Pial Kalan
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Pial Kalan is a town and Union Council
of Kasur District
in the Punjab
province of Pakistan
. It is part of Kasur Tehsil
and is located at 30°55'0N 74°13'60E with an altitude of 181 metres (597 feet).
Pial Kalan is a village situated in the central punjab. It has an approximate population of 15000 and most of the inhabitants are farmers. It has very fertile land and gets water from nearby canal and tub wells. The major crops are rice, wheat, and sugarcane. The surrounding villages and towns include Usmanwala, Pial Khurd, Dhing Shah, Chah Rakhwala and Nainwal. There are two government primary schools for boys and one middle school for girls. Nearby high schools for boys and girls are situated at Usmanwala, a neighbouring town in the south. The village is linked to Depal Pore Road by two adjacent roads, one ending up at Dhing Shah and the other near Khudian Khas. The transport facilities are not very good although some vans pick the passengers for Kasur and even Lahore early in the morning and drop back after the evening. However during the day, people use rikshaws and horse carts to reach at main Depal Pore Road near Dhing Shah, where they can get lorries and buses for Kasur, Lahore, Chunian and Pattoki.
Almost whole of the population speak punjabi. However some educated persons can speak Urdu or even English as well. More than 99% population of the village are Muslims and all follow Sunni Islam. Christians constitute rest of the population. Muslims and Christians live together peacefully and no dispute have been witnessed in the past.
The main castes in the village are Arain and Kamboh. Both holds most of arable land and control most of the business activities. But now there is fully peace. Other castes include sheikhs, khokhar, taili, nai, and kumhars.
Union Councils of Pakistan
A sherwan or village council in Pakistan is an elected local government body consisting of 21 councillors, and headed by a nazim and a naib nazim...
of Kasur District
Kasur District
Kasur District or Qasur District is one of the districts in the province of Punjab, Pakistan It came into existence on 1 July 1976. Earlier it was part of Lahore District....
in the Punjab
Punjab (Pakistan)
Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...
province of Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
. It is part of Kasur Tehsil
Kasur Tehsil
Kasur Tehsil is an administrative subdivision of Kasur District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The city of Kasur is the headquarters of the tehsil.-Administration:...
and is located at 30°55'0N 74°13'60E with an altitude of 181 metres (597 feet).
Pial Kalan is a village situated in the central punjab. It has an approximate population of 15000 and most of the inhabitants are farmers. It has very fertile land and gets water from nearby canal and tub wells. The major crops are rice, wheat, and sugarcane. The surrounding villages and towns include Usmanwala, Pial Khurd, Dhing Shah, Chah Rakhwala and Nainwal. There are two government primary schools for boys and one middle school for girls. Nearby high schools for boys and girls are situated at Usmanwala, a neighbouring town in the south. The village is linked to Depal Pore Road by two adjacent roads, one ending up at Dhing Shah and the other near Khudian Khas. The transport facilities are not very good although some vans pick the passengers for Kasur and even Lahore early in the morning and drop back after the evening. However during the day, people use rikshaws and horse carts to reach at main Depal Pore Road near Dhing Shah, where they can get lorries and buses for Kasur, Lahore, Chunian and Pattoki.
Almost whole of the population speak punjabi. However some educated persons can speak Urdu or even English as well. More than 99% population of the village are Muslims and all follow Sunni Islam. Christians constitute rest of the population. Muslims and Christians live together peacefully and no dispute have been witnessed in the past.
The main castes in the village are Arain and Kamboh. Both holds most of arable land and control most of the business activities. But now there is fully peace. Other castes include sheikhs, khokhar, taili, nai, and kumhars.