Toba Tek Singh

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Toba Tek Singh
General Information
Country	Pakistan
Province	Punjab
Coordinates	30°58′″N 72°29′″E / <span class="geo-dec geo" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for Expression error: Unexpected / operator Expression error: Unexpected / operator">Expression error: Unexpected / operator, Expression error: Unexpected / operatorCoordinates: 30°58′″N 72°29′″E / <span class="geo-dec geo" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for Expression error: Unexpected / operator Expression error: Unexpected / operator">Expression error: Unexpected / operator, Expression error: Unexpected / operator
Area	3,252 km² (1,256 sq mi)
Time zone	PST (UTC+5)
No. of Towns	6
Population	1,621,593 (1998)
Density	498/km² (1,290/sq mi)
Government
No. of Union Councils	82

"The official homepage of local government Toba Tek Singh."

Toba Tek Singh is a city and tehsil of Toba Tek Singh District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located at 30°58'0N 72°28'60E^[1].

1 History
2 Administration
3 In popular culture
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

During British rule Toba Tek Singh was a tehsil of Lyallpur District, the population of the town in 1906 was 1,874^[2]

[edit] Administration

As well as being a district capital, the city is also the administrative centre of Toba Tek Singh tehsil, one of the three subdivisions of the district - the tehsil itself is composed of 32 Union Councils^[3], three of which form the city of Toba Tek Singh.

[edit] In popular culture

Sadat Hasan Manto, an Urdu Novelist ^[4] wrote a short story entitled "Toba Tek Singh" which is a satire on Partition; in the story, an inmate in an asylum frets over the question of whether his home town Toba Tek Singh is now in India or Pakistan. It was adapted into a short movie of the same name ^[5] directed by Afia Nathaniel ^[6] in 2005.