The town of Arifwala is the headquarters of Arifwala
Municipal Committee, an administratively subdivision of the Pakpattan district. The
Municipal Committee is subdivided into 34 Wards.
In the nineteenth century, Arifwala was only a village named as chak
No. 61/EB. Later, it was called Arifwala because of a landlord named
"Arif" having agriculture land in this village. Arifwala Town was
founded in 1927; the inauguration of the town was performed by Mrs F
B Wace, whose husband was then Registrar of Cooperative Societies,
Punjab. In 1995 it was attached to Pakpattan district. The Town
Hall, which still exists in its original form, was inaugurated by
the Governor of Punjab in 1933.
Government of Punjab has established new local government
system under the Punjab Local
Government Act (PLGA) 2013 after dissolving PLGO 2001. The
Chairman and Vice Chairman
have joined their offices and new local government system
has started functioning.