Not to be confused with Shahkot, India
Shahkot is a town and tehsil in the Nankana Sahib District

Nankana Sahib District

Nankana Sahib is a district in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Nankana Sahib is the principal town of the district. The district of Nankana Sahib is located about 75 kilometres west of Lahore and about 55 kilometres east of Faisalabad.-Administration:The area around Nankana Sahib was formerly a...

 of Pakistan

Pakistan

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. The town has a population of about 200,000.

Shahkot is on the Lahore

Lahore

Lahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. With a rich and fabulous history dating back to over a thousand years ago, Lahore is no doubt Pakistan's cultural capital. One of the most densely populated cities in the world, Lahore remains a...

-Faisalabad

Faisalabad

Faisalabad , formerly known as Lyallpur, is the third largest metropolis in Pakistan, the second largest in the province of Punjab after Lahore, and a major industrial center in the heart of Pakistan. Before the foundation of the city in 1880, the area was very thinly populated. The population has...

 highway

Highway

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 which brings much traffic to the area. The town is connected by road to Sangla Hill

Sangla Hill

Sangla Hill is a tehsil located in Nankana Sahib District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan.- Introduction :Sangla hill is a tehsil under district Nankana Sahib...

, Chak Jhumra

Chak Jhumra

Chak Jhumra is a town and tehsil near the city of Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan. It is a sub-division of Faisalabad District and has a Tehsil municipal administration . Chak Jhumra Town consists of 15 union councils.-About Chak Jhumra:...

, Salarwala

Salarwala

Salarwala , is located in Faisalabad District, Punjab, Pakistan. Latitude 33.66; Longitude 73.28. It is a town situated on the Faisalabad to Lahore railway section. It is one of the oldest railway stations of pre-partition days. Many people have used it as a starting point for a railway journey...

, Jaranwala

Jaranwala

Jaranwala is a city in the Faisalabad District of Punjab, Pakistan. It is located at 31°20'0N 73°26'0E with an altitude of 184 meters .It is 35KM south east from Faisalabad and 110 km from Lahore...

, Safdarabad

Safdarabad

Safdarabad is an administrative subdivision 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...

 and the district capital Nankana Sahib

Nankana Sahib

Nankana Sahib , earlier known as Rai-Bhoi-Di-Talwandi, is a city in the Pakistani province of Punjab. It is named after the first Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Nanak Dev, the central figure in Sikhism who was born here, so it is a city of high historic and religious value and is a popular pilgrimage site...

. The town is situated in center of Faisalabad and sheikhupura. Many worshippers come to the tomb of shrine of Syed Abu-Al-Khair Baba Nolukh Hazari on March 23–25 of every year And peoples of district enjoy this fair so much as wathcing Circus,Cenams,Theators etc. Shahkot is mostly famous to its Hill site and education .

• The Sarpanch is the focal point of contact between government officers and the village community. It is an elected position. Recently, there have been proposals to give Sarpanches small judicial powers under Panchayati Raj.

Shahkot city have 22 wards.And the total population of this city area is rournd about 100,000. The education of shahkot is on peak such that
Govt Higher Secondary School for girls,
Govt Higher Secondary School for Boys,
Govt High school No. 2 for Boys,
Govt Degree College for Boys,
Govt Degee College for Women,
Govt High school Dalla Nangal shahkot,
Govt High school Dharo wali,
a large no. of Govt Primary and Elementory schools for Girls and boys.
and manay manay more private schools and colleges like as Shahab College,Jinah College,Raza College of Computer,Ideal College of Computer,Anglo College,Shahkot College of Commerce,Lahore college of Technical,Dare Arqam School,The Educaters,KBI school system etc.
There are thirty mosques in shahkot and most famous are Khajoor Wali Mosque,Masjid Ghalla Mandi Wali,Madina Masjid,Jamia Muhammadia,Jamia Ashrafia,Imam Bargah,Bilal Mosque,Noori Mosque etc.
Tanzeem Faizan_e_Lasani Sarkar is also in Shahkot.
Muhammad Adnan Afzal Naqshbandi belongs to Ward # 8 Shahkot is the Ameer_e_Halqa of Tanzeem Faizan_e_Lasani Sarkar in Shahkot.
Sahibzada Abd_ul_Qayyum Naqshbandi Sahib from Faisalabad Numainda Khas Tanzeem faizan_e_Lasani Sarkar also comes in Shahkot.
Tehreek Minhaj UL Quran is also in Shahkot.
Pir Noor UL Mustafa also comes in shahkot four times in a month for Juma Prayer in Khajoor Wali Mosque and Syed Hadiyat Rasool Shah of president Minhaj ul quran faisalabad also comes in shahkot three times in a month.
There are one sports complex and one hockey complex in shahkot and most popular games of shahkot are Cricket,Hockey,Foot Ball,Kabadi and Bed Minton.
There is one police station in shahkot and crime rtaio is under control as per nearest areas.
Bilal Kefe is the only entertainment point for the people of shahkot.
Shahkot is a central trade point with its four famous bazar's as Sangla Bazar,Faisalabad Bazar,Mananwala Bazar,Jaranwala Bazar and Anar kali street.
The majour prolem of shahkot is that many young guys use Drugs.
The most popular personalites of shahkot are Noor ul Mustafa Rizwi,Fiaz Ahmed Bao, Rana Muhammad Akram Khan Ex Vice President National bank of Pakistan, Mian Amanullah Rtd senior headmaster govt high school no 2 president's award of pride of performance and president's medal of Izaz-e-fazeelat silver medal for outstanding performance by Lahore board of inter&secondary education cash award winner of ministry of education govt of Pakistan for seven years,Dr Mohammad ijaz ullah charter member of lions club and president TB patients wel fore socity,Asif Sohail(Textiles Engineer)Ward No.12,Afzal Shareef mian Muhammad ilys belong to ch #86 (PhD.in EDUCTION).rana Shahid belong to patar wali (PhD in management sciences) mian mohsan saeed (PhD in bio science) Dr. Shahid Javed Kahloon belong to ch number 80 (M.B.B.S; PhD) and shahbaz akhtar, ch number 80 ( PhD) etc.
ward no. 11 mohala mughal mugal pura is the most popular area of shahkot. This ward produced the great doctor,layers,teachers,etc. the office of PML N is also in ward no. 11. the office of Tehreek Mihaj ul Quran is also in ward no.11. Abid hotel and mitho hotel also in ward no. 11. Mr. sajjad qadri is the voice president of tehreek minhaj ul quran also belongs to ward no. 11.
LIONS CLUB is also working in shahkot.