Narowal is a city in the northeast of 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...

. The city is the capital of Narowal District

Narowal District

Narowal District is a district in the province of Punjab of Pakistan. Narowal city is the capital of the district. Narowal District is divided into three tehsils: Narowal, Shakargarh and Zafarwal. Before the independence of Pakistan in 1947, Shakargarh town was the headquarters of Shakargarh...

 and tehsil

Narowal Tehsil

Narowal Tehsil is a subdivision of Narowal District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is administratively subdivided into 39 Union Councils, four of which form the tehsil capital Narowal.-External links:* *...

. It is situated on the banks of Ravi River

Ravi River

The Ravi is a trans-boundary river flowing through Northwestern India and eastern Pakistan. It is one of the six rivers of the Indus System in Punjab region ....

 about 4–5 km from the Indian border.

Etymology

There are several theories as to the origin of the name. The most famous of them is that it was named after a Sikh landlord, Naro Singh, who was the owner of the land before the partition of the sub-continent in 1947. The city is situated on the banks of River Ravi, about 4-5 Km from Indian Border and about 50 km away from the Indian part of Kashmir. It is famous for the production of rice and cereals and for the local dish Dahi Barray.

History

About 500 years ago in the era of Sikandar Lodhi in the year 1488, Hindus belonging to the Aror tribe of District Multan embraced Islam in the hands of Habibullah Shah, a saint of the area. Nar Singh of the said tribe met Shah Shamash Tabraiz as per direction of the said saint. Nar Singh wanted to build a new city and requested Shah Shamash Tabraiz to pray for the completion of his desire. Shah Shamash Tabraiz sent his own son along with said Nar Singh towards Narowal. The tribe of said Nar Singh stationed permanently in the vicinity of Narowal. Later on the city gradually came to be known as Narowal. During British rule

British Raj

British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...

, Narowal was a town of the Raya Tehsil of Sialkot District

Sialkot District

Sialkot District or the District of Sialkot , is one of the districts of the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located in the north-east of the province...

; after independence from Britain in 1947 Narowal became tehsil headquarters. In 1991 the district of Sialkot was bifurcated, and Narowal became the capital of the newly formed Narowal District.

This is the place where Jagat Guru Nanak Ji died on 23rd Assu, Samvat 1596 (22 September 1529 AD). It is also called Dera Nanak Baba. Dera Sahib railway station, on Lahore-Narowal section, serves this place. The Shrine is located by the River Ravi within a distance of nine kilometers from the railway station.
The present building was built at a cost of Rs 1,35,600, donated by Sardar Popindar Singh, the Maharaja of Patiala. It was repaired by the Government of Pakistan in 1995, incurring expenditure in lakhs of rupees. It is a spacious and beautiful building. Its location beside a forest and the River Ravi makes its care difficult.

Notable residents

• Dr. Tahir Ali Javed, Unification Bloc Leader, Ex Health Minister and Special Education Minister (Punjab)
• Dr. Naimat Ali Javed, Ex District Nazim Narowal, Heavy Water Nuclear Scientist, N.A. Javed, Director of Directorate of Quality Assurance (DQA).
  Chagai-I
  The Chagai-I was a codename referring to the five underground nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan at 15:15hrs in 28th May of 1998. It was named Chagai-I, as the tests were conducted in the Chagai District...
  
  
• Ahsan Iqbal
  Ahsan Iqbal
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   - Politician - PML(N) - Member of National Assembly
• Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan
  Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan
  Ch.Muhammad Sarwar Khan was a renowned and longest serving Parliamentarian in the history of Pakistan. He served in Provincial Assembly of the Punjab and National Assembly of Pakistan from 1951 to 1999. The first direct elections held in Pakistan after independence were for the Provincial...
  
  , Longest serving parliamentarian from 1951 to 1999.
• Muhammad Sarwar Khan Kakar - Politician
• Faiz Ahmad Faiz Urdu poet and journalist
• S.M. Zafar
  S.M. Zafar
  S.M. Zafar, is a Pakistani human rights activist, noted lawyer , politician, and present Senator, PML-Q.-Career:Zafar began his career as a lawyer in the 1950s...
  
   Senior Advocate Supreme Court
• Abrar-ul-Haq
  Abrar-ul-Haq
  Abrar-ul-Haq is a Pakistani pop, bhangra and folk singer. On his first album "Billo De Ghar" his name appears as simply "Abrar". Before becoming a singer, he was a geography teacher at the Aitchison College in Lahore.- Life :Abrar has kept the year of his birth a secret, so as to not reveal his age...
  
   - Pakistani Pop, Bhangra and Folk legend singer

Educational institutions

Government institutions

• Narowal Information Technology University Narowal (A Project of Col.(R) Javaid Safdar Kahlon Ex. District Nazim District Narowal)
• Government High School Narowal
• Government Muslim High School Narowal
• Government College of Commerce Narowal
• Government Islamia Degree College (for Boys) Narowal
• Government Muslim Girls College Narowal
• Government College for Elementary Teachers Narowal
• Vocational Training Institute, Narowal
• Technical Institute Narowal
• Government Muslim Girls High School Narowal

Private institutions

• Ahmad Model School Narowal
• Narowal Public School Narowal
• Massali cadet science secendary school narowal
• Jandha public school narowal
• Haroon public school narowal
• asfand kalian da school narowal
• Minhaj Ul Quran Model School & Tahfiz Ul Quran Institute Narowal
• St. John's High School Narowal
• The Punjab Public School Narowal
• Jamal-u-Din Trust High School Narowal
• Shahid City Public School Narowal
• Sir Syed Joiner Model School Narowal
• The Pakistan Foundation School Narowal
• FK Middle School Sankhatra
• The Educators Narowal Campus
• Punjab group of college Narowal

Private commerce colleges

• Sialkot College of Commerce
• Standard College of Commerce
• Pakistan College of Commerce
• National College of Commerce
• Lahore College of Commerce
• Leaders College of Commerce
• Narowal College of Commerce
• shaheryar college of commerce
• ali quaid e azam college of commerce
• kalay khan da college of commerce

Narowal Police

• Police strength: 200129
• Police-to-population ratio: 1:16
• Police stations: 91
• Highway patrolling posts: 101

Hospitals and medical centres

• Sughra Shafi Medical Complex
  Sughra Shafi Medical Complex
  The first project of Sahara For Life Trust; Sughra Shafi Medical Complex; a state-of-the-art 200-bed general hospital situated 120 km from Lahore is catering for the needs of 40 million population of the catchment area. The civil work, procurement of equipment, hiring of qualified professional...
  
  - Established by Sahara for Life Trust
• District Headquarter Hospital
• Tehsil Headquarter Hospital
• sarwar hospital narowal
• shukar din hospital narowal
• ali hospital narowal
• almustafa hospital narowal
• amina hospital narowal
• alhayat hospital narowal
• Dr. Shafiq Medical Complex, Chowk Zafarwal Bypass, Narowal