Chichawatni

Chichawatni is a city in the Sahiwal District of the Punjab province of Pakistan and the administrative center of Chichawatni Tehsil, one of the two tehsils of the district. It lies near the old Grand Trunk Road, about 45 kilometres from the district capital Sahiwal and roughly 20 kilometres from the ancient Upper Indus site of Harappa. The city is the headquarters of a forest division, and the Chichawatni Plantation, dating to 1923, covers about 3,600 hectares and is described as the second-largest forest plantation in Pakistan. Its cattle market, Mandi Muwaishiyan, is among the largest in the country, and the town is home to one of the few floodlit kabaddi stadiums in Pakistan. A first railway station was built in 1918 and a new one in 2007. The 2017 census recorded a population of 94,733.