Pasrur

Pasrur is a historical city of Sialkot District in the Punjab province of Pakistan and the capital of Pasrur Tehsil. It is divided into 26 wards of the municipal committee and is linked by road to Narowal, Sialkot, Daska and Gujranwala. Its railway station lies on a line connecting Pasrur and Sialkot to Lahore through Narowal Junction. The town is said to have been founded in the reign of the Mughal emperor Babur by a Jatt named Chaudhry Matika Bajwa, and the remains of a bridge built by Shah Daula are nearby. Under British rule it was the headquarters of its tehsil, 18 miles south of Sialkot on the road to Amritsar, with a municipality created in 1867 and hand-printed cotton as its one manufacture of note. The 2023 census counted 102,717 people.