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'Sillanwali'

Sillanwali is a major town of Sargodha district, situated in the central Punjab province of Pakistan. Geographically it is located at 31°49'45N 72°32'22E, and physically located in the south of Sargodha city, bordering by Chaniot district in the east and Jhang district in the south. Sillanwali came into being in 1901 while broad gauge railway line was being laid from Hundaywali (Shaheen Abad) to Shoorkot during the rule of British Empire .it was planned to be an agricultural business hub called “Mandy” in the local language .Railway station was established in 1905, Police Station in 1907 and grain market in 1909. Being the business center of the area, several cotton factories were operative at the time of independence of Pakistan.

Population
Prior the independence of Pakistan, the population of Sillanwali was not more than 10,000 but after the partition thousands of Muslims were migrated, mostly from district Karnal east Punjab of India and settled here. Like wise, Hindus migrated to India and Muslims took the possession of the Hindu’s property and now the current population is more than 80,000, according to 1998 census.

Education
The land of Sillanwali is very much fertile so far as the education sector is concerned .Sillanwali has produced Doctors, Engineers, Scientist, Bureaucrats, professors and bankers who have been adding their valuable contribution in the development of the countery.However some of them are working abroad e.g USA, Canada, europ and middle east and making the name of country.

Sillanwali has several high schools and degree colleges for both male and female. Recently, some private institutions like DAR-E-ARQAM and Superior Science College and Minhaj Al-Quran have been providing quality education for those people who want to get their children educated, in English medium institutions.

Religious Institutions,
Entire population of Sillanwali is very much religious and fundamentlist Muslims and cosequently several Islamic madaris are progressively serving Quranic education in the city as in suberbs. Mudarsa Husainia Hanfia is the oldest and first Quranic institution of the area that was founded by hounerable Muslim Deobandi scholar Hakeem Shareefudeen Rehmatullah allaih in 1948, immediately after the Muslim population migrated from India. Jamia Islmia was established in 1983 by Qari Islamudeen,the son in law of late scholar Hakeem Shareefudeen Rehmatullah allaih and at present this islamic institution is being operated progressively by the brilliant leading Islamic scholar Qari Mushtaq Ahmad Farooqi and he is son in law of Qari Islamudeen Rehmatullah allaih. Darul Aloom Khatam-e- Nubawat is playing vital role to provide Anglo- vernacular education that is the real requirement of Muslim uma. Very common factor in thease all Deobandi madaras is that all these madaras are the isotopic expansion of Mudarsa Husainia Hanfia Sillanwali. The students from all over the Pakistan are getting religious education in these mudaris. There are more than 100 Masjids in Sillanwali and fifteen of them are Jamia Masjids but Masjid-e-Auqaf, near railway station, Madni Masjid and Rehmania Masjid of Channpura are the oldest ones.

Political Scenario
Prior the independence, the entire area was pro Muslim League and Muslim was ruling local government and possesses the key of town hall Sillanwali. After independence Basic Democy was implemented in the country and different tribes have captured the chair of Town committee. Famous political personalities remained very active in the progress of the developing city e.g Malik Abdulrehman Dholka, Sheikh Mohammad Jmeel, Syed Khursheed Akbar Rizvi, Sheikh Babar; Sheikh Abdul Jabbar etc are remains icon of political activities of the city. Ch. Hafeezullah Chema and Sardar Sagheer Ahmad were the first elected members of National Assembly and Provential Assembly and both were PPP candidates and both personalities remains ministers i.e Minister of Railways and Minister of Housing & Planning and completed their tenure.. Ch. Anwar Ali Cheema has been elected member of Nation Assembly for 6 consecutives times, being the candidate of Pakistan Muslim League. Javaid Husnain Shah (PMLN) is now the MNA of the area. As a result of local understanding, people of Sillanwali elected Rana Munawar Ghous, PPPP, as the Member of Provincial Assembly. Muhammad Ashraf Kalyar and Ch Farrukh Javed Ghumman, Ex MPAs, are the political figures of the area. The people of Sillanwali are clamoring for the installation of Sui gas connections to Sillanwali, but still their demand is immaterialized. In recent campaign for the restoration of Judiciary in Pakistan, the people of Sillanwali actively participated in the long march.

Social scenario

The people of Sillanwali are peace loving and there is no sectarian or ethnic division in masses. Shaoor Development Organization, Civil Society Organization, is providing social services to people of Sillanwali and contiguity under the patronage of Engineer Nazir Malik, who is also the Chairman of International Commission for Human Rights district Sargodha as well as the Chairman National Peace Committee for Interfaith district Sargodha. He has been striving hard to propagate the Toheed & Sunnah through his relgious colomns in lacal and national news paper and periodics.

Economic Scenario
The majority of population is mediocre. As the Sillanwali is hub of commercial bargains for many villages, its economy is flourishing day by day. Main bazaar, Bazar # 2 saeed Bazar, Rail Bazar and Zia Shaheed road are the center of commercial activities.

Main Industry /Specialty

Sillanwali is famous for wood works and wooden handi crafts. A large number of skilled forces is employed by this small industry and furnished world class handicrafts are being exported to European Union, foreast and Middle East countries and getting annual turnover of more than 3.6 billion rupee and contributing well to earn foreign exchange for the country. People from thorough out Pakistan come to Sillanwali and admires the skill of workers.

Sports
Cricket is the favorite game of the people of Sillanwali. Prince Cricket Club, Shahzad Cricket Club, and City Cricket club are the major cricket clubs of Sillanwali. Football is also played in Sillanwali.