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25 unusual facts about Rawalpindi


Akali movement

The next day, a Sikh-Hindu conference was organized during the Punjab Congress Provincial Congress at Rawalpindi.

Alama Iqbal Modal School

It has four branches in Rawalpindi, the main branch has separate classes for boys and girls and is located in Lane # 1, Quaid-e-Azam COlonoy Dhamyal camp Rawalpindi.

Anna Maria Dengel

When Anna Dengel was in her mid-20s she heard that a Scottish physician and Catholic missionary, Agnes McLaren, was looking for women doctors for a hospital in Rawalpindi, India (now Pakistan), which had been established to provide medical care for the Muslim women of the region who were barred from care by male physicians.

Australian cricket team in Pakistan in 1994–95

Australia also played one 3-day first class tour match against President's XI at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi on 23 September 1994.

Baramulla district

The invading tribals started moving along Rawalpindi-Murree-Muzaffarabad-Baramulla Road on 22 October 1947 with Pakistani army men in plain clothes.

It was the oldest and the most important town in north of princely state of Kashmir and Jammu and the 'Gateway of Kashmir Valley' by Rawalpindi-Murree-Muzaffarabad-Baramulla Road until 27 October 1947.

Dada Amir Haider Khan

Dada Amir Haider Khan was born in 1900 in a remote village called, Siahlian Umar Khan, in Rawalpindi district and orphaned at an early age.

George Findlater

Findlater was evacuated to Rawalpindi where he was treated, and unable to continue in the Army as a result of his injuries, he was sent to Netley Hospital to convalesce.

Grammar School Rawalpindi

Grammar School Rawalpindi is located in three areas of rawalpindi: Chaklala scheme 3, lalazar and Adiala road.

Hindustan Socialist Republican Association

On 1 September 1930, the Rawalpindi faction made a failed attempt to burgle the Office of the Controller of Military Accounts.

Launea nudicaulis

Launea nudicaulis is a species of plant which is endemic to India where it is known under a common name bhatal and is found in Hazara, Mansehra, Multan, Rawalpindi and Scinde districts of Punjab and Lahore.

November 2009 Rawalpindi bombing

The November 2009 Rawalpindi bombing was a suicide attack carried out in front of the Mall Road branch of National Bank of Pakistan in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Pakistani Australian

Many of them had come from cities like Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Hyderabad and Peshawar, and were familiar with Western culture and ways of living.

Parliament of Pakistan

The first session of the third National Assembly was held on 8 June 1962 at Ayub Hall, Rawalpindi.

After the adoption of the Second Constitution of 1962, Parliament sessions were arranged both at Dhaka and a newly constructed building (Ayub Hall) at Rawalpindi.

Peshawar Garrison Club

There is a reciprocal arrangement for temporary use of facilities by its members at many associate clubs in Pakistan, such as Rawalpindi, Quetta and Karachi clubs.

Pindi

Rawalpindi, commonly known as Pindi, a city in the Pothohar region of Pakistan

PNS Mehran attack

However, the NI is currently interrogating these former naval officials at Central Military Jail of Rawalpindi.

Ralph Randles Stewart

On a call from the UP Church, India, Stewart joined the Gordon College, Rawalpindi in 1911 to teach elementary Botany and Zoology to pre-medical students.

Rawalpindi, Kapurthala

The Rawalpindi police station also adheres to its Citizens Charter.

September 2007 bombings in Rawalpindi

The 4 September 2007 Rawalpindi bombings refer to the incident on 4 September 2007 in which suicide bombers attacked a bus carrying Government workers exploded in a commercial district of Rawalpindi.

Transport in Islamabad

All major cities and towns are accessible through regular trains and bus services running mostly from the neighbouring city of Rawalpindi.

Udhampur district

Prior to Independence, Northern Command Headquarters was located at Rawalpindi, and was responsible for the defence of North West India.

Viqarunnisa Noon School

The Noons often participated in social work and Viqarunnisa Noon School was one of its projects; there is also a Noon Educational Foundation that funds Pakistani students to study in Oxford and Cambridge, alongside the Viqar un Nisa College for Women, Rawalpindi in Pakistan.

Zarab Khan

Zarab Khan and his son Gahi Khan lived in Darab-kot, Kahuta near Rawalpindi, where they are buried and their graves are marked.


Aftab Ahmad Khan

After various staff appointments in General Headquarters, Rawalpindi, including as Vice Chief of General Staff, Director General Military Training, Research and Development, he commanded a division in Chamb Sector in 1972 followed by taking command of a newly raised X Corps with the rank of Lieutenant General from where he retired after 34 years of service.

Ayesha Bakhsh

Later on she studied at Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi and was granted masters degree in Communication Sciences.

Dilawar Mani

Dilawar Mani born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, is the Chief Executive Officer of Emirates Cricket Board (ECB), the ICC-authorized regulatory authority of UAE cricket.

Faisalabad railway station

The station is used to take people to all parts of Pakistan from Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Quetta, Peshawar and many more cities and towns of Pakistan.

Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim

In 1995, the PCB initiated an inquiry, under the chairmanship of Ebrahim, to look into allegations made by Australian players Shane Warne and Mark Waugh surrounding the First Test between Pakistan and Australia in Karachi in 1994 and the ODI in Rawalpindi.

Fazilka TV Tower

Radio Pakistan then slowly and steadily kept opening new radio stations in the cities of Rawalpindi, Multan, Bahawalpur, Faisalabad, Mianwali, Islamabad and Sialkot.

Ghulam Muhammad Malik

Lieutenant General Ghulam Muhammad Malik (also called G.M. Malik) is former commander of the X Corps, Rawalpindi of the Pakistan Army.

Gohar Ayub Khan

Gohar Ayub was sent to study at the military-controlled Army Burn Hall College and eventually moved on to attend St. Mary's Academy private school in Rawalpindi.

History of Islamabad

The British took control of the region from the Sikhs in 1849 and built Asia's largest cantonment in the region in Rawalpindi.

John Permal

He retained the 100m fastest-man-in-Pakistan title in Rawalpindi in 1967, at Dhaka in 1968, at Karachi in 1970, at Nawabshah in 1971, and again in Lahore for the last time in 1973.

Josh Malsiyani

He was born in a poor family in the Aquilpur locality of Malsian, a small town near Jalandhar which town was the domain of Bedi Family till Sir Kalim Singh Bedi’s migration to Rawalpindi in the 19th century A.D. Josh’s father, who mostly lived in Peshawar, was an illiterate small-trader.

Khalid Maqbool

He is a graduate of the Command and Staff College Quetta, the National Defence College, Rawalpindi and the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, where he attended the Senior International Defense Management Course.

KLP road

The KLP road (Karachi-Lahore-Peshawar Road) is the longest highway in Pakistan between Karachi to Lahore to Rawalpindi and Islamabad to Peshawar.

M Aslam Khan Malik

On his return from UK he joined Rawalpindi Medical College and Holy Family Hospital as assistant professor and established and played a pivotal part in running very successful FFA.Ultrasanography and Laser Units.

Murree Brewery

The brewery has two manufacturing units located in Rawalpindi and Hattar (North-West Frontier Province).

Murree Tehsil

Between Dhanyals, they have seven or eight offshoots of the tribe living in Hazara, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Murree, Bagh Azad Kashmir, Sialkot, Chakwal, Multan and other parts of Pakistan.

Nazir Latif

Bill Latif grew up in Rawalpindi, where his father was a well-known professor of psychology and had done his doctorate at Princeton University.

Presentation Convent High School, Murree

Some of them include Presentation Convent Schools located in Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Jhelum, Sargodha, (Khushab Distt.), Wah, Risalpur, Mingora (Swat) and in Sindh.

Presentation Convent High School, Sargodha

Today in Pakistan there are Presentation schools catering for the educational needs of around thirteen thousand children in Urdu- and English-medium schools, in Rawalpindi, Murree, Jhelum, Peshawar, (Khushab District), Wah, Risalpur, Mingora (Swat) and Sindh.

Rawalpindi experiments

Since the publication of the story by Rob Evans of the Guardian on 1 September 2007, the experiments are referred to as the Rawalpindi experiments or Rawalpindi mustard gas experiments in the media and elsewhere.

Raza Muhammad

He is presently deputed as Additional Secretary at Ministry of Defence Production (MoDP), Rawalpindi, which is tasked with development of military technologies, logistics, and production of ammunition, warheads, and idustrialization for the Pakistan Armed Forces.

S K Tressler

Tressler chaired a seminar ‘Role of Civil Society in 21st century’ organized by Department of Communication and Media studies at Fatima Jinnah Women University in collaboration with the Human Rights and Minorities Department to mark the International Human Rights Day in Rawalpindi.

Shazia

Shazia Manzoor, singer from Rawalpindi, later moved to Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Timeline of 12th-century conversion of Hindu clans to Islam

However, besides Chakwal, there are a quite a few other Minhas villages scattered all over the province including the famous village of Rohtas in Jhelum, Sagri in Rawalpindi, and in Gujar Khan, Kahuta, Sargodha and Faisalabad.

Transport in Lahore

In addition to the historic Grand Trunk Road (G.T. Road), motorways connecting all major cities (Islamabad, Multan, Faisalabad, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, etc.) have been built.

Truck art in Pakistan

Karachi is a major bedecking center for such trucks, though there are other hubs in Rawalpindi, Swat, Peshawar, Quetta and Lahore.

World's biggest cricket bat

Later on, the bat was sent around Pakistan, including the cities of Hyderabad, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Peshawar.