Safdarabad Tehsil
Safdarabad Tehsil
تحصِيل صفدرآباد | |
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Safdarabad Canal at the entrance of Safdarabad City | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Region | Punjab |
| District | Sheikhpura |
| Capital | Safdarabad |
| Towns | 1 |
| Government | |
| • Administrator/Assistant Commissioner | Ms. Laraib Aslam, PAS |
| Population (2017) | |
| 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. 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.