Habibabad Pablic
- Dist Kasur Tahsil Pattoki
- Jul 10, 2016
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Habibabad (Urdu: حبِيب آباد), (previously, Wan Radha Ram) is a town part of Pattoki Tehsil in the Kasur District in the Province of Punjab, Pakistan. The population is about 150,000.
Location
It lies on the N-5 about 96 kilometres (60 mi) away from Lahore the capital of Punjab Province.
History and environs
The town was named Habibabad in Sardar Araf Nakai's period. Before that it was named Wan Radha Ram the name of a Sikh who had lived there before independence.
Neighborhoods include Bypass, Shuja Market, Shergarh Bazar, Sanda Bazar and Rail Bazar. Much of the town is seeing new construction, as in Faisal Town, Ashrafia Town, and the Lalapak housing scheme. The main areas of Habibabad are Nei Mandi, Purani Mandi, Lalazar Colony, Javed Nagar, Umer Abad and Karmabad.
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