Batapur is a town near the city of Lahore, Pakistan. It was established as a residence for the workers of a Bata shoe factory. The nearest airport is the Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore, an approximately twenty-minute drive on the Lahore Ring Road, which was destroyed during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965^[1] and again during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.^{[citation needed]}