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A tehsil or tahsil/tahasil (Punjabi: ਤਹਿਸੀਲ, Urdu: تحصیل‏‎, Hindi: तहसील), also known as taluk (or taluq/taluka) and mandal, is an administrative division of some countries of South Asia.

Generally, a tehsil consists of a city or town that serves as its headquarters, possibly additional towns, and a number of villages. As an entity of local government, it exercises certain fiscal and administrative power over the villages and municipalities within its jurisdiction. It is the ultimate executive agency for land records and related administrative matters. Its chief official is called the tehsildar or less officially the talukdar or taluka muktiarkar.

Variations[link]

Tehsil and taluka and their variants are used as English words without further translation. Since these terms are unfamiliar to English speakers outside of the subcontinent, the word county has sometimes been provided as a gloss, on the basis that a tehsil, like a county, is an administrative unit hierarchically above the local city, town, or village, but subordinate to a larger state or province. However, India and Pakistan have two (or more, at least in parts of India) intermediate levels of hierarchy — the district and the tehsil, both of which are sometimes glossed as county. In neither case is the analogy very precise in specific details.

India[link]

In India the term tehsil is only used in some states. For details see the corresponding article.

Pakistan[link]

In Pakistan, the term tehsil is generally used except in Sindh where the term taluka (Urdu: تعلقه) predominates, e.g., Larkana Taluka.^[1] The tehsil is the second-lowest tier of local government in Pakistan; each tehsil is part of a larger District (zila/zilah (Urdu: ضلع)). Each tehsil is subdivided into a number of union councils.

In the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, tehsil has the same meaning as explained above except in Malakand Division, where a district (zila/Zilah) has two or more subdivisions and a subdivision has two or more tehsils. The subdivisions in Malakand Division are about the same as tehsils in the rest of the country.

See also[link]

• Taluqdar
• Tehsildar
• Village accountant

References[link]

External links[link]

• 2001 maps; provides maps of social, economic and demographic data of India in 2001

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Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan (born December 31, 1934 in British India) is Shaikh of the Islamic Naqshbandia Owaisiah of Tasawwuf/Sufism. He is a mufassir (commentator of the Quran); his tafseer is “Israr-ul-Tanzeel”. He is a lecturer, a leader, a philosopher, and a reformist. His spiritual followers are spread all over the world, especially in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, the Middle East, Europe, the United States, and Canada.

Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan is dean of the Siqarah Education System, a unique System which integrates the teachings of Islam with education at both secondary and college levels and strives to transform its young students into enlightened, practical Muslims.

Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan is the Patron-in Chief of Al-Murshid, a monthly magazine of the Islamic Naqsbandia Owaisiah Order of Tasawwuf/Sufism in Urdu. He regularly writes for the Magazine to provide guidance for seekers on the path of Tasawwuf/Sufism. He is also the Patron-in Chief of Al Falah Foundation, an organization established in 1989 for the welfare of the people, especially the poor, in Pakistan’s rural areas.

Tanzeem Al-Ikhwan[link]

Tanzeem Al-Ikhwan Pakistan was founded in the early 1990s with a sole purpose of implementation of Islamic shariah in the country. It has raised the voice of Islamic system on several forums, and the current provision of Islamic banking in Pakistan is the result of the silent efforts of Tanzeem Al-Ikhwan. He has achieved the credit to transalate the Holy Quran into Urdu language.

Writing by Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan[link]

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Quran[link]

• Akram ut Tarajim (Translation of the Holy Quran in Aasan Urdu published in 2011)
• Akram ut Tafasir in urdu (Tafseer of the Holy Quran in Bayanat, Eight paras have been published )
• Asrar at-Tanzil (Complete Tafseer of the Holy Quran (Urdu)
• Asrar at-Tanzil (Complete Tafseer of the Quran) (English)

Books[link]

Books are in Urdu unless otherwise noted.

1. Ghubar-e Rah 1 - Travelogue of visit to UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, UK, US, Bangladesh, and northern areas of Pakistan
2. Ghubar-e Rah 2
3. Irshaad-us saalikeen 1
4. Irshaad-us saalikeen 2
5. Irshaad-us saalikeen 1 (English)
6. Irshaad-us saalikeen 2 (English)
7. Lataaif aur Tazkiya-e Nafs
8. Diyar-e Habeeb main chand roz - Travelogue of visit to Madina and Makkah in Saudi Arabia
9. Noor-o Bashar ke haqiqat
10. Hayat-e Tayyiba (English)
11. Kanz-ut Talibeen
12. Raahi kurb-o bala
13. Asr-e hazir ka imam
14. Tareek e Nisbat-e Owaisiah
15. Taalemat o Barakaat-e Nabuwat (Sal-Allaho-Alayhay-Wasallam)

Poetry[link]

1. Gard-e Safar
2. Nishan-e Manzil
3. Mata-e Faqeer
4. Aas Jazeera
5. Deeda-e Tarr
6. Kon se aisi baat hui
7. Soch Samandar
8. Dil Darwaaza

See also[link]

• Naqshbandia Owaisiah

External links[link]

• Naqshbandia Owaisiah
• Owaisiah
• Zikr e Ilahi
• Paltalk

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Muhammad Akram
Born	Dinga, Gujrat District, Punjab
Died	Bogra, Bangladesh
Major Akram Shaheed Memorial	Jhelum
Allegiance	Pakistan
Service/branch	Pakistan Army
Years of service	1959-1971
Rank	Major
Unit	31st Frontier Force Regiment
Commands held	4th FF Company, 31st FF Battalion, 205 Infantry Brigade.
Battles/wars	Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Battle of Hilli
Awards	Nishan-e-Haider (1971)

Major Muhammad Akram (Urdu: محمد اکرم; c. 1938–1971), was a Pakistan Army officer who was posthumously awarded the Pakistan military's highest decoration, the Nishan-e-Haider, for his actions during the 1971 Indo-Pak. Akram was sent on several missions in 1971 India-Pakistan War, and was killed in Battle of Hilli, 1971.

Military career[link]

Akram was born in Dinga Village, District of Gujrat, Punjab, while he belonged to the village of Nakka Kalan in the district of Jhelum. Ethnically, he belonged to Awan tribe of Pakistan. In 1959, Akram was accepted in Pakistan Military Academy and graduated from there in 1963. He gained a commissioned in 1963 as part of the Frontier Force Regiment. Akram participated in 1965 Indo-Pak September War as a Captain where he led several successful military operations against Indian Army. Stationed in Lahore, Akram, while commanded, a small company led several decisive operations against the Indian Armed Forces.

In 1969, Akram was promoted as Major. In 1971, as Major of the Pakistan Army, Akram fought in the war with India. In the Battle of Hilli for his leadership, bravery and eventually, rendering the ultimate sacrifice, Major Akram was posthumously awarded the Nishan-e-Haider, Pakistan's highest military award.^[1]

Martyrdom and Legacy[link]

Major Akram Shaheed Memorial

During the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, the 4th FF Regiment, which Akram commanded, was placed in the forward area of the Hilli district, in what was then East Pakistan. The regiment came under continuous and heavy air, artillery and armour attacks from the Indian Army. For an entire fortnight, despite enemy superiority in both numbers and firepower, Akram and his men repulsed every attack, inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy. Akram died during this battle. Major Muhammad Akram (N.H) was buried in village-Boaldar,Thana/Upozila-Hakimpur(Banglahilly),District-Dinajpur. There is a monument, Major Akram Shaheed Memorial, in the midst of Jhelum city. He is called hero of Hilli^[who?]. Anjum Sultan Shahbaz famous writer and historian has mentioned him in the book Tareekh-e-Jhelum and Shohdai Jhelum.

References[link]

Hilly is not a District.It is a Municipality under Hakimpur Upozila,Dinajpur District.

External links[link]

• Nishan-E-Haider
• The Shaheed Foundation's list of recipients

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