Abdul Hakeem (city)
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Khanewal District
Khanewal is District of Punjab province in Pakistan. It most widely known for being the host city to the second largest Train Station in Pakistan...
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. It lies 17 kilometres from Tulamba
Tulamba
Tulamba or Tulambah is a small city in Punjab, Pakistan. A native of Tulamba is referred to as a Tulmabvi. It's situated on the eastern edge of the Ravi River, between the cities of Abdul Hakeem and Mian Channu. Earlier it belonged to the district of Multan, but in 1985 Tulamba was included in the...
.
Casts
Major casts are MianaMiana
Miana is a community in Pakistan. It is derived from Mian, which is a family name and a title of nobility and used by Muslims in the Punjab region of South Asia.-History and origin:...
, Araain,Gujjar,Rajput Ganpal,Shaikh, Sial, Bhatti, Pahod,Qureshi etc
Miana and descendents of Peer Mubarak Shah Tribes have vital role in Islamicism .
Miana are descendents of Famous Local Saint Baba Abdul Hakeem and Mai safoora (r.a) (Urdu
Urdu
Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
:حضرت مائی صفورہ).
Local languages
Local languages are PunjabiPunjabi 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...
(Jhangwi) , Saraiki, etc. Now, urdu
Urdu
Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
speaking family number is also increasing.
Education
F.G. Public School, The Government High School, Government Digree College and Government College for Girls are the main educational centres for the people of Abdul Hakim.Famous poetry collection Kulliyat
Kulliyat
Kulliyat is a collection of the poetry of any one poet.Kulliyat is one of the principal collection forms of Urdu poetry. Literally a kullyat means complete collection of poems, but often applied to any collection containing poems of various kinds....
-e-saleh muhammad safoori
Saleh Muhammad Safoori
Saleh muhammad safoori was a punjabi sufi poet of southern punjab who was the writer of a poetic collection in punjabi which is now known to people as Kulliyat-e-saleh muhammad safoori. In the collection he has described the famous mythical story of southern punjab , Sasi puno in poetic form...
was also published from Abdul Hakeem. The writer of poetry collection, Saleh muhammad safoori
Saleh Muhammad Safoori
Saleh muhammad safoori was a punjabi sufi poet of southern punjab who was the writer of a poetic collection in punjabi which is now known to people as Kulliyat-e-saleh muhammad safoori. In the collection he has described the famous mythical story of southern punjab , Sasi puno in poetic form...
was the son of Mai safoora.
Occupation/Trade
Major trade is agriculture, Cotton is the cash crop of region. There are a few Cotton Ginning Factories in Abdul Hakim, which facilitate local farmers. The oldest is Abdullah Industries.Transport
Abdul Hakeem is linked by road to Mian ChannuMian Channu
Mian Channu is a city in Punjab province, Pakistan .In the year 1919, it was declared as a notified area Committee and in 1938 as a Town Committee. Its limits were last extended in the year 1950. Since then no extension has been made and the development in the Town from 1947 to 1961 remained slow...
, Multan
Multan
Multan , is a city in the Punjab Province of Pakistan and capital of Multan District. It is located in the southern part of the province on the east bank of the Chenab River, more or less in the geographic centre of the country and about from Islamabad, from Lahore and from Karachi...
, Faisalabad
Faisalabad
Faisalabad , formerly known as Lyallpur, is the third largest metropolis in Pakistan, the second largest in the province of Punjab after Lahore, and a major industrial center in the heart of Pakistan. Before the foundation of the city in 1880, the area was very thinly populated. The population has...
, Kaccha Khooh, and Makhdoom Pur. An interchange is being constructed which will connect traffic between Peshawar
Peshawar
Peshawar is the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative center and central economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan....
, Islamabad
Islamabad
Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. Located within the Islamabad Capital Territory , the population of the city has grown from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.7 million in 2011...
, Lahore
Lahore
Lahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. With a rich and fabulous history dating back to over a thousand years ago, Lahore is no doubt Pakistan's cultural capital. One of the most densely populated cities in the world, Lahore remains a...
and Faisalabad.
Religion
99% habitants are Muslims. Madrassas of Brailvi and DeobandiDeobandi
Deobandi is a movement of Sunni Islam. The movement began at Darul Uloom Deoband in Deoband, India, where its foundation was laid on 30 May 1866.-History:...
school of thought, are operating in the city.
Population
According to the Population-statistics.com, there are 52999 habitants.The population is increasing day by day due to increasing number of available facilities.