's modern prosperity began during the colonial era. [69] The city had been known for its paper making and ironworks prior to the colonial era, [69] and became a centre of metalwork in the ...
Marala Headworks is a headworks situated on the Chenab River near the city of Sialkot in Gujrat district in Punjab, Pakistan.A weir was first built during 1906–1912 in the British India to feed the Upper Chenab Canal, as part of the 'Triple Canals Project'. [2]
It was established in 1852 by the British Indian Army. As gleaned from the old records, the Sialkot Cantonment is the precursor of Wazirabad Garrison which was established for a sojourn from 1849–52. The site of Sialkot Cantonment was chosen by Sir Charles Napier, GCB, the then Commander-in-Chief, in 1851. The Wazirabad Cantonment was vacated ...
Sagala, Sakala (Sanskrit: साकला), or Sangala (Ancient Greek: Σάγγαλα) was a city in ancient India, [1] [2] which was the predecessor of the modern city of Sialkot that is located in what is now Pakistan's northern Punjab province.
India's territorial waters extend into the sea to a distance of 12 nautical miles (13.8 mi; 22.2 km) from the coast baseline. [7] India has the 18th largest Exclusive Economic Zone of 2,305,143 km 2 (890,021 sq mi). The northern frontiers of India are defined largely by the Himalayan mountain range, where the country borders China, Bhutan, and ...
Shakargarh became tehsil in 1853. Its literacy rate is 97 percent. Sialkot was annexed by the British after the Second Anglo-Sikh War in 1849. In 1853, Shakargarh Tehsil of Sialkot district was transferred to Gurdaspur District [5] and it remained an administrative subdivision of Gurdaspur district until Partition in 1947.