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Hamza Shahbaz, former CM of Punjab (2022) Imran Khan, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (2018–2022) Malik Allahyar Khan (1927–2007), former member of parliament; Maryam Nawaz Sharif, Chief Minister of Punjab (2024) Mian Aslam Iqbal, Provincial Minister of Industries & Commerce (2018–2022) Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, former President of Pakistan
Punjab is Pakistan's most industrialized province, with the industrial sector comprising 24 percent of the province's gross domestic product. [8] It is known for its relative prosperity, [9] and has the lowest rate of poverty among all Pakistani provinces.
While the total population of Punjab is 110 million as noted in the 2017 Pakistan census, [53] ethnic Punjabis comprise approximately 44.7% of the national population. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] With an estimated national population of 252 million in 2024, [ 5 ] ethnic Punjabis thus number approximately 112.8 million in Pakistan; [ a ] [ 54 ] this makes ...
The Saraikis are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group inhabiting parts of central and southeastern Pakistan, primarily in the southern part of the Pakistani province of Punjab. [21] They are mainly found in Derajat, a cultural region of central Pakistan, located in the region where the provinces of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Balochistan meet.
Eden had a large impact, as her published work Portraits of the Princes and People of India (which included lithographic depictions of Sikhs and Punjabis) was a big success and many copies of the work made their way to Punjab where they ended up giving further shape to the emerging Punjabi Company School. [13]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 February 2025. Multi-ethnic group in Pakistan Ethnic group Saraikis سرائیکی Depiction of Saraiki men near Derawar Fort Total population c. 20 million Regions with significant populations Pakistan 20,324,637 Languages Saraiki Religion Majority Sunni Islam Related ethnic groups Other Indo-Aryan ...
Sufi music and Qawali, commonly practiced in Punjab, Pakistan; are other important genres in the Punjab region. [78] [79] Folk music of Punjab is the traditional music of Punjab produced using traditional musical instruments like Tumba, Algoza, Dhadd, Sarangi, Chimta and more.
Most of the country's people live in rural areas, but two large and growing megacities exist: the coastal Karachi and Lahore in eastern Punjab. Numerous smaller cities (such as Faisalabad , Rawalpindi , Peshawar , and the capital Islamabad ) dot the rest of the country.