Lahore

Lahore is one of the major towns of Pakistan in the province of Punjab, and is the U.S.A.’s 2nd-maximum populous town after Karachi. The metropolis is positioned inside the north-jap give up of Pakistan's Punjab province. Lahore is one in every of Pakistan's wealthiest cities with an predicted GDP of $127 billion as of 2017. Lahore is the historic cultural centre of the Punjab area, and is one of Pakistan's maximum socially liberal, innovative, and cosmopolitan towns. Lahore's origins reach into antiquity.

The metropolis has been controlled with the aid of severa empires at some stage in the route of its history, consisting of the Hindu Shahis, Ghaznavids, Ghurids, and Delhi Sultanate via the medieval era. Lahore reached the peak of its splendour under the Mughal Empire among the overdue sixteenth and early 18th century, and served as its capital metropolis for some of years. The city turned into captured via the forces of Persian Emperor Nader Shah in 1739, and fell into a length of decay even as being contested among extraordinary powers. Lahore sooner or later have become capital of the Sikh Empire in the early nineteenth century, and regained an awful lot of its lost grandeur.