Kasur district, adjacent to the Indian border, has been in the news frequently for all the wrong reasons. It is the home district of Nawab Mohammad Ahmed Khan, whose murder in the early 1970s culminated in the hanging of Pakistan’s first elected prime minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. In recent months, another son of the district was in the news at the national level: Ahmed Raza Kasuri, the lawyer son of the slain Nawab Mohammad Ahmed Khan. Kasuri earned a lot of scorn for defending the various acts of omission and commission by General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf.

     Kasur district has also given the country two of its foreign ministers. The duo – Sardar Assef Ahmed Ali and Mian Khursheed Mahmud Kasuri. During the elections 2008 Sardar Assdef Ahmed Ali defeated to Khursheed Mahmud Kasuri.

     Moving on from politics, throughout the 1990s Kasur was at the centre of a debate on environmental pollution as well as being seen as a hub for cross-border smuggling. On the positive side, the district is famous for its sweetmeats and spicy fish. The city of Kasur houses the shrine of Baba Bulleh Shah, the Sufi poet. It is also the birthplace of singers Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Ustad Barkat Ali Khan and melody queen, Noor Jehan.