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Wazirabad

WAZIRABAD, a town of British India, in Gujranwala dis trict of the Punjab, near the right bank of the river Chenab, 62 m.

N. of Lahore. Pop. (1931) 20,707. It is an important railway junction. The main line of the North-Western railway here crosses the Chenab by the Alexandra bridge, opened in 1876. Boat-build ing and manufactures of steel and iron are carried on.