Walking In Main Bazar - Kharian City - Malik Plaza - Punjab - Pakistan 4K

Kharian city is in Gujrat District, Punjab province of Pakistan. The city lies almost midway between Lahore and Islamabad on the Grand Trunk Road (GT road). This is the road which connects the city all the way to India and Bangladesh, and Afghanistan on the other side, it was used during British Rule to transport goods across the subcontinent. The main railway line also passes through Kharian thus providing good transportation to the northern and southern parts of Pakistan. The closest major cities to Kharian are Jhelum and Gujrat.

About 30/40 years ago, when Kharian was just a small town, there were two classes of its inhabitants; land owners who also practiced agriculture (zamindars) and common people performing everyday professions i.e. cobblers, hairdressers and carpenters locally called kammees (derived from workers).

During 1960's the zamindars started migrating to Europe and Middle East in search of better living standards followed by kammees in 1970's, majority of who embarked to Europe and Arab countries. This resulted in narrowing a big economic gulf between these two classes and in abandoning kammees' professions thus leaving a skills vacuum. People from villages around Kharian at some extent, for a short term, filled this vacuum but the news of the available opportunities (also demand for goods and services of large army population in cantonment) spread far away areas of Pakistan and people not only started settling in Kharian but also brought their relatives and friends. Now a days its diverse population routes back to as far as northern areas of Pakistan who are active citizens of Kharian. The current population of the city reflects this strongly and its majority runs their own businesses or works for these.

Obviously increase in population resulted in increasing the area of the city. At one time there were small numbers of community areas called mohallas, which included Mohallah Banni, Mohallah GT Road, Main Bazaar, Mohallah Thathee, Mohallah Sattar Pura, Mohallah Nia Aara, Mohallah Parbat, Guliana Road and Butcher Khana. Nowadays surrounding small villages like Thhupala, Biddar, Pindi Haqeeqa and Dillo are part of Kharian.

Kharian is the richest tehsil of Pakistan. It was proved by various means including media and govt. department surveys. The majority of the males and also many families are settled in Middle East, Europe and America from decades. They are playing their tiny part in Pakistan's economy through contributing a lot of foreign exchange to Pakistan.