As electioneering is gaining momentum and three major political parties PPP, PML-N, PML-Q are facing each other in Narowal district. The candidates contesting on provincial national assembly seats have restarted their election campaign that was slowdown due to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in the district.
The contestants are holding corner meetings and visiting village-to-village for obtaining votes in their respective constituencies for the upcoming election in Narowal and Shakargrah tehsils of district.
As many as 16 candidates on three national and 29 candidates are contesting on five Provincial Assembly seats with total registered voters are 64,0517 out of which 28,5435 female registered voters in the district.
The candidates contesting on national and provincial assembly seats along with the influential and their supporters were utilising all modes including visiting door-to-door canvassing and village-to-village meetings for getting maximum votes during the upcoming election in the district.
Besides, the supporters of the candidates are busy in decorating their vehicles with colourful posters of their candidates and party symbols besides huge banners were also displayed in various parts of the city and other parts of the district.
Narowal district is divided into tehsils Narowal and Shakargrah. Before the independence of Pakistan, Shakargrah town was the headquarter of tehsil Shakargrah, which formed part of Gurdaspur district, British India. Under the Radcliff Award Shakargrah tehsil was transferred to Pakistan and attached to Sialkot district.
On July Ist 1991 Narowal and Shakargrah were removed from Sialkot district to form Narowal district. The district is bounded on the north-west by Sialkot district, on the north by Kashmir, on the east by Gurdaspur district of India that contains the Pathankot tehsil contiguous to Pakistan and internationalised on the south by Amritsar district (India) and Sheikhupura district.
The total area of the district is approximately 2,337 square kilometres of which Narowal tehsil occupies 1,065 square kilometres and remaining area 1272 square kilometres falls in Shakargrah tehsil. According to 1998 census the total population of the district is 1256,097 of which only 12.11 percent were urban.