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Faisalabad
Faisalabad is the third largest city of Pakistan after
Karachi and Lahore located in the province of Punjab. Untill 1979 
Faisalabad was formerly
called Lyallpur, after Sir Charles James Lyall, lieutenant governor of the Punjab.
It became headquarters of the Lower Chenab colony and in 1898 was incorporated
as a municipality. It is also known as " Little Manchester " because of
its textile mills, it has grown rapidly in just a century and is famed as the
University of Punjab's Agriculture campus (established 1961).
The city was founded in 1890 and offers little of interest to the tourist. Sir Charles James Lyalllaid out the town in the shape of the British flag: a rectangle with across and two diagonals; a clock tower stands at the crossroads.
Its most distinguished feature (now indescribably filthy) is the town center which was laid out patriotically by Sir James Lyall in the shape of the British flag----a rectangle containing a cross and two diagonals. At the center is a clock tower where eight roads meet. These eight segments form the town's main bazaars.
