Mehrabpur
Mehrabpur (Urdu: محراب پور), (Sindhi:محرابپور), is a city in the Naushahro Firoz District in Sindh province of Pakistan. The city is administratively subdivided into 8 Union Councils. It has a busy railway station on the main railway line between Karachi and Lahore. It is a junction station with a disused branch line to Naushahro Feroze.
Mehrabpur | |
|---|---|
City | |
| Mehrabpur Sindh Pakistan | |
  Mehrabpur  Mehrabpur | |
| Coordinates: 27.099444°N 68.420833°E | |
| Country |  Pakistan |
| Province | Sindh |
| Elevation | 28 m (92 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 247,280 |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
| Calling code | 0242 |
Union Councils
Mehrabpur Taluka is administratively further divided into the following 8 Union Councils:
- UC Mehrabpur 1
- UC Mehrabpur 2
- UC Halani
- UC Behlani
- UC Kotri.M.Kabir
- UC Lakha road
- UC Jaindo Rajper
- UC Saeed Pur
Villages
There are more than a dozen villages in Taluka Mehrabpur. Some of them are mentioned below.
- Village Molvi Fateh Mohammad Bandesha (Jaat) 27.05405703527661°N 68.4146580466361°E
- Village Sohrab Khan Unar {{|27|5|39.4|N|68|21|35.3|E|}}
- Pir Qaim Ali Shah
- Suhrab Soomrah
- Mukhtiarabad
- Allahdad Samtio
- Sialabad
- MalakChodaagi
- BaluKhara
- Thari
- Village Havaldar Chiraghdin
- Bhatti Village
- Village Allah dad Samtio
- Village sayed Khuda bux shah
- Village Haji Keerio
- Village Majeed Keerio
- village Noor Muhammad haji rajper.
Train crash
On 19 December 2007, at 2:30 am an overcrowded express train traveling from Karachi to Lahore derailed 2 km (1.2 mi) south of Mehrabpur killing over 49 people and injuring two hundreds more. The derailment seems to have been caused by defective rails.[1]
See also
- Sialabad
- Rajkumar Hirani
- The Educators
References
- Pakistan train crash kills dozens BBC News Online, retrieved December 19, 2007.
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Aziz Memon