Toba Tek Singh

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Toba Tek Singh (Urdu: ٹوبہ ٹیک سنگھ) is a district in the Punjab province of Pakistan.

[edit] History

It was created in 1982 when it was carved out and separated from the Faisalabad District. It took its name from the city of Toba Tek Singh, which in turn was named after a Sikh religious figure. It is reported that Mr. Singh used to give water to the thirsty travellers who went by the land to the other towns in the old days, on whose name this long plain area later named the city of Toba Tek Singh. At the time when Lyallpur's name was changed into Faisalabad, Toba Tek Singh's name was wished also to be changed by the authorities but the local people's wishes were respected and it still is the same name of the city.

Toba Tek Singh occupies 3252 square kilometers and is made up of large areas of lowlands that flood regularly during the rainy season; the floods originate frequently from the Ravi River that runs along the southern and southeastern borders.

A census carried out in 1998 reported a population of 1,621,593 of which 18.43% were urban.[1]

The district has three tehsils: Kamalia, Gojra and Toba Tek Singh itself.

Toba Tek Singh is district of Faisalabad division and other district of Faisalabad division is Jhang and Faisalabad itself.

Mohammad Sarwar (born 18 August 1952, Toba Tek Singh Pakistan) is a politician in the United Kingdom, the Labour member of Parliament for Glasgow Central, Scotland. He was the UK's first Muslim MP, and an opponent of the 2003 Iraq war.