Raiwind (
Punjabi & ) is a town located within
union council 149 (Dholanwal) in
Allama Iqbal Town of
Lahore
Lahore ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, second-largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and ...
,
Punjab
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,
Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...
. The town serves as the headquarters of
Tablighi Jamaat
Tablighi Jamaat ( , also translated as "propagation party" or "preaching party") is an international Islamic schools and branches, Islamic religious movement. It focuses on exhorting Muslims to be more religiously observant and encourages f ...
and hosts the annual
Raiwind Markaz Ijtema. Raiwind is also home to
Pakistan Railways Junction and Railways Track Workshop and serves as the political base for former Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif
Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani politician and businessman who served as the 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan, prime minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms, first serving from 1990 to 1993, then ...
.
History
During the
British Raj
The British Raj ( ; from Hindustani language, Hindustani , 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the colonial rule of the British The Crown, Crown on the Indian subcontinent,
*
* lasting from 1858 to 1947.
*
* It is also called Crown rule ...
, Raiwind was a
tehsil
A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a Zila (country subdivision), district including the designated populated place that ser ...
of
Lahore District. The town also became notable when a junction was built by the
North Western State Railway between the
Karachi–Peshawar Railway Line and
Lodhran–Raiwind Branch Line. Before the
Ferozepore
Firozpur, (pronunciation: Help:IPA/Punjabi, ɪroːzpʊr also known as Ferozepur, is a city on the banks of the Sutlej River in the Firozpur District of Punjab, India. After the Partition of India in 1947, it became a border town on the In ...
-
Bhatinda
Bathinda is a city and municipal corporation in Punjab, India, Punjab, India. The city is the administrative headquarters of Bathinda district. It is located in northwestern India in the Malwa (Punjab), Malwa Region, west of the capital city o ...
Railway opened, it was an important centre for local trade in agricultural produce and had two cotton-ginning factories and a cotton-press, which employed around 200 people.
Raiwind - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 21, p. 63.
/ref> Following independence in 1947, the railway links eastwards were no longer functional.
Population
The population according to the 1901 census was 1764. Today, it is over 150,000.
Annual Tablighi Ijtema
Every year a Muslim
Muslims () are people who adhere to Islam, a Monotheism, monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God ...
religious convention is held in Raiwind.[
]
See also
* Raiwind Markaz
* Raiwind Junction railway station
References
External links
Rejecting publicity, yet drawing millions to Raiwind
{{Neighbourhoods of Lahore
Populated places in Lahore District
Raiwind Tehsil