Mian Channu

    The city was named when a Sufi saint Mian Channu who lived and buried there. there's a lore concerning the name that in English rule administration tried to vary the name of town. They painted all boards with the new name, however at nighttime somehow the boards modified to back to the first. They tried repeatedly vainly since then the name of space is Mian Channu. Educational establishments, medical unit, railroad terminal, fruit mandi, park and a library. A Mosque, a temple and Gurdwara was designed to perform spiritual obligation for all communities. within the year 1919, it had been declared as a notified space committee and in 1938 as a city committee. Its limits were last extended within the year 1950.

    Since then no extension has been created and also the development the city from 1947 to 1961 remained slow. it had been assigned of Municipal Committee in 1975, because it had fully grown into tiny urban centre by that point. at the moment the city started developing and major growth has been going down from 1972 to 1984. however the trend of growth during this amount has mostly been on G.T Road and within the northern direction. It's been the headquarters of the Mian Channu Tehsil, Khanewal District since 1985 and is administratively divided into three Union councils. It's just about sixty five,000 residents and is found on the Grand main road (250 kilometre South West of Lahore and 1050 kilometre North East of Karachi) and KLP (Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar) railway line. 

    For a amount of quite a century, Mian Channu has been a part of District of Multan. With the raising of standing of Mian Channu to a tehsil headquarters and creation of a replacement District of Khanewal from one July 1985, Mian Channu Tehsil become an area of the new District of Khanewal. Town is one amongst the main contributor to agricultural production. Cotton, wheat and mango ar the main agricultural product. Major crops of the city ar wheat, grain, peas, barley ar the vital crops of Rabi season, whereas Kharif crops are cotton, sugarcane, jawar, bajra, oil seeds that are shipped by rail and road to alternative components of the country.