Bahawalnagar is the capital city of Bahawalnagar District

Bahawalnagar District

Bahawalnagar District is a district of Punjab province in Pakistan. The district is situated on the border, before the independence of Pakistan, Bahawal Nagar was a part of Bahawalpur state governed by the Nawab of Bahawalpur...

 in the Punjab

Punjab (Pakistan)

Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...

 province of Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. As well as being district capital it also the administrative headquarters of the tehsil

Bahawalnagar Tehsil

Bahawalnagar Tehsil is an administrative subdivision of Bahawalnagar District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The city of Bahawalnagar is the headquarters of the tehsil which is administratively subdivided into 31 Union Councils....

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Administration

Bahawalnagar is the administrative centre of Bahawalnagar District one of the five tehsils or subdivisions of the District, the tehsil is subdivided into 31 Union Councils

Union Councils of Pakistan

A sherwan or village council in Pakistan is an elected local government body consisting of 21 councillors, and headed by a nazim and a naib nazim...

. The Bahawal Nagar is the district headquarter of tehsils Haroonabad, Chistian, Fortabbass and Minchanabad. t is one of the largest district of Panjab with respect to its area. The largest union council of Bahawal Nagar is U.C 6. As of 2011,asim iqbal is serving Bahawal Nagar as D.C.O.

Languages

Punjabi

Punjabi language

Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by inhabitants of the historical Punjab region . For Sikhs, the Punjabi language stands as the official language in which all ceremonies take place. In Pakistan, Punjabi is the most widely spoken language...

 is the main language, Urdu (the national language) and Siraiki are both widely spoken.

Renowned Personalities

Bahawalnagar is blessed with talents. There are Poets, Writers, Saints, Scholers and every kind of professionals. Syed Wali Shah is the famous Sufi here. His tomb is situated in a town named Peer Shah, writers like Syed Noor Alam, Aijaz Saqib, Saleem Shehzad, Amir Sohail & Anwaar Gilani belongs to this City.