Safdarabad Tehsil
تحصِيل صفدرآباد | |
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Country | Pakistan |
Region | Punjab |
District | Sheikhpura |
Capital | Safdarabad |
Towns | 1 |
Government | |
• Administrator/Assistant Commissioner | Ms. Laraib Aslam, PAS |
Population | |
• Tehsil | 272,500 |
• Urban | 54,085 |
• Rural | 218,415 |
Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
Safdarabad (Urdu: تحصِيل صفدرآباد), is an administrative subdivision (Tehsil) of Sheikhupura District in the Punjab province of Pakistan.[2] The city of Safdar Abad is the headquarters of the tehsil, until 2005 it was a tehsil of Sheikhupura District, but in that year Sheikhpura was bifurcated and the district of Nankana Sahib was created. - with Safdarabad as one of its tehsils. Now at present (since 01-12-2012), once again Safdarabad has been rejoined with Sheikhupura as a Tehsil. The city of Safdarabad lies 95 km from Lahore the provincial capital of Punjab. The tehsil has a population of more than 270,000 the majority of whom are Muslims.[3]