Farooqabad

Farooqabad is a city in Sheikhupura District, Punjab, Pakistan, about 55 kilometres west of Lahore on Sargodha Road, beside the Lahore-Islamabad motorway and on the Lahore-Faisalabad-Karachi railway line, between the Qadirabad Balloki Link Canal and the Upper Gogera Branch Canal. Until 1983 it was known as Chuhar Kana, after Sardar Chuhar Singh, the Sikh leader credited with founding it; the rename to Farooqabad came under the military government of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. Before the Partition of India in 1947 the area had a large Sikh community, and Sikh pilgrims still visit places such as Sucha Sauda nearby. The city is known for a Punjab Police training centre, the Pakistan Adventist Seminary and College, founded as a boys' school in 1920, and a large psychiatric rehabilitation centre. The 2023 census counted 109,717 residents. This entry rests on the English Wikipedia article for the city.