Thursday, 5 January 2017

Pakistani Popular Cities and Origin Names




Pakistan is a very famous and brilliant country among other countries of the world which is famous for outstanding beauty and wonderful places. Here we are discussing the Origin names of Pakistani Popular Cities such as Bahawalpur, Karachi, Islamabad, Hyderabad, Multan, Lahore, Quetta, Sargodha, Rawalpindi and Peshawar.
·         Pakistan: The Origin name of Pakistan and how our elders describe the world of Pakistan have a look? Word Pakistan is the combination of Word (Pak) and (Stan); Pak means Spiritual Cleanness and Stan is the world of Sanskrit language and it comes out of word Isthan which means Country, region, place of living. Beside this look the world of Pakistan; P for Punjab, A for Afghania old name of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, K for Kashmir, S for Sindh and Tan for Balochistan.
·         Lahore: This is a very old and Historical City but no one know about the real name of this place and how they kept the name of this city Lahore. We heard from some people who said that Lahore word comes out of Lowa or Lova world. Lowa or Lova is a word and according to the Hindu religious book Remain it means The Son of Ram.
·          Islamabad: This is also one of the most outstanding cities of Pakistan which is build very brilliantly. The name of this city kept by our Religion Islam, Called Islamabad and this city became the capital of Pakistan in 1959.
·         Karachi: This is one of the biggest and brilliantly build and developed cities of Pakistan and the origin name of this city kept according to different reports such as; Some people said that round about 200 years ago it was a city of fishers. There was a Baloch person name Kalacho living in the city and later they kept the name of this city by his name Kalachi. Another report says that there was women name Kalachi living in the city. The name Kalachi gradually changed to Karachi and this Place became a City in 1925.
·         Multan: This is also one of the very popular cities of Pakistan and it is approximately 4,000 years old City. The old name of this city was Kesapur and the present name Multan comes out of Sanskrit word Mulsthan.  
·         Peshawar: This is a very famous city of Pakhtoons nation in Pakistan and the origin name of this City was kept according to the hard working people. Pesha wer is a Urdu word which means hard working people. We have read in a report that Sultan Mehmood Ghaznawi built this city.
·         Quetta: This is one of the cold place and city of Pakistan and the origin name of Quetta comes out of Qu Atta which means Mountains.
·         Rawalpindi: This is also one of the famous cities of Pakistan and we heard about it that it was the place of Rawal nations. Chaudry Jhunday Khan Rawal established this city is 15th century and later the city name kept on his name Rawalpindi.
·         Sargodha:  This is one of the popular cities of region Punjab province of Pakistan. We have heard that the Name Sargodha comes out of Sar and godha words. In Hindi language Sar means Stream and Godha was a poor man who was sitting on the bank of a stream. That’s why people called it in Urdu (Godhe Wala Sar) but later in 1903 it became a city and they changed its name to Sargodha.
·         Bahawalpur: This is also one of the well known cities of Pakistan and Nawab Bahawal Khan built this city. The name of this city kept by the name of founder and this was the first stat of Pakistan that joined.
·         Hyderabad: The old name of this city was Niron Kot; there was nation living in this place famous for nick name Kalhorhoon. The founder of this city was also Ghulam Ahmad Kalhorha and these people kept the name of this city by our great Islamic Leader Hazrat Ali (R.A).

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