Nowshera Virkan (Urdu: نوشہره وِركاں) is a town[2] and a tehsil situated to the west of the industrial city of Gujranwala, in Punjab, Pakistan.

The dominant surnames of the Nowshera Virkan people are from military castes, including Arain, Bhuttah, Maan, Rajput, Virk, Syed and Goraya clans.

After his death, his son Chaudhry Bilal Ijaz was elected MNA at age 25 in 2002 from Pakistan Muslim League (Q), defeating Hamid Nasir Chattha.

Later in 2008, Mudassir Qayyum Nahra, a Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) from PP-102[5] in 2002–2008,[6] won the seat, but was disqualified and jailed in 2010 for bearing a fake degree.

[7] In the 2010 by-elections, Chaudry Tussadiq Masud Khan (Pakistan Peoples Party), a member of the Rajput clan, was elected as MNA.