Members bringing you a COMPLETELY futuristic but a very old demand Amritsar-Firozpur Border area people. Before 1947 , there used to be tracks from Khemkaran (Indian Border Village) to Kasur Town (Pakistan Border village). Kindly see the map attached. The Black color arrowed Line from Khemkaran to Ferozpur through Pakistan was the original line Pre-Independence which used to run along the Main road connecting Khemkaran Village with Nearest Towns (Kasur) and further through Husainiwala Border Check post to Ferozpur. But due to Partition, Tracks got defunct from Khemkaran.Railways if just could make a mere 30 km railway tracks from Patti (on...
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KEMK/Khem Karan
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Before 1947 , there used to be tracks from Khemkaran (Indian Border Village) to Kasur Town (Pakistan Border village). Kindly see the map attached. The Black color arrowed Line from Khemkaran to Ferozpur through Pakistan was the original line Pre-Independence which used to run along the Main road connecting Khemkaran Village with Nearest Towns (Kasur) and further through Husainiwala Border Check post to Ferozpur. But as the Partition line was drawn by Indian Ministers , the people of these border villages have to suffer the most. One such example is Khemkaran village which is now somehow Cut off from main land....
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KEMK/Khem Karan
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Khem Karn Railway Station -------------------------which was captured by Pakistani military during the war of 1965. It was the site of a major tank battle in 1965 resulting it also being known as the graveyard of tanks. In pic you would see Commander-in-Chief Pakistan Army, General Muhammad Musa visiting the captured Khemkaran Railway Station which was then in Amritsar Distrcit and now in Tarn Taran District. Before partition it was in Lahore Dist. -----------------------------------------------The town used to be easily accessible to the city of Kasur, Pakistan only 8 km away, and to Ferozepur 35 km away, but since India and Pakistan...
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KEMK/Khem Karan
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Khem Karn Railway Station -------------------------which was captured by Pakistani military during the war of 1965. It was the site of a major tank battle in 1965 resulting it also being known as the graveyard of tanks. In pic you would see Commander-in-Chief Pakistan Army, General Muhammad Musa visiting the captured Khemkaran Railway Station which was then in Amritsar Distrcit and now in Tarn Taran District. Before partition it was in Lahore Dist. -----------------------------------------------The town used to be easily accessible to the city of Kasur, Pakistan only 8 km away, and to Ferozepur 35 km away, but since India and Pakistan...
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