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	Punjab (Pakistan) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Neighbouring areas are Sindh to the south, Balochistan and Federally Administered Tribal Areas to the west, the North West Frontier Province, Azad Kashmir, Indian controlled Jammu and Kashmir and Islamabad to the north, and Indian Punjab and Rajasthan to the east.
		Punjab is Pakistan's second largest province at 205,344 km² (79,284 square miles) and is located at the northwestern edge of the geologic Indian plate in South Asia.
		The crafts in the Punjab are of two types: the crafts produced in the rural areas and the royal crafts that flourished in the urban centres particularly in Lahore.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Punjab,_Pakistan (3614 words)

	West Punjab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		West Punjab was a former province of Pakistan which existed from 1947 to 1955.
		The province was bordered by the Indian states of Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir to the east, the princely state of Bahawalpur to the south, the provinces of Balochistan and Sindh to the southwest, the Northwest Frontier Province to the northwest, and Azad Kashmir to the northeast.
		West Punjab was merged into the province of West Pakistan in 1955 under the One Unit policy announced by Prime Minister Chaudhry Mohammad Ali.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/West_Punjab (386 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Punjab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		PUNJAB [Punjab] [Pers.,=five rivers], historic region in the NW of the Indian subcontinent.
		In 1956, however, the state of East Punjab and the union territory of Patiala and East Punjab States Union were merged to form the state of Punjab.
		Punjab is governed by a chief minister and cabinet responsible to a bicameral legislature with one elected house and by a governor appointed by the president of India.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/Punjab_History.asp (757 words)

	Punjab the Historic Region
		Punjab (historic region), historical region in the northwestern part of the subcontinent of India.
		The Salt Hills border the Punjab on the north, and to the northeast lie the Siwâlik foothills of the Himalayas.
		The Pakistani portion of the Punjab region was merged in 1955 into the province of West Pakistan, and in 1970 it was reconstituted as Punjab province.
	www.punjabilit.com /language/english/Punjab/index.htm (804 words)

	Welcome to Mypind ..Tehsils....Punjab India Village ...
		Punjab is bounded on the west by Pakistan, on the north by Jammu and Kashmir, on the north east by Himachal Pradesh and on the south by Haryana and Rajasthan.
		With the partition of India, Punjab was divided between India and Pakistan as East Punjab and West Punjab.
		Punjab's contribution is highest in the procurement of food grains for the central pool.
	www.mypind.com /punjin.htm (1010 words)

	Sikhism - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		the Sikhs had conquered most of the Punjab and established various feudal states; their greatest leader was Ranjit Singh (1780—1839), who established a Sikh kingdom in the Punjab.
		After his death, conflict with the British caused the Sikh Wars and the subjugation of the Punjab, after which Sikh soldiers formed a significant part of the British armies in India.
		Turmoil in the Punjab erupted in the early 1980s, marked most dramatically by the 1984 storming by the Indian Army of the Golden Temple at Amritsar, which had been taken over by militant Sikhs.
	messenger.yahooligans.com /reference/encyclopedia/entry/Sikhism (579 words)

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		In Punjab 40% of all hospital beds are in the private sector; in Karnataka, about 33% of all hospital beds are in the private sector; and in West Bengal, private hospitals and nursing homes account for about 23% of hospital beds in the state.
		West Bengal: National Detect TB amongst Pathological laboratory services will be strengthened under the Tuberculosis Control chest symptomatics; project with both manpower and logistical supporL These Program vaccinate new born and laboratories will play a vital role in detection of TB by sputum infants with B.C.G.; microscopy and help in establishing a treatment schedule.
		In Punjab and West Bengal, where the rate of growth of health expenditure has been below the overall rate of Government expenditure in some years, continuation of recent trends in health expenditure would not be sufficient to absorb the incremental costs to meet the basic health care service needs of the population.
	www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/1996/02/20/000009265_3961019153729/Rendered/INDEX/multi0page.txt (15594 words)

	Punjab
		Historically, the area west of Punjab was under the sphere of influence of the Persians; to the east was the heartland of the Indian civilization.
		The historical area of Punjab was defined to the east from the basin of the river Bias (including Delhi) to the basin of River Indus in the west.
		The high time for Punjab was during the reign of Mughal emperor Babur, when Punjab along with Babur's empire stretched from Delhi in the east to Kabul and Ghazni to the West.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/middle_east/punjab.html (871 words)

	Historical Overview of Punjab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The next thousand year history of Punjab (or Arya-Varta, the land of Aryas, as Aryas called it) is dominated by the Aryans and their interactions with the natives of the Indus basin.
		Punjab became the wealthiest Satrapy i.e., the province in the Persian kingdom.
		Alexander's Eastern empire (from Syria to Punjab) was inherited by Selecus Nicator, the founder of Seleucid dynasty.
	www.allaboutsikhs.com /culture/history_100.htm (3039 words)

	Information about Punjab
		Historicaly, the area west of Punjab was under the sphere of influence of the Persians, the east was the heartland of the Indian civilization, the south under the influence of the Arabs and the north under the Turko-Mongolian influence.
		The historical area of Punjab was defined to the east from the basin of the river Bias (including Dehli) to the basin of River Indus in the west.
		Chandigarh on the border of Punjab and Haryana, remains the capital of the two states, yet is administered as a Union Territory from Delhi.
	www.punjabilok.com /misc/punjab/pun_geninfo1.htm (731 words)

	Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pakistan was formed on 14 August 1947 with two Muslim-majority wings in the eastern and northwestern regions of South Asia, separated by Hindu-majority India, and comprising the provinces of Balochistan, East Bengal, the North-West Frontier Province, West Punjab and Sindh.
		To the west of the Indus are the dry, hilly deserts of Balochistan; to the east are the rolling sand dunes of the Thar Desert.
		Punjab is the site of Alexander's battle on the Jhelum River and the historic city Lahore, Pakistan's cultural capital with many examples of Mughal architecture such as the Badshahi Masjid and the Shalimar Gardens.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pakistan (4885 words)

	Punjab Tours,Punjab Tour Packages,History of Punjab,Tourist Places in Punjab,Tours to Punjab,Travel Punjab,Punjab ...
		Punjab is the place where the British Period in India imprinted itself forever in the form of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in Amritsar.
		The high time for Punjab was during the reign of Mughal emperor Babur (and also during the time of Ranjit Singh more recently) when Punjab along with Babur's empire stretched from Delhi in the east to Kabul and Ghazni to the West.
		The major city in the Indian Punjab is Amritsar, the holy city of the Sikhs.
	www.toursnewdelhi.com /punjab/punjab-tours.htm (418 words)

	Punjab and South Asian peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On the other hand, West Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi stressed the importance of recognising and accepting that Punjabis were now divided into two separate and independent states, although their cultural bonds were unbreakable.
		Ironically it was the Sikh-Congress alliance which demanded the division of Punjab, arguing that if India were to be partitioned on the basis of contiguous Hindu-Sikh and Muslim majorities then Punjab should also be divided on the same basis.
		Punjab remains the key province, just as it did in the 1940s and even now, 56 years after independence, for determining the direction of politics in the subcontinent.
	www.mahapunjab.org /articles/2004/04ahmed.html (940 words)

	SikhSpectrum.com Monthly. Punjab river waters dispute: Constitutional aspect
		The people of Punjab have constitutional rights (Article 246, entry 17 of the State List of the Constitution) to enjoy benefits of their waters just as they are vulnerable to losses due to their floods and land erosion.
		In the skein of complicated Punjab tangle, river-waters dispute is a glaring strain.
		The Tribunal is required to verify the claims to the quantum of usage of water by the farmers of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan as on 1-7-85 and adjucate the claims of Punjab and Haryana regarding the share in their remaining waters.
	www.sikhspectrum.com /052004/syl_gurdev_19.htm (2883 words)

	Pakistan: Punjab - photos of Punjab on Worldisround
		Punjab - travel photos - Punjab is one of the five provinces in Pakistan, and is the second largest in area.
		Punjab is one of the five provinces in Pakistan, and is the second largest in area.
		Punjab is a fertile land, known for it's natural irrigation system which is the largest in the world.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/54962/index.html (210 words)

	WHY PUNJABI SHOULD BE THE MEDIUM OF EDUCATION IN WEST PUNJAB
		APNA firmly believes that the medium of education in West Punjab's government schools must be immediatly changed from Urdu to Punjabi.
		There is absolutely no reason why the majority of West Punjabi children should be unfairly disadvantaged by forcing them to learn, speak, write and think from grade 1 on in a language that is not spoken at their homes.
		In West Punjab, where Urdu and, to some extent, English are the medium of instruction, these languages dominate the published media.
	www.apnaorg.com /articles/why_punjabi.html (858 words)

	Writers, scholars to discuss future of Punjabi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Recently, the West Punjab Chief Minister, Mr Prevaiz Elahi, announced the introduction of Punjabi in primary schools as a compulsory subject and in post-graduation classes in colleges shortly thereafter.
		This question is also relevant in the case of East Punjab, where the issue of the Punjabi language has witnessed several struggles in the past.
		Gurmukhi is the script that is used to write Punjabi in East Punjab while Shahmukhi serves the same purpose in West Punjab.
	www.mahapunjab.org /articles/2004/04dhaliwal.html (934 words)

	THE STATUS OF PUNJABI IN WEST PUNJAB
		Punjab University only offered Punjabi Fazal which was understood to be a subject of via Bathanda: A short cut to get a college degree because after having passed Punjabi Fazal one has to take examination in English only.
		After the partition of Punjab, Punjabi Hindus aligned themselves with the Hindi speaking UP and divided Punjab on religious lines: Haryana and Hamachal Pardesh for Hindi oriented Hindus and Punjab for Sikh majority.
		Punjabi was declared as the state language of Punjab and one can see a mamoth growth of language in that province.
	www.punjabilok.com /misc/literature/stat_ofpun1.htm (738 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Punjab
		She said it was most unfortunate that West Punjab could produce only 24 women Punjabi writers even after 57 years of the Partition.
		She said the Punjab Government had allocated a budget of Rs 196 crore for the old-age and widow pensioners in the state.
		Prof H.S. Walia, vice-president of the Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers Union (PCCTU), and Prof Parminder Singh, secretary of the PCCTU today fully endorsed the decision taken by office-bearers of the PCCTU to postpone the programme of courting arrest by the teachers, slated for Chandigarh on December 7.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2004/20041206/punjab1.htm (7652 words)

	Economy - India Bilateral Treaties and Agreements - Volume 1
		Claims should be invited to reach the Registrars of Co-operative Societies of West Punjab and East Punjab respectively by the 15th June, the necessary advertisements being issued by the two Dominion Governments by the 15th May 1949.
		A conference between the representatives of the Co-operative Departments of the West Punjab and the East Punjab was held at 10 A.M. on the 15th March, 1948, in the room of Mr.
		The Central Banks in the West Punjab will also repay the deposits of their individual evacuee depositors, the deposits of the evacuee individuals of their constituent societies and of the societies which consisted wholly of non-Muslim evacuees.
	meaindia.nic.in /treatiesagreement/1949/chap17.htm (3932 words)

	Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The stories told by the Hindus and Sikhs who fled their homeland in west Punjab (when it was becoming a part of Pakistan) during the Partition, and became refugees in Delhi and other parts of east Punjab (which became a part of the Indian Union), are different from those of the Bengali Hindu families.
		The uprooting in Punjab occurred in one swift swipe, with a virtual exchange of the majority of Hindu and Muslim population across the borders.
		In West Bengal, as the leadership of the refugee movement was in the hands of the Left, mainly the communists, the Hindu Mahasabha failed to communalise refugee politics, in spite of the presence of their formidable leader Shyamaprasad Mukherjee.
	www.epw.org.in /showArticles.php?root=2005&leaf=04&filename=8553&filetype=html (2420 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Lahore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When Pakistan won independence in 1947, Lahore became the capital of its West Punjab; from 1955 to 1970 it was the capital of the entire province of West Pakistan, composed of all provinces in the western wing; and upon the province's dissolution it became the capital of Punjab prov.
		The architectural remains of the Mughal period, although imperfectly preserved, are among the most splendid of Mughal art.
		The city's educational facilities include the Univ. of the Punjab (1882), Pakistan's oldest university; several affiliated colleges; and a university of engineering and technology.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/Lahore.asp (547 words)

	What is Punjab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Area of Punjab that is between rivers of Beus and Satluj is called Doaba, major cities in this part of punjab are Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur and Nawan Shahr.
		Punjab has always been land of great saints and fighters.
		In 450 B.C (2450 years ago) Alexander invaded Punjab and conquered a great Punjabi king named Porus whose kingdom was on the banks of river Chenab.
	www.sikh-history.com /history/punjab.html (308 words)

	webindia123.com-climate of punjab-seasons in punjab
		There is wide difference in the amount of rainfall experienced in east and west Punjab.
		The normal onset of the monsoon in Punjab is in the first week of July.
		The importance of winter rainfall in Punjab is immense primarily because of its time and effectiveness.
	www.webindia123.com /punjab/land/climate.htm (877 words)

	Agreement concerning the loan of waters of the Colorado River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The West Punjab Government disputes this contention, its view being that the point has conclusively been decided in its favour by implication by the Arbitral Award and that in accordance with international law and equity, West Punjab has a right to the waters of the East Punjab rivers.
		The East and West Punjab Governments are anxious that this question should be settled in a spirit of goodwill and friendship.
		The West Punjab Government on its part recognize the natural anxiety of the East Punjab Government to discharge the obligations to develop areas where water is scarce and which were under-developed in relation to parts of West Punjab.
	www.internationalwaterlaw.org /RegionalDocs/Punjab-Canal.htm (394 words)

	World Affairs Board - East, West Punjabs to forge cultural ties
		Earlier, the Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi was given a warm welcome by the top brass of the Indian Punjab Government led by the Punjab Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh.
		He said Punjab had proposed to the Centre a compensation plan by which farmers would be discouraged from cultivating rice and wheat and instead encouraged to go for diversification by offering them compensation for the transit period.
		The opening ceremony was slightly delayed but when the West Punjab Chief Minister, accompanied by Capt Amarinder Singh arrived in an open jeep at the venue and waved to the crowd, the large gathering reciprocated his gesture.
	www.worldaffairsboard.com /showthread.php?t=3502 (3623 words)

	WEST PUNJAB ABLAZE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As everywhere in the Punjab, Sikhs and Hindus were enlightened entrepreneurs, good businessmen and organisers, and the Sikhs were very good farmers and owners of rich, fertile land for which they contributed land-revenue many times their population strength.
		In village after village, as happened in Sheikhupura, Gujranwala, Gujrat or for the matter of that, any of the West Punjab districts, Sikhs were attacked, and fired on by Pakistan Military and police, which invariably directed the operations of the Muslim mobs.
		Muzaffargarh is an outlying district to the west of Multan.
	www.bharatvani.org /books/mla/ch10.htm (13079 words)

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