Month: August 2014

Tarbela is one of the 44 union councils, administrative subdivision, of Haripur District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The name of this town is due to the Tarbela Dam located here. Khalabat township is divided into four sectors, sectors 1 and 2 are called Tarbela union and sector 3 and 4 called Khalabat union council. On 1st Baisakh, the Hindu inhabitants of the vicinity and of the Hazara plain assemble to bathe in the Indus river. The assembly is of a religious character, and is kept up for two days. … Read More >Tarbela

Talagang is the city in province Punjab of Pakistan. It is also the headquarters of Talagang Tehsil, is a town located in Chakwal District, Punjab. It is located at 32°55’0N 72°25’0E and lies about 30 kilometers from the M2 motorway and about 45 kilometers from the district capital, Chakwal. Punjabi is the main language of Talagang while there are also other languages spoken here in this city. About 90% of the people speak Punjabi language and the rest 10% of the people speak other languages. … Read More >Talagang

Sohawa is a city in province Punjab of Pakistan. It is an administrative sub-division (tehsil) of Jhelum District, situated in the Punjab. According to folk etymology the original name was Soo Awa which means “100 fences of potters. Sohawa is situated in north-western part of the district Jhelum, Punjab lies on GT road between Gujar Khan and Dina. Its geographical coordinates are 32° 49′ 30″ North, 73° 45′ 55”. … Read More >Sohawa

Shakargarh is the city in province Punjab of Pakistan. It is also the headquarter of Shakargarh Tehsil, is a city in the north-east of Narowal District, Punjab. It borders Jammu to the north and Sialkot to the west. The city is located at 32°16’0N 75°10’0E and is situated at the west bank of the Ravi River. The total area of Shakargarh is approximately 1,272 square kilometres. … Read More >Shakargarh

Sarai Alamgir is a city in province Punjab of Pakistan. It is the chief town of the tehsil of the same name. It is part of the Gujrat district in the north of the Punjab. Sarai Alamgir is one of the three tehsils of the district of Gujrat. The town is located on the eastern bank of the Jhelum River, across from the larger town of Jhelum. East of the town is the Upper Jhelum Canal. Sarai Alamgir is located at Latitude of 32°54′00″N and Longitude of 73°45′00″E and lies at an altitude of 232 meters. … Read More >Sarai Alamgir

Sangla Hill is a tehsil in the Nankana Sahib District of the Punjab Province of Pakistan. It lies 103 km from the provincial capital of Lahore. The city of Sangla Hill is 20 km south-west of Shahkot and 35 km north-west of Sheikhupura, at 313 metres above sea level. On the east side is Safdarabad Road, and on the north side the road to Hafizabad. To the west, the Main Faisalabad Road links to Faisalabad, and on the southern side is Shahkot Road. … Read More >Sangla Hill

Sahiwal is a city in the province Punjab of Pakistan. It presently is the administrative center of Sahiwal district, and previously was that of the former Sahiwal division. Its name was reinstated as Sahiwal in 1967 after the Sahi clan of Kharal Rajpoots who are the native inhabitants of this area. Sahiwal is approximately 180 km from the major city Lahore and is the city between Lahore and Multan. … Read More >Sahiwal

Safdarabad also known as Mandi Dhaban Singh is a City in Punjab province of Pakistan. It is in Sheikhupura District in the Punjab. The City is the headquarters of Safdarabad Tehsil which is an administrative subdivision of the district. Safdarabad was named after Mr Safdar-Ul-Haq Dogar Known as Chaba Dogar. Until May 2005 Safdarabad was a part of Sheikhupura District. At that time it became part of the new Nankana Sahib District. But due to the demand of local population it was added back to Sheikhupura on 01-12-2008. … Read More >Safdarabad

Sadiqabad is a city in province Punjab of Pakistan. It is also the capital of Sadiqabad Tehsil in Rahim Yar Khan District of Punjab. Sadiqabad, the most prominent Tehsil of Rahimyar Khan District. It is named after Amīr Sadiq Mohammad Khan V of Bahawalpur State. It is situated at the border of Sindh and Punjab. Sadiqabad is the southernmost city of Punjab province. To the east is Rahimyar Khan tehsil, and on the west there isGhotki. Rajanpur District lies north of the city and the border with India is to the south. … Read More >Sadiqabad

Rohri is a town of Sukkur District, Sindh province of Pakistan. Rohri town is the administrative headquarters of Rohri Taluka, a tehsil of Sukkur District with which it forms a metropolitan area. It is located at Latitude of 27°40’60N and Longitude of 68°54’0E, on the east bank of the Indus River. The people of this city speak Punjabi language while other languages are also spoken here. About 97% of the people speak Punjabi and about 3% speak other languages. Urdu is the national language so it is spoke and understood and English is also understood and spoken by the educated people of this city. … Read More >Rohri

Raiwind is a town in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is part of the Nishter Town subdivision of Lahore District. It is located at Latitude of 31°15’16N and Longitude of 74°13’4E with an altitude of 203 metres. It lies about 40 kilometers from Lahore, the capital of the Punjab. The history of the town dates back to the pre-independence days before 1947. During British Rule, Raiwind was part of the tehsil of Lahore, and the town was a junction on the North-Western Railway, where the line from Delhi via Bhatinda joined that from Multan to Lahore. … Read More >Raiwind

Rabwah is a city in province Punjab of Pakistan. It is also known as Chenab Nagar. It is a city in the Chiniot District of Punjab Province. It is located on the bank of Chenab River near the historic city of Chiniot. It is located in the temperate region of Central Punjab, Pakistan approximately halfway between Faisalabad andSargodha. River Chenab surrounds the city on its Eastern and Southern sides. The city has a population of 70,000, of which 97 percent belong to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. The rest 3 percent includes Christians and other Muslims. … Read More >Rabwah