Toba Tek Singh
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| Toba Tek Singh | |
| General Information | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Province | Punjab |
| Location | |
| Area | 3,252 km² |
| Time zone | PST (UTC+5) |
| No. of Towns | 6 |
| Population | 1,621,593 1998 |
| density | 498 persons/km² |
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| No. of Union Councils | |
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Toba Tek Singh (Urdu: ٹوبہ ٹیک سنگھ) is a district in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
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[edit] History
One of the older towns of pre-partition united Punjab separated from the Faisalabad District in 1982. Named after a Sikh religious figure Tek Singh. Legend has it that Mr. Singh a kind hearted man served water and provided shelter to the worn out and thirsty travellers passing by a small pond ("TOBA" in Punjabi) which eventually was called Toba Tek Singh, and the surrounding settlement acquired the same name. During 1970's, when many Pakistani cities were renamed in an effort to "Islamize", Toba Tek Singh remained one of the very few cities to maintain it's original name.
[edit] Area and Population
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.toba tek use to have a big sikh population but majority of them where whiped out in the set up riots.
A census carried out in 1998 reported a population of 1,621,593 of which 18.43% were urban.[1]
[edit] Administration
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.
Major towns in Toba Tek Singh District are: Toba Tek Singh, Gojra, Kamalia, Pirmahal, Rajana, Snadhilianwali,
[edit] Famous People
Sadat Hasan Manto, an Urdu Novelist [2] who wrote a screenplay "Toba Tek Singh" [3] which was directed by Afia Nathaniel [4] in 2005.
Chaudhry Mukhtar Ahmed Nusrat, a politician who started the first free medical hospital and donated prime land for the school.
Mohammad Sarwar (born 18 August 1952, Toba Tek Singh), a politician in the United Kingdom who served as 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.
Chaudhry Faisal Qazafi, a politician and businessman who started a new trend in politics to solve people's problems at their door step.
[edit] See also
Choudhry Asad ur Rehman ex Minister and MNA.
[edit] External link
- Toba Tek Singh profile on Punjab's government website
- Toba Tek Singh District Government Profile
- Pirmahal Web site
- Pir Mahal and Toba Tek Singh Web Masters Sites
- Islamic Web Sites About Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh Lahore
Visit The Complete Urdu and English Web Site Of Hazrat Data Ganj bakhsh
- http://www.dataganjbakhsh.com and a Mirror Site *http://www.dataganjbakhsh.co.nr
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Towns & Cities of Toba Tek Singh District |
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| Toba Tek Singh (city) | Pirmahal Kamalia | Gojra | Rajana | Sindhlianwali |
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| Administrative Divisions of Punjab (Pakistan) |  |
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| Capital | Lahore | |
| Districts | Attock | Bahawalnagar | Bahawalpur | Bhakkar | Chakwal | Dera Ghazi Khan | Faisalabad | Gujranwala | Gujrat | Hafizabad | Jhang | Jhelum | Kasur | Khanewal | Khushab | Lahore | Layyah | Lodhran | Mandi Bahauddin | Mianwali | Multan | Muzaffargarh | Nankana Sahib | Narowal | Okara | Pakpattan | Rahim Yar Khan | Rajanpur | Rawalpindi | Sahiwal | Sargodha | Sheikhupura | Sialkot | Toba Tek Singh | Vehari | |
