Khushab District
Khushab ضِلع خُوشاب | |
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District of Punjab | |
![]() Amb Temples | |
![]() Khushab District highlighted within Punjab Province | |
Country | ![]() |
Province | ![]() |
Division | Sargodha Division |
Established | 2 July 1982[1] |
Headquarters | Jauharabad |
Government | |
• Type | District Administration |
• Deputy Commissioner | Ms. Sarosh Fatima Sherazi |
• District Police Officer | Touqeer Muhammad Naeem |
• District Health Officer | Dr Rao Gulzar Yousaf |
Area [2] | |
• Total | 6,511 km2 (2,514 sq mi) |
Population (2023)[3] | |
• Total | 1,501,089 |
• Density | 230/km2 (600/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
Number of Tehsils | 4 |
Main language | Punjabi |
Website | khushab |
Khushab District (Punjabi ضِلع خُوشاب), is a district in the province of Punjab, Pakistan, with its administrative capital in Jauharabad. The district is named after the historical city of Khushab located within its boundaries. According to the 1998 census, the population was 905,711, with 24.76% living in urban areas.
The district consists of four tehsils: Khushab, Noorpur Thal, Quaidabad and Naushera.[4] Khushab is home to the Heavy Water and Natural Uranium Research Reactor,[5] part of Pakistan's Special Weapons Program.[6] District Khushab shares boundaries with the districts of Sargodha, Jhelum, Chakwal, Mianwali, Bhakkar and Jhang.
Geography
Khushab is situated between the cities of Sargodha and Mianwali, near the river Jhelum. The district capital is Jauharabad (founded 1953, pop. 39,477).
Khushab consists of agricultural lowland plains, lakes, and hills. Parts of the Thal desert touch the district, which has a breadth of over 70 miles (110 km) and is situated between the Indus and Jhelum rivers.
There are three lakes (Ochali, Khabbaki, and Jahlar) in the district. Kanhatti Garden is the largest forest in Khushab district, near Khabbaki village in the Soon Valley. Khabikki Lake is a salt-water lake in the southern Salt Range. The lake is one kilometre wide and two kilometres long. Khabikki is also the name of a neighbouring village. Sakesar is the highest mountain in the Salt Range,[7] and is the site of the ancient Amb Temples. Sakesar’s summit is 1,522 m (4,946 ft) high and is situated in Khushab District.
Demographics
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1951 | 268,118 | — |
1961 | 360,395 | +3.00% |
1972 | 543,314 | +3.80% |
1981 | 641,366 | +1.86% |
1998 | 905,711 | +2.05% |
2017 | 1,280,372 | +1.84% |
2023 | 1,501,089 | +2.69% |
Sources:[8] |
At the 2017 census, Khushab district had 209,466 households and a population of 1,280,372. Khushab had a sex ratio of 1,008 females per 1,000 males and a literacy rate of 59.75% - 75.31% for males and 44.64% for females. 352,960 inhabitants (27.57%) lived in urban areas. 307,619 (24.03%) were under 10 years of age.[9] In 2023, the district had 248,449 households and a population of 1,501,089.[3]
Religion in Khushab district (2023)[10] | ||||
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Religion | Percent | |||
Islam | 98.85% | |||
Christianity | 1% | |||
Other | 0.15% |
Religion | 1941[11]: 42 | 2017[9] | 2023[10] | |||
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Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | |
Islam ![]() | 211,565 | 90.08% | 1,267,776 | 99.02% | 1,483,583 | 98.85% |
Hinduism ![]() | 17,475 | 7.44% | 12 | 0% | 55 | 0% |
Sikhism ![]() | 5,809 | 2.47% | — | — | 14 | 0% |
Christianity ![]() | 8 | 0% | 10,511 | 0.82% | 15,011 | 1.00% |
Ahmadi | — | — | 2,058 | 0.16% | 2,123 | 0.14% |
Others [d] | 2 | 0% | 15 | 0% | 49 | 0% |
Total Population | 234,859 | 100% | 1,280,372 | 100% | 1,500,835 | 100% |
According to the 1998 census, the primary language of the district is Punjabi, spoken by 97.7% of the population, with Urdu being spoken by 1.5%.[12]: 22
At the 2023 census, 92.38% of the population spoke Punjabi, 2.05% Pashto, 2.39% Saraiki and 1.43% Urdu as their first language.[14] The dialect of Punjabi spoken here is Shahpuri.
Education
According to Pakistan District Education Ranking, a report released by Alif Ailaan, Khushab is ranked 42 nationally with an education score of 65.42 and learning score of 65.82.
The readiness score of Khushab is 62.33. The infrastructure score of the district is 88.11, which indicates that the schools in Khushab have adequate facilities
The issues reported in TaleemDo! app says that there are some areas where there are no government schools for girls. Another major issue reported was that teachers don't do their jobs properly and don't do justice to their profession.[citation needed]
Administrative divisions
Khushab got the status of district in 1982. At the start, the district was divided into two tehsils, Khushab, Noorpur Thal. Later on Quaidabad was given the status of Tehsil in March 2007[15] and Naushera (Wadi e Soon) became 4th Tehsil of District Khushab in March 2013. In the local bodies delimitation of 2000 (before the creation of the Tehsil Quaidabad and Naushehra), it contained a total of fifty-one Union Councils.[16] In the 2015 delimitation of District Khushab, 48 rural union councils and 7 urban Municipal Committees were created by the election Commission of Pakistan.[17]
Khushab Tehsil
In 2000, Tehsil Khushab was subdivided into 32 Union councils; but in 2015, 10 urban Union councils (Khushab 5, Jauharabad 2, Hadali 2 and Mitha Tiwana 1) transferred to Municipal Committees whereas six Union councils have become the part of Tehsil Naushehra. Now Tehsil Khushab has 18 Union councils and 5 Municipal Committees:[17]
Union Councils
| Union Councils | Municipal Committee / Corporation
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Noorpur Thal Tehsil
Noorpur Thal is subdivided into 12 Union Councils and 1 Municipal Committee.[16]
Union Councils
| Union Councils | Municipal Committee
|
Quaidabad Tehsil
Quaidabad is subdivided into 10 Union Councils and 2 Municipal Committees.[15]
Union Councils
| Municipal Committee
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Naushera Tehsil
Naushera (Vadi e Soon) is subdivided into 6 Union Councils and 1 Municipal Committee.[17]
Notable people
- Malik Fateh Khan Tiwana, Sardar of Mitha Tiwana State and Executioner of Son of Maharaja Ranjeet Singh
- Malik Khuda Buksh Tiwana, former Federal Minister of Pakistan
- Malik Ghulam Muhammad Tiwana,
political leader from Hassanpur Tiwana, Khushab District of Punjab, Pakistan
Pakistani politician who was a Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 till January 2023.
- Malik Amjad Zubair Tiwana,
Current Chairman FBR from Mitha Tiwana
- Malik Shakir Bashir Awan, Politician, Lawyer, Social Activist
- Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi, Urdu poet, fiction writer, and journalist
- Wasif Ali Wasif, teacher, writer, poet, and Sufi
- Abdulqadir Hassan, writer and journalist
- Idris Azad, philosopher, poet, fiction writer, and journalist
- Sardar Bahadur Sir Sobha Singh, contractor and real estate developer, who owned around half of Lutyens' Delhi
- Ujjal Singh, freedom fighter, politician, Finance Minister of Punjab, Governor of Punjab and Tamil Nadu
- Khushwant Singh, Indian novelist, lawyer, politician, and journalist
- Sohail Warraich, writer and journalist
- Malik Naeem Khan Awan, former Federal Minister of Pakistan
- Sumaira Malik, former Federal Minister of Pakistan & Granddaughter of Nawab of Kalabagh
- Feroz Khan Noon, former Prime Minister of Pakistan.
- Sultan Khan, chess player
Notes
- ^ 1941 figures are for Khushab tehsil of the former Shahpur District, which roughly corresponds to present-day Khushab district
- ^ Historic district borders may not be an exact match in the present-day due to various bifurcations to district borders — which since created new districts — throughout the historic Punjab Province region during the post-independence era that have taken into account population increases.
- ^ 1941 census: Including Ad-Dharmis
- ^ Including Jainism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, or not stated
References
- ^ "District Courts Khushab".
- ^ "Khushab – Punjab Portal". Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
- ^ a b "TABLE 1 : HOUSEHOLDS, POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE" (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. 2023.
- ^ "Tehsil Codes" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 June 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
- ^ Special Weapons Program of Pakistan (Federation of American Scientists)
- ^ South Asia arms race - is it paranoia? (BBC News).
- ^ Sumra, Anwer Hussain (30 October 2013). "Sakesar a tourist spot". The Express Tribune. Pakistan. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
- ^ "Population by administrative units 1951-1998" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
- ^ a b "District Wise Results / Tables (Census - 2017)". www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
- ^ a b "District Wise Results / Tables (Census - 2023)" (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
- ^ "CENSUS OF INDIA, 1941 VOLUME VI PUNJAB PROVINCE". Retrieved 21 July 2022.
- ^ 1998 District Census report of Khushab. Census publication. Vol. 64. Islamabad: Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. 2000.
- ^ "District Wise Results / Tables (Census - 2023)" (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
- ^ "Pakistan Census 2023" (PDF).
- ^ a b "Tehsil status". Dawn (newspaper). 24 March 2007. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Tehsils & Unions in the District of Khushab". National Reconstruction Bureau - Government of Pakistan website. Archived from the original on 24 January 2008. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
- ^ a b c "Municipal Committees of the Punjab" (PDF). Election Commission of Pakistan website. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
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