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Muslim Town was founded in 1915 by Dr. Syed Muhammad Hussain (1878-1939), son of Syed Alim Shah. He was a graduate of Lahore Medical School and the Chief Chemical Examiner of Punjab as well as a renowned physician and philanthropist.
Muslim Town Flyover (Urdu: مسلم ٹاؤن) is a flyover and interchange between Ferozepur Road, Wahdat Road along Canal Bank Road in Lahore, Pakistan. Muslim Town Flyover is the longest flyover of Pakistan with a length of about 2.6 km (1.6 mi).
The threat of Mongol invasions and political instability in Lahore caused future sultans to regard Delhi as a safer capital for the sultanate, [63] even though Delhi was considered a forward base whereas Lahore was widely considered as the centre of Islamic culture in northeastern Punjab. [63] Lahore came under progressively weaker central rule ...
Under the 2001 revision of Pakistan's administrative structure [3] Lahore was tagged as a City District, and divided into nine towns. [4] Each town in turn consists of a group of Union Councils. All in all 152 Union Councils existed in the City District of Lahore, including the Cantonment area.
The city's Hindu and Sikh population left en masse during the partition and shifted to East Punjab and Delhi in India. In the process, Lahore lost its entire Hindu and Sikh population. The emigrants were replaced by Muslim refugees from India. Muslim refugees and locals competed for ownership over abandoned Hindu and Sikh property. [5]
Muslim Town, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan This page was last edited on 29 December 2019, at 13:02 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
A photo of the Moorish Mosque in Kapurthala, India. Islam first arrived in the Punjab region following the conquest of Sindh by Muhammad bin Qasim in 712. The first permanent Muslim conquest of the Punjab was carried out by Mahmud Ghaznavi who made the whole of the Punjab a province of his empire with the headquarters at Lahore.
Once Pakistan and India were formed - the area saw a mass exodus of Hindus and Sikhs, with the area now being populated primarily by the Punjabis from West Pakistan, immigrants from East Punjab (Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, of India) and Pashtuns. As of now, the population is 99% Muslims, comprising Punjabis, mostly.