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Walton (Pakistan) Railway Station
Walton railway station ( ur, ) is located in Walton cantonment, Lahore district of Punjab province of the Pakistan. It is named after Sir Cusach Walton, son of Frederick Walton. History In March 1930, a training school of North West Railways, now known as Pakistan Railways Academy, was founded which was inaugurated by the then Governor of the Punjab, Sir Geoffrey Fitzhervey de Montmorency. Incidents ''Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 1998'' :On the Tuesday morning, 10 March 1998, a bomb blast occurred here in a Lahore-bound train killing at least 10 and wounding more than 80 people. State authorities described the bomb as a timing device that was planted at an earlier stop. Although, no one claimed responsibility but Pakistan's government blamed the attack on its neighbor India. See also * List of railway stations in Pakistan * Pakistan Railways Pakistan Railways ( ur, ) is the national, state-owned railway company of Pakistan. Founded in 1861 and headquartered in L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Railways (Pakistan)
The Ministry of Railways ( ur, , ''Wazarat-e-Railway'', abbreviated as MoR) is a ministry of the Government of Pakistan tasked with planning, administrating and overseeing government policies for the development of the national rail network, Pakistan Railways. Originally a department of the Ministry of Communications, in May 1974 it formed into an autonomous ministry of the federal government. The ministry headquarters is located at Block D of the Pak Secretariat in Islamabad. History 1858–1947 In 1858, several railway companies began laying track and operating in what is today Pakistan. The present Pakistan Railways network was originally built as a patchwork of local rail links operated by small private railway companies. These included the Scinde Railway, Punjab Railway, Delhi Railway and Indus Steam Flotilla companies. In 1870, these 4 companies were amalgamated into the Scinde, Punjab & Delhi Railway company. Shortly thereafter, several other railways lines were built i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walton, Lahore
Walton Cantonment is a cantonment area situated in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It is named after Sir Cusach Walton, son of Frederick Walton. History Lahore Cantonment with its increasing population and extensions to the boundaries had become difficult to manage and in 1998 it was bifurcated into two administrative divisions, Lahore Cantonment and the new Walton Cantonment. According to the Zoning Plan of Walton Cantt. Area, the cantonment is spread over 10,000 acres. The estimated population is about 700,000. Education * Civil Services Academy Neighbourhoods * Cavalry Ground Walton railway station Walton railway station is a railway station located in Walton Cantontment. It is one of the urban stations of the city which are served by commuter trains of Lahore. A large number of commuters use this station to get access to the city of Lahore Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th most populous city in the world, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punjab, Pakistan
Punjab (; , ) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in central-eastern region of the country, Punjab is the second-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the largest province by population. It shares land borders with the Pakistani provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the north-west, Balochistan to the south-west and Sindh to the south, as well as Islamabad Capital Territory to the north-west and Autonomous Territory of AJK to the north. It shares an International border with the Indian states of Rajasthan and Punjab to the east and Indian-administered Kashmir to the north-east. Punjab is the most fertile province of the country as River Indus and its four major tributaries Ravi, Jhelum, Chenab and Sutlej flow through it. The province forms the bulk of the transnational Punjab region, now divided among Pakistan and India. The provincial capital is Lahore — a cultural, modern, historical, economic, and cosmopolitan centre of Pakistan. Other major cities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's Islam by country#Countries, second-largest Muslim population just behind Indonesia. Pakistan is the List of countries and dependencies by area, 33rd-largest country in the world by area and 2nd largest in South Asia, spanning . It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by India to India–Pakistan border, the east, Afghanistan to Durand Line, the west, Iran to Iran–Pakistan border, the southwest, and China to China–Pakistan border, the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the north, and also shares a maritime border with Oman. Islamabad is the nation's capital, while Karachi is its largest city and fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GlobalSecurity
GlobalSecurity.org is an American nonpartisan, independent, nonprofit organization that serves as a think tank, and research and consultancy group. Focus The site is focused on national and international security issues; military analysis, systems, and strategies; intelligence matters; and space policy analysis. History It was founded in December 2000 by John Pike, who had worked since 1983 with the Federation of American Scientists, where he directed the space policy, cyberstrategy, military analysis, nuclear resource, and intelligence resource projects. GlobalSecurity.org is headquartered in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area in Alexandria, Virginia, and Pike remains as its director. The website's target audience includes journalists, policy-makers, scholars, political scientists, military and defense personnel, and the public. It supplies background information and developing news stories, providing online analysis and articles that analyze what are sometimes little-disc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan Railways Academy
Pakistan Railways Academy ( ur, ) or PRA, is the central training academy for employees of Pakistan Railways. History PRA was originally established as a training school for the employees of the North Western State Railway in Lyallpur (now Faisalabad) in January 1925. The school was shifted to Walton, Lahore on 8 March 1929 and named ''Walton Training School'' after Col. C.E. Walton, who was the general manager of the North-Western State Railway at the time. In 1954, the ''United Nations Regional Railway Training Centre'' was established by ECAFE (now ESCAP) at PRA. An ''Advanced Railway Course'' was introduced for the participants from the Railways of ESCAP, the Middle East and African Region. In 1958, the ''Regional Railway Training Center'' was taken over by the government and renamed the ''Pakistan Inter-Regional Railway Training College or ''PIRRTC''. In 1983, the school was renamed ''Directorate of Research & Training'' by merging several institutions. In 2000, it was rena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Fitzhervey De Montmorency
Sir Geoffrey Fitzhervey de Montmorency (23 August 1876 – 25 February 1955) was an Anglo-Irish colonial administrator. He was Governor of the Punjab. Work He was born in the townland of Castlemorris, near Knocktopher, in County Kilkenny, to Waller de Montmorency, a Church of Ireland The Church of Ireland ( ga, Eaglais na hÉireann, ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Kirk o Airlann, ) is a Christian church in Ireland and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion. It is organised on an all-Ireland basis and is the second ... clergyman, and Mary O'Brien. He is buried in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge. References * ‘DE MONTMORENCY, Sir Geoffrey Fitzhervey’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 201accessed 11 March 2013 * ;Specific Links 1876 births 1955 deaths 20th-century Anglo-Irish people Commanders of the Order of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terrorist Incidents In Pakistan In 1998
* 28 February — 8 people were killed on Saturday by two bombs exploding 20 minutes apart in the eastern neighborhood of Karachi. A music store and a hardware shop were targeted in the attack. Earlier on Thursday and Friday, 3 bombs exploded in the Punjab province — killing 3 people on a train, 5 people in a bus and wounding 7 in a crowded market. * 9 March — 7 people were wounded by a bomb explosion outside a court in Sukkur. * 9 March — 5 people were killed and 35 wounded by a bomb explosion on Chiltan Express traveling from Lahore to Quetta. The explosion occurred while the train was crossing a bridge over a canal near Pattoki. There were reports that some people had fallen in the canal. * 10 March — On the Tuesday morning, a bomb blast occurred on Walton railway station, in a Lahore-bound train killing at least 10 and wounding more than 80 people. State authorities described the bomb as a timing device that was planted at an earlier stop. Although, no one claimed respo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Railway Stations In Pakistan
The following are railway stations in Pakistan. Azad Kashmir Balochistan * Aab-e-Gum railway station * Bukhtiarabad Domki railway station * Chaman railway station * Dalbandin railway station * Damboli railway station * Dera Allah Yar railway station * Dera Murad Jamali railway station * Dingra railway station * Dozan railway station * Hirok railway station * Koh-e-Taftan railway station * Kolpur railway station * Mach railway station * Mangoli railway station * Mushkaf railway station * Nushki railway station * Nuttall railway station * Panir railway station * Perak railway station * Quetta railway station * Sar-I-Ab railway station * Spezand railway station * Shela Bagh railway station * Sibi railway station * Spezand Junction railway station Gilgit-Baltistan Islamabad Capital Territory * Islamabad * Golra Sharif Jn Khyber Pakhtunkhwa * Havelian railway station * Kohat Tehsil railway station * Nowshera Junction railway station * Peshawar Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
