Safdarabad Tehsil

Infobox Tehsil Pakistan
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official_name= Safdarabad


province= Punjab
district= Nankana Sahib
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census_year= 1998
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towns= 1
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nazim= Ms. Rifaqat Ijaz Rai
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map_text =Location within Pakistan

Safdarabad is an administrative subdivision (Tehsil) of Nankana Sahib District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. [ [http://www.nrb.gov.pk/lg_election/lge_11.asp Local Government Elections 2005: Women Nazims and Naib Nazims (as on January 2006) - Government of Pakistan] ] The city of Safdar Abad is the headquarters of the tehsil, until 2005 it was a tehsil of Sheikhpura District, but in that year Sheikhpura was bifurcated and the district of Nankana Sahib was created. - with Safdarabad as one of its tehsils. The city of Safdarabad lies 95 km from Lahore the provincial capital of Punjab. The area has a population of more than 19,000 the majority of whom are Muslims.

Economy

Agriculture is one of the main sources of employment, the town has been a popular grain market for last 75 years as the town is located in a highly fertile area. The Rakh Branch canal passes near one side of the Safdarabad city to Sangla Hill and is an irrigation source.

Famous people

* Rana Bilal Haider - The Former Cricketer of Pakistan.

* Chaudary M.Bashir Ahmad- president of Punjab Government schools. All School are working under instructions of Ch.Bashir Ahmad. He was born in the Village near Safdarabad city.

Railway Station

The Central railway station is the main railway station of Safdarabad built during the British region around the nineteenth century. The station is used to take people to all parts of Pakistan from Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Quetta, Peshawar and many more cities and towns of Pakistan by RailwayLines.

A large amount of cargo is daily exported and imported into Safdarabad with many deliveries a day from all parts of the Punjab Province.

ee also

*Sangla Hill
*Khanqah Dogran
*Nankana Sahib District

References

External links

[http://www.dawn.com/2005/06/16/nat38.htm Case against hundreds of law-breakers: Indecision on Nankana tehsils]