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'' Lahore Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. It is the capital of the province of Punjab where it is the largest city ...

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising a ...

. This village is named after the Ghurki

Arain Arain (also known as Raeen) are a large Punjabi agricultural tribe with strong political identity and organisation, found mainly in the Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh with a small population in parts of Indian Punjab, Uttar Pradesh ...

person who was notorious for being a biggest gold smuggler of asia (Haji Muhammad Asghar Ghurki (late)) along with his brothers Yousaf Ghurki, Ashraf Ghurki and Younas Ghurki. He was entitled as Gold King in Magazines of USA. Haji Muhammad Asghar Ghurki was the founder of Ghurki Hospital. Muhammad Asghar Ghurki became the MNA in 1985 in partyless general elections. Khalid Javed Ghurki, brother of Muhammad Asghar Ghurki and son of Haji Muhammad Asghar ghurki (late) belonging to a known political family of Lahore, Khalid was elected on the Pakistan People's Party's ticket in 1989. He was elected MNA in 1993 on the PPP ticket from Eastern Lahore and subsequently was made parliamentary secretary for railways. He also worked as Wagah Town nazim (mayor).PPP leader Khalid Ghurki is dead
Dawn (newspaper), Published 8 March 2011, Retrieved 8 March 2023 After developing medical complications a few years ago, Khalid Javed Ghurki died on 8 March 2011 due to renal failure. His wife,

Samina Khalid Ghurki Samina Khalid Ghurki (Urdu: ثمینہ خالد گرکی; born 13 August 1956) is a Pakistani politician of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). Ghurki was born on 13 August 1956 in Lahore in Ghurki Arain Family, Punjab and completed her degree at ...

replaced him in the political arena and made it to the National Assembly of Pakistan in the 2008 general elections on PPP platform.

was re-elected in 2008 from the same constituency. She was appointed Federal Minister of Special Education in the cabinet of Prime Minister

Yusuf Raza Gilani Yusuf Raza Gilani (Urdu: ; born 9 June 1952), is a Pakistani politician who served as 18th Prime Minister of Pakistan from 25 March 2008, until his retroactive disqualification and ouster by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on 26 April 2012. He ...

, Federal Minister of Environment and later Federal Minister of National Integration and Heritage in the cabinet of Prime Minister

Raja Pervaiz Ashraf Raja Pervaiz Ashraf ( ur, ; born 26 December 1950) is a Pakistani politician, businessman and agriculturist who is the current Speaker of the National Assembly and a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from NA-58 (Rawalpindi-II). He ...

. His nephew, Farooq Ghurki son of Yousaf Ghurki was a minister in the Shahbaz Sharif cabinet Married Khalid Javaid Ghurki, Samina is the mother of two sons and two daughters. Her family funds the Ghurki Trust Teaching Hospital in Ghurki, Lahore. Her late husband was a former Member of Parliament. Other family members in politics include Farooq Ghurki (former Provincial Minister for Information and Technology), Arshad Ghurki, Muhammad Iqbal Ghurki (former Provincial Minister). She was among the 9 MPs to sign the United Nations Development Fund for Women's (UNIFEM) "say no to violence against women" campaign in New York. She was appointed as president of PPP Punjab Ghurki village is located near the

Wagah Wagah ( ur, ) or Wagha (Shahmukhi pnb, ) is a village and union council (UC 181) located in the Wahga Zone near Lahore City District, Pakistan. The town is famous for the Wagah border ceremony and also serves as a goods transit terminal and ...

Border.

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