page_title: Kasur
section_title: Modern
hierarchical_section_title: Kasur / History / Modern
caption_attribution_description: English: APO/February,54,A31dFrom Balloki Head Kasur Carts, cattles, donkeys, dogs, men, women, boys, girls, babies, bicycles, baggage – ail in constant move under pall of dust. Photo Number:-37160
context_page_description: Kasur is a city to south of Lahore, in the Pakistani province of Punjab. The city serves as the headquarters of Kasur District. Kasur is the 24th largest city of Pakistan by population. It is also known for being the burial place of the 17th-century Sufi-poet Bulleh Shah. It is farther west of the border with neighbouring India, and bordered to Lahore, Sheikhupura, and the Okara District of Punjab Province. Kasur was founded by Pashtun migrants in 1525.
context_section_description: After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, the minority Hindus and Sikhs were to migrate to India while the Muslim refugees, migrated from India and settled in Kasur. Kasur emerged as a major center of leather tanning after independence, and is home to 1/3rd of Pakistan's tanning industry.
  In January 2018, two protestors were killed in rioting over the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl. There had been 12 similar murders in the past two years, five of which have been linked to one suspect, leading to widespread anger at police failures.
caption: Refugees at Balloki, Kasur during the Partition of British India in 1947
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