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Inauguration Ceremony of Shuttle Train

Deputy Commissioner Gujranwala, Lieutenant (R) Sohail Ashraf attended inauguration ceremony of Gujranwala-…

HAVELI OF MAHARAJA RANJIT SINGH

Maharaja Ranjit Singh was the first Indian in a millennium to turn the tide of invasion back into the homelands of the traditional conquerors of India, the Pashtuns (Afghans), and thus, he became known as the Lion of Punjab. At their height, his domains extended from the Khyber Pass in the northwest to the Sutlej River in the east and from the Kashmir region at the northern limit of the Indian subcontinent southward to the Thar (Great Indian) Desert. After decades of unwillingness to protect the Sikh heritage, the Gujranwala district administration has planned the restoration and preservation of Maha Singh’s tomb, located on the premises of Sheranwala Bagh but is now a crumbling structure with encroachments.