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WAPDA Town

Residential area of Lahore, Pakistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ7946656
Source-derived summary

WAPDA Town (Urdu: واپڈا ٹاؤن, ) is a residential neighborhood located within union council 257 (Wapda Town) in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It is considered one of the more upscale residential societies of Lahore.

Location

Wapda Town is situated south of Johar Town and southwest of Township, with its primary entrance facing northeast of Shahrah Nazaria-e-Pakistan. Secondary entrance facing west of Khayaban-e-Jinnah.

Subdivisions

WAPDA Town is divided into three Phases, which are further divided into blocks.

Healthcare

The nearest major hospital is Evercare Hospital, it is the state of the art hospital with all indoor and outdoor facilities.

Another hospital is Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre built by cricketer turned politician Imran Khan. Local clinics include:

Health City Hospital

Qasim Sindhu Hospital

Education

Following schools are present mostly at Wapda Avenue or nearby:

Soar Stem School

Mazen School

Beaconhouse School System

Unique School

Aurora School

Meridian School

Allied School

The City School

International School of Cordoba

and many others.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “WAPDA Town” as residential area of Lahore, Pakistan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 161-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-01-01. The account is most persuasive where WAPDA, Town and Residential can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as residential area of Lahore, Pakistan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7946656. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from WAPDA Town” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.