Toba Tek Singh

Toba Tek Singh is a city and tehsil of Toba Tek Singh District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located at 30°58'0N 72°29'0E.

History

During British rule Toba Tek Singh was a tehsil of Lyallpur District, the population of the town in 1998 is 2549000
Toba Tek Singh has several institutions of higher education including:
Accountancy Institutes

• CCAPS the new COMSAT UNI,GOvt. College of commerace,Jinnah Public School,agriculture uni sub campus

Famous People

• Doctor Farooq Ahmad Gill - first international neurosurgeon from Pakistan.
• M. Hamzah, Ex-MNA, great statesman, freedom fighter.
• Choudhry Asad ur Rehman ex Minister and MNA.
• Mian Muhammad Aslam Advocate ex Vice President Of Lahore High Court Bar Association
• Choudry Muhammad Ashfaq, ex MNA and ex District Nazim.
• Choudry Khalid Rashid Grewal ex Vice President of Lahore International Society.
• Choudry Abdul Sattar is currently District Nazim of Toba Tek Singh and is also ex MNA.
• Athar Bashir Awami.Chairman Tameer-e-Millat Party Pakistan. He is also a civil right activist for local farmers and students of Pakistan.
• Choudhry Muhammad Jawwad Saif, First nanotechnologist from Toba Tek Singh district in the field of chemistry.
• Choudhary Yasir Idrees. Internationally recognized Material Scientist from Toba Tek Singh.
• Imran Bashir. President Tameer-e-Millat Party Pakistan.

Language

Punjabi is the most spoken language.

Weather

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Toba Tek Singh weather http://www.foreca.com/Pakistan/Toba_Tek_Singh

In popular culture

Sadat Hasan Manto, an Urdu Novelist wrote a short story entitled "Toba Tek Singh" which is a satire on Partition; in the story, an inmate in an asylum frets over the question of whether his home town Toba Tek Singh is now in India or Pakistan. It was adapted into a short movie of the same name directed by Afia Nathaniel in 2005.