Straight answers to the questions people actually ask about Burewala — where it is, how to reach it, what its postal code is, and what the town is known for. Every answer is sourced.
Burewala is a city in Vehari District, Punjab, Pakistan — the southern half of the province. It sits on the old Delhi–Multan Road at roughly 30.16°N, 72.68°E, between Multan to the south-west and Lahore to the north-east. Administratively it is the second-largest tehsil (sub-district) of Vehari District, in Multan Division.
Per the 2023 Census of Pakistan, Burewala is the 27th-largest city in Pakistan and a major urban centre of Vehari District. The city is the urban heart of a tehsil whose economy is overwhelmingly agricultural — see our history and economy page for the district-level figures.
Punjabi dominates: 94.03% of Burewala tehsil residents recorded Punjabi as their mother tongue in the 2023 census, with Urdu at 5.30%. English is used in schools, offices and — on this site — for the town's English-language record.
Three things stand out:
Fast bowlers. Waqar Younis — the “Burewala Express”, youngest man to captain Pakistan in Test cricket — and Mohammad Irfan, at 7 ft 1 in the tallest international cricketer ever, both come from here or the immediate area. Full profiles →
A war hero. Major Tufail Mohammad, recipient of the Nishan-e-Haider, Pakistan's highest gallantry award, is buried here with full military honours; the nearby town of Tufailabad is named for him.
Cotton and maize. The city is a trading and processing centre for one of Punjab's most productive canal-irrigated farm belts.
The name comes from Chah Boorhay Wala — “the place of Boorhay's well”. Before the canal colonies, a settler named Boorhay dug an unusually deep eight-foot well here that became the area's landmark. When the Sutlej Valley canals opened the land to mass settlement in the 1920s, the market town that grew around the well kept the name. The full story →
The main Burewala post office uses 61010. The Burewala Katchehry (courts) post office uses 61040. The telephone area code for the district is 067. (Source: Pakistan Post listings for Vehari District.)
Yes. Mandi Burewala railway station (station code MBWL) sits on the Lodhran–Raiwind Branch Line of Pakistan Railways, between Machhianwala and Gaggoo stations. Long-distance trains on the route — such as the Fareed Express between Karachi and Lahore — stop here, connecting Burewala directly to Pakistan's two largest cities.
By road: Burewala lies on the Delhi–Multan Road, with regular bus and van services to Multan, Lahore, Vehari, Arifwala and Baisal cities.
By rail: the station above, on the Lodhran–Raiwind branch line.
By air: the nearest major airports are Multan and Faisalabad; Lahore's Allama Iqbal International offers the widest connections.
It's more accurate to say Burewala is his family's town. Pakistani press reports (NDTV, The News, Geo) state that Rajesh Khanna — born Jatin Khanna in 1942, later India's first film “superstar” — was born in Burewala, where his father Lala Hiranand Khanna served as the founding headmaster of the city's MC High School from 1931 until Partition in 1947; a school board still bears his name, and the family's former house in Block H is locally known as “Jatin Niwas”. Standard reference works such as Wikipedia list his birthplace as Amritsar, so the precise birth-city is disputed — but the family's Burewala roots are not.
Cotton is the traditional cash crop of the canal colonies; wheat is the winter staple. Maize has been the standout grower — Vehari District's maize area more than doubled between 2019-20 and 2023-24, with production rising from about 428,000 tonnes to over 1.1 million tonnes. The full data →
This is an independent English-language guide to the city — the only one of its kind. Corrections, local knowledge and listings are welcome at hello@burewala.com. Contact page →
Answers compiled from the 2023 Census of Pakistan, Vehari District records, Pakistan Post postal-code listings, Pakistan Railways station records and contemporaneous press reporting. Last verified October 2026.