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Ghari Afghanan

Garhi Afghanan is a village in Taxila tehsil, Rawalpindi district, Punjab, Pakistan.

The place

Garhi Afghanan is a village in Taxila tehsil, Rawalpindi district, Punjab, Pakistan. It is situated beside Wah Cantt, about 33 km northwest of Islamabad. Its area is about 1.4 square kilometres. It has a population of about 11,000.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Ghari Afghanan

Airports
Islamabad (ISB), 28 km · Bacha Khan (PEW), 119 km · Srinagar (SXR), 185 km
Stations
Budho railway station, 1.7 km
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ghari Afghanan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe nearest major cities are Rawalpindi and Islamabad, both of which are less than 50 km away, and it is quite feasible to base yourself in either and visit Taxila on one or more day trips.
  • Get aroundTaxis, auto rickshaws and tangas (horse-drawn carriages) can be easily hailed near the museum.
  • Get aroundTangas and auto rickshaws are convenient for getting from one site to another.
  • Get aroundA taxi can be hired for as high as Rs 2,000 to see most of sites whereas a rickshaw can cost around Rs 1,000.

From Wikivoyage: Taxila, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Karimabad (Hunza)PK

    9 ways of moving, 35 sources

    330 km
  2. 02
    LehIN

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    444 km
  3. 03
    Tirthan ValleyIN

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    496 km
  4. 04
    KazaIN

    7 ways of moving, 18 sources

    523 km
  5. 05
    ChitkulIN

    7 ways of moving, 20 sources

    595 km

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Ghari Afghanan is 4 km from Wah Cantt, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.