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Shorkot Cantonment

cantonment in Punjab, Pakistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ7501498 ↗
Source-derived summary

Shorkot Cantonment (Urdu: شورکوٹ چھاؤنی) is a cantonment area adjacent to PAF Base Rafiqui, 16 kilometers (9.9 mi) east from Shorkot city in Jhang district of Punjab province of Pakistan.

It is famous for Pakistan Air Force Base 'Rafiqui'.

Shorkot Cantonment Junction railway station is located in this cantonment.

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This entry incorporates text from “Shorkot Cantonment” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.