Chichawatni Tehsil
| Chichawatni Tehsil تحصیل چیچہ وطنی | |
|---|---|
| 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
- 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
View of a Jungle in distt. Sahiwal
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, March 24, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.