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Welcome to Kasur City Portal Website
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Kasur, the city of Baba Bulleh Shah RA, located 55 km southeast of Lahore, is one
of the oldest cities in Pakistan. Kasur is adjacent to the Indo-Pak Border. It is
a major tourist attraction because of the famous guard changing ceremony. Kasur
is famous for its very spicy fish, a sweet dish called Amrassay, Falooda and Kasuri
methi. Apart from that, it is also the birthplace of the Great singer Actress of
the Indo-o-Pak Malka-e-taranum Noor Jehan. Kasur (Urdu/Punjabi: قصور), the capital
of Kasur District and one of the oldest cities in Pakistan, is located 55 km southeast
of Lahore. Kasur is adjacent to the border of Ferozepur between Pakistan and the
India, and is a tourist attraction because of the guard changing ceremony. It is
known for its very spicy fish, a sweet dish called Andrassay, Falooda and Kasuri
methi. It is the birthplace of Noor Jehan, the Pakistani singer and actress who
gained popularity in the 1950s. The city is also the resting place of Sufi poet
Bulleh Shah. There are different traditions about the name of Kasur. One is that
the town was founded by Kasur/ Kasu the son of King Ram and named after him as Kasurpur.
(One of Kasu's brothers was Loh and the City of Lahore was named after him.) According
to another tradition the town was founded by Pashtun families from Kabul (today
the capital of Afghanistan) during the period of Mughal emperor Akbar. The Pashtuns
constructed 12 small forts called as "Qasar" in Persian language so the city was
later on named as Qasoor (A city of Qasars(Forts)) There were about twelve Kots
named after the heads of various families.
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Popular Places
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Chanage Manage
Forest
Located some 70 kilometres south of Lahore in the Chunian district of Tehsil Kasur,
the forest covers an area of 5,000 hectares (12,510 acres) and is one of the largest
of its kind
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Ghanda Singh Wala Border in Kasur
A joint check post (JCP) at Ganda Singh Wala was constructed in 1959 for holding
joint Flag Hosting Ceremony. It is located at a distance of 18 Km from Kasur
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Hazrat Baba Bulhey
Shah
Baba Bulleh Shah (1680-1758) was the great humanist, philosopher, rebel, internationalist,
teacher and Sufi poet of all times. Baba ji was the disciple of Enayat Shah Lahori,
who himself was a great Sufi of his time.
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