Narowal

Narowal District,ضلع نارووال is a district in the province of Punjab of Pakistan. Narowal city is the capital of the district. Narowal District is divided into three tehsils: Narowal, Shakargarh and Zafarwal. Before the independence of Pakistan in 1947, Shakargarh town was the headquarters of Shakargarh Tehsil, which was a subdivision of the Gurdaspur District of British India. Under the Radcliffe Award, the tehsil of Shakargarh was transferred to Pakistan and attached to Sialkot District. On July 1, 1991, Narowal and Shakargarh were removed from Sialkot District to form Narowal District.

Boundaries

The district is bounded on the northwest by Sialkot District, on the north by Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, on the southeast by the contested Pathankot tehsil of Gurdaspur district (Republic of India), on the south by Amritsar district (India) and on the southwest by Sheikhupura District.

Demography

The total area of the district is approximately 2,337 square kilometres. Prior to the creation of Zafarwal Tehsil in July 2009, Narowal Tehsil occupied 1,065 square kilometres while the remaining area (1,272 square kilometres) fell in Shakargarh Tehsil. According to the 1998 census of Pakistan, Narowal District's population was 1,256,097, of which only 12.11% were urban.

Notable people

* Chaudhry Irfan Abid, Special Advisor to Chief Minister Punjab and also Chairman Narowal Public Safety Commission, District Narowal.

* Col(R) Javaid Safdar Kahlon, Ex. District Nazim, District Narowal.

* Chaudhry Shams-Ul-Haq Kahlon, District Naib Nazim, District Narowal.

* Riffat Javaid Kahlon, EX. MNA Narowal.

* Chaudhry Khizer Ilyas Virk, Ex. MPA Narowal.

Lieutenant (retd) Karam ud Din Tamgha-i-Khidmat (Military) First Class

* Lieutenant (retd) Karam ud Din, Tamgha-i-Khidmat (Military) First Class.

* Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Urdu poet from the village of Kala Qadir.

* Ahsan Iqbal, MNA Narowal.

* Abrar-ul-Haq, punjabi singer

* Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan - longest serving Parliamentarian in the history of Pakistan.