Mehrabpur

Mehrabpur
City
Mehrabpur Sindh Pakistan
Mehrabpur Mehrabpur
Coordinates: 27.099444°N 68.420833°E / 27.099444; 68.420833
Country	Pakistan
Province	Sindh
Elevation	28 m (92 ft)
Population
• Total	247,280
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)
Calling code	0242

Mehrabpur (Urdu: محراب پور), (Sindhi:محرابپور), is a city in the Naushahro Firoz District in Sindh province of Pakistan. The city is administratively subdivided into 8 Union Councils. It has a busy railway station on the main railway line between Karachi and Lahore. It is a junction station with a disused branch line to Naushahro Feroze.

Union Councils

Mehrabpur Taluka is administratively further divided into the following 8 Union Councils:

• UC Mehrabpur 1
• UC Mehrabpur 2
• UC Halani
• UC Behlani
• UC Kotri.M.Kabir
• UC Lakha road
• UC Jaindo Rajper
• UC Saeed Pur

Villages

There are more than a dozen villages in Taluka Mehrabpur. Some of them are mentioned below.

• Village Molvi Fateh Mohammad Bandesha (Jaat) 27.05405703527661°N 68.4146580466361°E / 27.05405703527661; 68.4146580466361
• Village Sohrab Khan Unar {{|27|5|39.4|N|68|21|35.3|E|}}
• Pir Qaim Ali Shah
• Suhrab Soomrah
• Mukhtiarabad
• Allahdad Samtio
• Sialabad
• MalakChodaagi
• BaluKhara
• Thari
• Village Havaldar Chiraghdin
• Bhatti Village
• Village Allah dad Samtio
• Village sayed Khuda bux shah
• Village Haji Keerio
• Village Majeed Keerio
• village Noor Muhammad haji rajper.

Train crash

On 19 December 2007, at 2:30 am an overcrowded express train traveling from Karachi to Lahore derailed 2 km (1.2 mi) south of Mehrabpur killing over 49 people and injuring two hundreds more. The derailment seems to have been caused by defective rails.

See also

• Rajkumar Hirani
• The Educators