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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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