Chichawatni Tehsil
Chichawatni Tehsil تحصیل چیچہ وطنی | |
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Tehsil | |
Scenic Jungle in Tehsil Chichawatni | |
Country | Pakistan |
Province | Punjab |
District | Sahiwal District |
Capital | Chichawatni |
Towns | 5 |
Union councils | 37 |
Government | |
• Nazim | ch Taufail Jutt |
Time zone | PST (UTC+5) |
• Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC+6) |
Chichawatni (Urdu, Punjabi: تحصیل چیچہ وطنی) is a tehsil of Sahiwal District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The tehsil has an area of 1,602 km2[1] and is headquartered at the city of Chichawatni and is administratively subdivided into 37 Union Councils, three of which form the capital.[2]
The tehsils contains five towns, these are: Chichawatni, Kassowal, Ghaziabad, Iqbal Nagar, Chak:168/9-L, Chak:49/12-L. Rising in the business of cosmetics. http://www.chichawatni.7p.com/rich_text.html
Notable people
- Abdul Latif Khalid Cheema
- Rai Hassan Nawaz - MNA(NA-162)
- Ch Zahid Iqbal Araein - MNA
- Ch Arif Latif - Ex-Nazim
- Begum Sarwat Imtiaz who took oath in 1959 as Lambardar of Village Chak 43/12 L, Chichawatni, District Montgomery (now Sahiwal), was the first ever female Lambardar in West Pakistan. Presently her daughter Begum Arshia Azhar is Lambardar of said village. That was recognized as a milestone for women empowerment in Pakistan and the Muslim world. [3]
References
- ↑ History
- ↑ Tehsils & Unions in the District of Sahiwal - Government of Pakistan Archived February 9, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ (20 March 2016)" CAMP,
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