Safdarabad Tehsil

Safdarabad Tehsil
Tehsil
Safdarabad Canal at the entrance of Safdarabad City
Country	Pakistan
Region	Punjab
District	Sheikhupura District
Capital	Safdarabad
Towns	1
Government
• Administrator/Assistant Commissioner	Ms. Zahra Dastgir
Time zone	PST (UTC+5)
• Summer (DST)	PDT (UTC+6)

Safdarabad (Urdu: تحصِيل صفدرآباد‎), is an administrative subdivision (Tehsil) of Sheikhupura District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The city of Safdar Abad is the headquarters of the tehsil, until 2005 it was a tehsil of Sheikhupura District, but in that year Sheikhpura was bifurcated and the district of Nankana Sahib was created. - with Safdarabad as one of its tehsils. Now at present (since 01-12-2008), once again Safdarabad has been rejoined with Sheikhupura as a Tehsil. The city of Safdarabad lies 95 km from Lahore the provincial capital of Punjab. The area has a population of more than 19,000 the majority of whom are Muslims.

Agriculture is one of the main sources of employment, the town has been a popular grain market for last 75 years as the town is located in a highly fertile area. The Rakh Branch canal passes near one side of the Safdarabad city to Sangla Hill and is an irrigation source. On the other hand, a large variety of shoes is prepared here and transported to different cities.

There are many educational institutes in city Safdarabad.

The central railway station is the main railway station of Safdarabad built during the British region around the nineteenth century. The station is used to take people to all parts of Pakistan from Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Quetta, Peshawar and many more cities and towns of Pakistan by Rail.

A large amount of cargo is daily exported and imported into Safdarabad with many deliveries a day from all parts of the Punjab Province.