Citizendia
Your Ad Here

Narowal
نارووال
 General Information
 Country Pakistan
 Province Punjab
 Calling code (0)542
 Time zone PST (UTC+5)
 No. In Political geography and International politics, a country is a Political division of a geographical entity Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and Currently the internationally recognized territory of Pakistan is subdivided into four provinces and two territories The Punjab ( Urdu:) province of A telephone number or phone number is a sequence of numbers used to call from one Telephone line to another in a Telephone network. Pakistan Standard Time (PST is the time zone for Pakistan. It is usually 5 hours ahead of GMT though as of June 1 2008 it is 6 hours ahead due to the use of DST to help decrease UTC+5 is the Timezone for Pakistan Standard Time West Asia Standard Time. of Towns 1
 Government
 No. A town is a type of settlement ranging from a few to several thousand (occasionally hundreds of thousands inhabitants although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan of Union Councils 4

Narowal (Urdu/Punjabi: نارووال) is a city in the north-east of the Punjab province of Pakistan. A Union Council or village council in Pakistan is an elected Local government body consisting of 21 councillors and headed by a Nazim (which is equivalent Urdu ( ur '''{{Nastaliq اردو}}''' trans Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is a Central Indo-Aryan language Urdu is a standardised Punjabi may refer to The Punjabi language of Pakistan and India Punjabi grammar List of Punjabi The Punjab ( Urdu:) province of Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and The city is the capital of Narowal District and tehsil. Narowal District ( Urdu / Punjabi: نارووال) is one of the districts in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. Narowal Tehsil is a subdivision ( Tehsil) of Narowal District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. [1] The city is situated at the bank of Ravi River about 4-5 km from the Indian border. The Ravi River (रवि ਰਾਵੀ راوی is a River in Pakistan and India.

Contents

Etymology

There are several theories as to the origin of the name. The most famous of them quotes that it was named after a Sikh landlord Naro Singh who was the owner of this land before the partition of sub-continent in 1947.

History

During British Rule Narowal was a town of the Raya Tehsil of Sialkot District[2], after independence from Britain in 1947 Narowal became tehsil headquarters - in 1991 the district of Sialkot was bifurcated, Narowal then became the capital of the newly formed Narowal District. For usage see British rule in India British Raj ( rāj, lit "reign" in Hindustani) primarily refers to the British Sialkot is a district of the Punjab province of Pakistan, it is located in the north-east of the province the city of Sialkot is the capital [3]

Administration

The MNA of Narowal is Mr. The National Assembly is the Lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Pakistan. Ahsan Iqbal and MPA is Samina Waseem Butt. A Member of Provincial Assembly or MPA is an elected representative to one the four provincial assemblies of Pakistan, these are The Provincial The city is subdivided into four Union Councils, these are:[1]

Educational institutions

Hospitals and medical centres


References

  1. ^ a b Tehsils & Unions in the District of Narowal
  2. ^ Raya - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 21, p. 273.
  3. ^ Punjab portal
© 2009 citizendia.org; parts available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License, from http://en.wikipedia.org
 Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic