Economy
The rural areas around Ghakhar produce a variety of agricultural goods including wheat and rice. Ghakhar City(Mandi) also has a carpet/ Duree industry. Ghakhar City(Mandi) also has one of the biggest grid stations in Pakistan, which supplies electricity to the local area as well as to some major cities of the Punjab.
Ghakhar City(Mandi) is becoming an industrial city, with industries such as ceramics, marble, maize, and furniture.
There is a library called "Saddiqui Memorial Library" in the Town Committee. This library is named after Ahmed Hassan Siddiqui who was a well reputed educationist of this area. He contributed a lot in raising educational standard as well as the sports level of high schools there. He remained headmaster of DC High School Ghakhar for a number of years.
Ghakhar is very religious city.
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