Burewala officially declared and know as city of Education. Burewala derives its name from Chah Boreywala which was established prior to 1912. Burewala is an old Mandi and situated on Dehli Multan Road River Sutlej crosses Burewala near Jamlera and Sahuka. Derbar of Dewan Chawli Mashickh is also situated in Dewan Sahib at a distance of 18 km. from Burewala.In the very beginning it was just a jungle which was 'humanized' by local tribes called "Langrial". When the Pakpattan canal started its operations in this area, agriculture of the area developed and the jungle was cut to make cultivation fields
And so people started to settle in villages. As this area was in 'Eastern Canal Division' so it was named village no. 439/EB (E.B.= Eastern Bar). In the Northern side of Burewala, there are still signs of an old water canal which is now called Sukh Bias. Burewala is known for the invention of three wheel motorbike rickshaw known as Chandgari.”
City facts:Burewala has approximately 188,986 inhabitants (2006). Burewala has the first shrine of Hazrat Baba Haji Sher Dewan also called Dewan Sahib, who was one of the earliest Muslim saints in the Burewala is the birthplace of the Bollywood legend, late Rajesh Khanna whose family home stands there to this day. In sports, World renowned former fast bowler of Pakistan cricket team, Waqar Younis is from Burewala and is dubbed as "Burewala Express."
The world's tallest cricketer with the height of 7'1, Mohammad Irfan also hails from Burewala. Major Tufail Muhammad who got Nishan-e-Haider, subcontinent.Pakistan's highest military award, also belonged to a Gujjar family from Burewala. Nilli Bar Agriculture Research Institute was inaugurated in the middle of 2009 for the growth of agriculture and related fields under the guidance of Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) and its development is on the way.
Asia's largest textile industry was in the city of Burewala, owned by Dawood Group of Industries called (BTM) Burewala Textile Mills, which is now known as Lawrencepur Limited.Burewala is surrounded by boundaries of few industrial and agricultural cities (e.g. Vehari, Arifwala, Chichawatni, Hasilpur, Chishtian)
Burewala has an all seasonal grain market in the area and it is a major business center. Other business activities include 7 Flour Mills, 50+ rice mills, 50+ cotton ginning factories and about 250+ oil mills and an extensively growing network of rice husking/processing mills, cotton ginneries & flour mills. It is Pakistan's second largest cotton-seed-cake producing city (after Rahim YarKhan).
. Dawood Lawrencepur Limited (formerly known as Burewala Textile Mills Limited) is also located in the city with an installed ring spinning capacity of 216,000 spindles (the unit production was stopped by the group management due to some unavoidable circumstances in 2008). Three PVC products factories are also situated in the city.
Management of Kings College of Health Sciences, keeping in view, the passion of people of Burewala towards education decided to start its campus at Burewala Kings College of Health Sciences, Burewala campus established in a very short time period of 3 months, Started from July 2014 and got affiliation from Pharmacy council of Pakistan in October 2014 for . Burewala campus is the first Pharmacy College established at tehsil level in all over Pakistan
Due to great passion to words education in Burewala Kings College of Health Sciences full filled all its sanctioned seats of diploma in pharmacy program in its first in take.We have highly competent, motivated and energetic faculty and administration staff at Burewala campus. maintaining standard of quality education in all its campuses at the same level as in main campus Sahiwal.Initially Kings College offered Diploma in Pharmacy / Pharmacy Technician course in Burewala campus later on
Kings College management has planned to launch different degree programs in the fields of health sciences and biosciences maintaining its speciality in the field of health sciences and biosciences. A great combination of professionals and infrastructure is serving the community of city of education Burewala. State of the art laboratories and well equipped updated library is available for practical work to enhance the exposure of the students in the field of pharmacy.
