Lahore Division
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Lahore Division was a former administrative division of the Punjab Province of Pakistan, until the reforms of 2000 abolished the third tier of government.
Lahore Division was also an administrative division of Punjab Province of British India. It extended along the right bank of the Sutlej River from the Himalaya to Multan, and comprised the six districts of Sialkot, Gujranwala, Montgomery, Lahore, Amritsar, and Gurdaspur. Total area, 17,154 sq. mi., pop. (1901) 5,598,463. The commissioner for the division also exercised political control over the hill state of Chamba. With the Partition of British India into the independent states of India and Pakistan in 1947, Lahore Division was divided among the two countries.
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| NWFP | Bannu | Dera Ismail Khan | Hazara | Kohat | Malakand | Mardan | Peshawar |
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| Punjab | Bahawalpur | Dera Ghazi Khan | Faisalabad | Gujranwala | Lahore | Multan | Rawalpindi | Sargodha |
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