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Fort Abbas is a town in 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 Thar Desert
Thar Desert
The Thar Desert |Punjab]] province. The Cholistan Desert adjoins the Thar desert spreading into Pakistani Punjab province.-Location and description:...

 of Punjab, Pakistan. It is situated North to Sub-District (Tehsil) of Harunabad and town of Faqirwali
Faqirwali
Faqirwali is a town of Bahawalnagar District in the Punjab province of eastern Pakistan. The nearest sub-district to the north is Haroonabad and to the south is Fortabbas....

 and on the border with India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. Fort Abbas is an historic city and was of strategic importance during the Nawab
Nawab
A Nawab or Nawaab is an honorific title given to Muslim rulers of princely states in South Asia. It is the Muslim equivalent of the term "maharaja" that was granted to Hindu rulers....

 of Bahawalpur
Bahawalpur
Bahawalpur , located in the province of Punjab, is the twelfth largest city in Pakistan. The city was once the capital of the former princely state of Bahawalpur. The city was home to various Nawabs and counted as part of the Rajputana states...

's rule. The language of this city is Punjabi. Formerly connected with other parts of the country through road and railway track. One side is connected directly with the Pakistan-Indian border. Modern communication is available by way of internet, telephone and known as Pholra, it was renamed in 1927 by Nawab Sir Sadiq, who named it after his eldest son Muhammad Abbas.

Recently An entertainment FM channel has been launched in Fort Abbas.This is a great source of entertainmebt for the people of fort abbas.A website about fort abbas also woeking on fortabbas.ApnaFort.com is the only web portal of Fort Abbas and District Bahawalnagar.People of this city are no more much backward now.A great awareness has been urged in people of Fort abbas.

Fort Abbas is the largest Tehsil by land area and is one of the five tehisils of the Bahawal Nagar district. It is mobile phone. Recently, there has been a good improvement in the education sector especially for students who want to become doctors or engineers.

The city is surrounded by forests, deserts and agricultural land. The land of Fort Abbas is very fertile, but there is a shortage of water canals. Because of that a lot of fertile land is uninhabited as there is a serious lack of water. Hacra Canal is the main canal which provides most of the water to the area. There is a need to widen the canal to avail the water in the desired capacity. Major crops are wheat, cotton and sugar cane.
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