12 Facts About Kasur

Kasur is a city to south of Lahore, in the Pakistani province of Punjab.

Kasur is the 24th largest city of Pakistan by population.

Kasur region was an agricultural region with forests during the Indus Valley civilization.

The Kasur region was ruled variously by the Maurya Empire, Indo-Greek kingdom, Kushan Empire, Gupta Empire, White Huns, Kushano-Hephthalites and Kabul Shahi kingdoms.

The city which is most commonly associated with Kasur was described as being situated somewhere on the right bank of the Beas opposite to the city of Lahore.

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Kasur was established as a city by the Kheshgi tribe of Pashtuns from Kabul who had migrated to the region in 1525 from Afghanistan during the reign of Babur and built several small forts in the area, establishing the Kheshgi Dynasty.

Kasur was captured by Ahmad Shah Durrani of the Durrani Empire.

Kasur is one of the biggest market and trading hub in the country of hides collection and leather tanning and processing.

In recent times, hide traders in Kasur were engaged in smuggling donkey hides, a medicinal demand, to China via Karachi Port.

Kasur is bordered to the north by Lahore, by India to the south and east, it has borders with Okara and Nankana Sahab district, the city is adjacent to the border of Ganda Singh Wala, a border with its own flag-lowering ceremony.

Kasur is situated in a subtropical thorn woodland biome and in the Deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregion according to the World Wide Fund for Nature's map of ecological regions in the world.

Population in Kasur is predominantly Muslim with some small Christian and Hindu minorities.