Shorkot Tehsil
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Shorkot Tehsil
تحصیل شورکوٹ | |
|---|---|
 Tehsil Municipal Administration logo | |
| Country |  Pakistan |
| Region |  Punjab |
| District | Jhang |
| Union councils | 29 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Tehsil Municipal Administration |
| • Administrator | Imran Qureshi |
| • Municipal Officer | Khalid Iqbal Malik |
| Population | |
| 548,626 | |
| • Urban | 73,741 |
| • Rural | 474,885 |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+6 (PDT) |
Shorkot (Urdu: تحصیل شورکوٹ) is a tehsil in Jhang District, Punjab, Pakistan. It is subdivided into 29 Union Councils.[1] The city of Shorkot is the headquarters of the tehsil.[2][3]
A Punjabi dialect of Jhangochi is spoken by the majority of the people in the rural areas, and mainstream Punjabi language in the cities of Jhang district.
Union Councils
The following are a list of Union Councils that form Shorkot Tehsil:
- Alipur
- Basti Karam
- Basti Sultan
- Bohwa
- Chak 17/JB
- Chak 19/JB
- Chak 20/JB
- Chak 21/JB
- Chak 25/JB
- Chak 27/JB
- Chak 29/JB
- Chak 30/JB
- Chak 33/JB
- Chak 35/JB
- Chak 39/JB
- Chak 43/JB
- Chak 46/JB
- Chak 48/JB
- Chak 51/JB
- Chak No. 493 Batianwala
- Dhing Shah
- Jalalpur
- Jhangwala
- Karamabad
- Khurrianwala
- Miana Channu
- Shorkot city
- Sialkot
- Toba Rukan Shah
- Waryam
