Khanewal

Khanewal is a city and the capital of Khanewal District in Punjab, Pakistan, the 36th largest city of the country by population. It contains Khanewal Junction railway station, the third largest railway junction in Pakistan, and its name is said to come from khan-e-wal. Before the partition it held a population of Hindus and Sikhs who migrated to India, and the district was created in 1985 by taking two tehsils, Kabirwala and Mian Channu, from Multan District. For years economic activity was low, because the population consisted mainly of railway employees living on the Kohna Khanewal side of the track. The 2023 census counted 281,890 people in the city, against 2,068,000 in the whole district at the 1998 census.