Taxila Cantonment () is a cantonment adjacent to

Taxila Taxila or Takshashila () is a city in the Pothohar region of Punjab, Pakistan. Located in the Taxila Tehsil of Rawalpindi District, it lies approximately northwest of the Islamabad–Rawalpindi metropolitan area and is just south of the ...

in Rawalpindi District, Punjab province,

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# ...

.Heavy Industries Taxila (HIT)
GlobalSecurity.org website, Retrieved 19 May 2023 The city is home to

Heavy Industries Taxila Heavy Industries Taxila (Reporting name: HIT), () is a Pakistani state-owned enterprise and defense contractor working under the Ministry of Defence Production, located in Taxila (modern), Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab.

— a major defence, engineering conglomerate, and military corporation. Taxila Cantonment is also home to the HITEC University.Taxila cantonment is a b class cantonment having 5 elected members from each ward.

Location

Taxila Cantonment is located immediately east of Taxila city, and is surrounded by the villages of ''Shahpur'', ''Dhok Wajjan'', and ''Karamwal''. It is also bordered by Taxila's neighbourhoods of Muslim Colony and Hassan Colony. The cantonment is 41 kilometres away from

Islamabad Islamabad (; , ; ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's tenth-most populous city with a population of over 1.1 million and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital Territory. Bu ...

by road.

Administration

Taxila Cantonment is managed by the Taxila Cantonment Board under the control of the Military Lands & Cantonments Department (ML&C), Ministry of Defence. Cantonments throughout Pakistan are established under and governed by the Cantonments Act 1924.

Transportation

Rail

Taxila Cantonment is the location of

's railway station, the

Taxila Cantonment Junction railway station Taxila Cantonment Junction Railway Station (Urdu and ) is located in Taxila Cantonment, Taxila cantonment area near Taxila (modern), Taxila, Rawalpindi district of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab province, Pakistan. It serves as a junction for Havelian ...

, also known as ''Taxila Junction''. Taxila Junction is served by the Karachi–Peshawar Railway Line, and is the southern terminus of the Khunjerab Railway, which connects Taxila to the Havelian railway station. A planned extension of the railway will eventually connect Taxila to China's Southern Xinjiang Railway in Kashgar, as part of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor.

Road

Taxila junction's road network merges into that of the Taxila city. The ancient Grand Trunk Road is designated as N-5 National Highway, and connects the city to the Afghan border, and northern Punjab. The

Karakoram Highway The Karakoram Highway (, ), also known as the KKH, National Highway 35 (), N-35, and the ChinaPakistan Friendship Highway, is a National Highways of Pakistan, national highway which extends from Hasan Abdal in the Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab p ...

's southern terminus is in nearby Hasan Abdal, and connects Taxila to the Chinese border near the Hunza Valley.

Motorways

The city is linked to

Peshawar Peshawar is the capital and List of cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by population, largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district p ...

and

by the M-1 Motorway, which in turn offers wider motorway access to

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 ...

via the M-2 Motorway, and

Faisalabad Faisalabad, formerly known as Lyallpur, is the List of cities in Punjab, Pakistan by population, second-largest city and primary List of cities in Punjab, Pakistan by population, industrial center of the Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan ...

via the M-4 Motorway.

Air

The nearest airport to Taxila Cantonment is Islamabad International Airport, located 35 kilometres away by road. Peshawar's Bacha Khan International Airport is 155 kilometres away by road.

References

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