Kharian Cantt is home to a number of military installations and is a hub for the Pakistani Army.

Roads, Railroad lines, fuel-storage tanks, a sewage system and treatment plant were constructed for First Five Thousand Troops.

The Large Army Base at Kharian called for a multiyear project to build facilities on 4000 Acre area to adjust 15000 Troops of Pakistan Armored Division.

USACE (U.S Army Corps of Engineers) constructed new facilities by the start of 1958 and provided space for Five Thousand Troops.

Prominent nearby cities and towns include Jhelum,Lalamusa, Dinga, Sarai Alamgir and Gujrat.

Not all express trains stop at the Kharian Cantt Railway station; public and private buses are the main means of transport.

The main railway line passes in Kharian (Parent City) thus providing good transportation to the Northern and Southern part of Pakistan Electric Shuttle Buses are operating inside the Cantonment but limited.