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	Multan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Multan is known as the 'City of Pirs and Shrines', and is a prosperous city of bazaars, mosques, shrines and superbly designed tombs.
		Multan (ملتان) is a city in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, and capital of Multan District.
		The death of Muzaffar Khan was in fact the death of the Muslim rule in Multan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Multan (3805 words)

	Multan - Pakistan Special Weapons Facilities
		About 966 km from Karachi and more or less in the exact center of Pakistan lies the ancient city of Multan, the "City of Pirs and Shrines." Multan, a prosperous commercial and industrial center with bazaars, mosques, shrines and superbly designed tombs, is also a city of dust, summer heat and beggars.
		Multan is the reported location of an IAEA un-safeguarded, but according to Pakistan this facility is physically secure, heavy water production facility, with an annual capacity of 13 metric tons, obtained from Belgium in 1980.
		The Multan facility, which is said to be co-located with or disguised as a fertilizer plant, could supply the Khushab reactor with heavy water.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/pakistan/facility/multan.htm (387 words)

	Oh! Lahore
		Lahore city was not at this: time a place of great importance: In 1034 Lahore was seized by Nialtigin, the revolted, governor of Multan.
		Lahore Cantonment.--Cantonment and head-quarters of the third or Lahore division of the Northern Command in the District of the same name, Punjab, situated in 31° 31' N. and 74° 22' E., 3 miles east of the civil station of Lahore.
		Lahore is, moreover, an, im- portant centre for the collection of agricultural produce and five cotton-ginning factories, three cotton-presses, and one combined ginning and pressing factory employed 427 hands in 1904.
	lahori.blogspot.com (387 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: India
		The empire of Akbar comprised the provinces of Kabul, Lahore, Multan, Delhi, Agra, Oudh, Allahabad, Ajmere, Gujerat, Malwa, Behar, Bengal, Khandesh, Berar, Ahmednagar, Orissa, Sind, and Kashmir, the southern boundary being roughly speaking marked by the River Godaveri and the latitude of Bombay.
		In the fourteenth century the country south of the Kistna was held by the Indian princes with their capital at Vijayanagar, while north of this the Bahmani kingdom, and those of Malwa, Gondwana, Telingana, Behar, Bengal, Jaunpur, etc., were in various degrees independent of the Afghan dominion of Delhi.
		Among modern buildings of note may be mentioned the cathedrals of Allahabad and Lahore, the college churches of Mangalore and Trichinopoly, and the parish churches of Karachi and the Holy Name, Bombay.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07722a.htm (387 words)

	LAHORE: 4,500 cops to guard Lahore mosques -DAWN - Local; 09 October, 2004
		LAHORE, Oct 8: As many as 4,500 policemen have been deployed at places of worship in the city in the wake of Multan carnage.
		Dr Faiza, who is also chief of the bureau, said a comprehensive plan had been evolved to deal with child beggary and other problems in the province.
		City Police Chief DIG Tariq Salim said on Friday that all divisional SPs had been directed to ensure effective patrol in the areas under their jurisdiction.
	www.dawn.com /2004/10/09/local14.htm (387 words)

	Welcome To Pakistan (A Tourist Paradise)
		On the other hand, the shrines, mosques and forts located in and around Multan and Bahawalpur are master pieces of Muslim architecture.
		Some important buildings are; Forts at Multan and Derawar (Bahawalpur), shrines of Shaikh Bahauddin Zakaria, Shah Rukan-e-Alam, Hazrat Shams Tabrezi at Multan and Tomb of Bib Jiwandi at Uchh Sharif near Bahawalpur.
		Wazir Khan's Mosque, Tombs of Jehangir, Asaf Khan, Noor Jehan, Anarkali, the Shalimar Gardens and Hiran Minar etc., were constructed during this period.
	www.tourism.gov.pk (1573 words)

	punjab.htm
		Multan, the 'City of Pirs and Shrines' is a prosperous city of bazaars, mosques, shrines and superbly designed tombs.
		Multan fort was built on a mound separating it from the city and the old bed of river Ravi.
		Geographically, it is a land of contrasts, from the alluvial plain of the Indus River and its tributaries to the sand-dunes of the Cholistan Desert, from the verdant beauty of the pine-covered foothills of the Himalaya to the strangely convoluted lunar landscape of the Potwar Plateau and the Salt Range.
	homepages.uel.ac.uk /akh1581t/punjab.htm (9572 words)

	Taxila
		...terrorists have been wreaking havoc in the country, by carrying on bombings at churches, mosques and other religious places in Islamabad, Taxila, Multan and...
		TAXILA: As many as forty five female educators who were appointed by the Government of Punjab in collaboration with an NGO for Adult literacy and vocational...
		TAXILA: Six persons were drowned in Khanpur Dam on Tuesday, the third day of Eidul Fitr.
	conservation.mongabay.com /Taxila.htm (621 words)

	Punjab
		The Upper Indus Plain covering Lahore, Multan, Gujranwala and Faisalabad Divisions and large parts of Sargodha, D.G. Khan and Bahawalpur Divisions, is a feature-less terrain.
		The magnificent edifices dotting this land of ancient civilizations, in the form of forts, palaces, gardens, mosques and mausoleums, are eloquent reminders of the great tradition in Muslim architecture.
		Lahore has the distinction of playing host to the world's largest gathering of Muslim rulers - the Second Islamic Summit - in the February of 1974 and to commemorate the event, a modern obelisk and a museum have been built.
	members.tripod.com /~PAKISTAN786/Punjab.html (1768 words)

	City Mosques - ..: Hamara Multan :..
		It was built by Nawab Ali Mohammad Khan Khakwani, in 1757 (1171 A.H.) when he was the governor of Multan in the time of Alamgir II.
		It is an excellent building, situated in the busiest Chowck Bazar of the city.
	hamaramultan.com /mosques.asp (741 words)

	LAHORE
		Multan, the 'City of Pirs and Shrines' is a prosperous city of bazaars, mosques, shrines and superbly designed tombs.
		In the chambers above the Gate of the mosque, are housed relics attributed to the Holy Prophet of Islam Peace be upon him, his daughter and his son-in-law and are said to have been brought to the sub-continent by Amir Taimur.
		The Mosque which is made up entirely of red sand-stone was built by Emperor Aurangzeb, the last of the great Mughals, in a record time of two and-a-half years.
	pakistansite.tripod.com /lahore.htm (17719 words)

	Gateway to Sikhism: Sikh Martyrs:Sardar Hari Singh Nalua
		Hari Singh contributed in all of these six campaigns as well as conquest of Multan.
		His rule they called "Sikha Shahi" or the "Rule of Sikhs." But no matter what, Hari Singh Nalua and his forces never destroyed any Mosques or abducted Muslim Women, etc. all those atrocities which Mughals and Pathans had committed on the local non-Muslims population.
		Thus, ultimately the strip of Peshawar became the bone of contention between Maharaja and Afghanis.
	www.allaboutsikhs.com /martyrs/hsnalua.htm (17719 words)

	GUYANESE MUSLIMS: History, Traditions Conflict and Change
		One of Guyana's oldest Mosques, the Queenstown Jama Masjid, was founded by the Afghan community, which had apparently arrived in this country via India.
		Small batches also came from Karachi in Sind, Lahore, Multan and Rawalpindi in the Punjab, Hyderabad, in the Deccan, Srinagar in Kashmir, and Peshawar and Mardan in the Northwest Frontier (Afghan areas).
		Also as indicated by Immigration Certificates, Pathans migrated from the Northwest Frontier and Kashmir.
	www.guyana.org /features/guyanese_muslim.html (17719 words)

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