History of city names

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Its now Shaheed Muhatarma Benazir Bhutto medical University :bummer:

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koi jagga bach gayi hay BB kay naam say?

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Quaid e Azam ka mazar :p

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Benazirabad, Benazir Medical College, Benazir International Airport :smack:

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watch from 2:50 to 3:50 and tell how Attock got name ‘Attock’?

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Istanbul

The first known name of the city is Byzantium (Greek: Βυζάντιον, Byzántion), originating from the name of the king, Byzas, whose colony founded it around 660 BC.After Constantine the Great made it the new eastern capital of the Roman Empire in 330 AD, the city became widely known as Constantinopolis (Constantinople), which, as the Latinized form of "Κωνσταντινούπολις" (Kōnstantinoúpolis), means the "City of Constantine". He also attempted to promote the name Nea Roma ("New Rome"), but this did not attain widespread usage.[19] Constantinople remained the most common name for the city in the West until the establishment of the Turkish Republic, and Kostantiniyye (Ottoman Turkish قسطنطينيه) was the primary name used by the Ottomans during their rule. Nevertheless, the use of Constantinople to refer to the city during the Ottoman period (from the mid-15th century) is now considered politically incorrect, even if not historically inaccurate, by Turks.

By the 19th century, the city had acquired a number of other names used by either foreigners or Turks. Europeans used Constantinople to refer to the whole of the city, but used the name Stamboul—as the Turks also did—to describe the walled peninsula between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara. Pera (from the Greek word for "across") was used to describe the area between the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus, but Turks also used the name Beyoğlu, which is still in use today. Islambol (meaning either "City of Islam" or "Full of Islam") was sometimes colloquially used to refer to the city, and was even engraved on some Ottoman coins, but the belief that it was the precursor to the present name, İstanbul, is belied by the fact that the latter existed well before the former and even predates the Ottoman and Muslim conquest of the city.

Etymologically, the name İstanbul (Turkish pronunciation: [isˈtanbuɫ], colloquially ɯsˈtambuɫ]) derives from the Medieval Greek phrase "εἰς τὴν Πόλιν" (pronounced [is tin ˈpolin]), which means "in the city" or "to the city". This reflected its status as the only major city in the vicinity, much in the same way people today often colloquially refer to their nearby urban centers as "the City". An alternative view is that the name evolved directly from the name Constantinople, with the first and third syllables dropped.

In modern Turkish, the name is written as İstanbul, with a dotted İ, as the Turkish alphabet distinguishes between a dotted and dotless I. Also, while in English the stress is on the first syllable (Is), in Turkish it is on the second syllable (tan). İstanbul was officially adopted as the sole name of the city in 1930. A person from the city is an İstanbullu (plural: İstanbullular), although Istanbulite is used in English.

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Since you have brought this topic up again, I was thinking of a few cities which have some sort of castes, like:

Sial kot, sahi wal, guj rat and gujran wala. These are some that I can think on top of my head.

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Gujran wala, = jahan gujar rehte ho right :hmmm:

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Yes Gujrat, Gujjar Khan, Gojra and Gujranwala (A big Kashmiri community lives there as well) represent Gujjars, Sialkot Sials and Sahiwal Sahis…

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According to Wikipedia gujjars compose of 20 % of Pakistans population, and some very important people are/were part of this tribe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujjar,_Pakistan

Gujjar/Gojar/Gurjar is a South Asian tribe; Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh. Gujjar’s history also goes back to Central Asia and Middle Eastregion. This information is specifically form Gujjars of Pakistan.
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The subdivisions of Pakistan

Pakistan:
The Muslim Gujjars are considered to be a major tribe in Pakistan; in fact, they compromise as much as twenty percent of the country’s entire population. Gujjars have given their names to several places in Pakistan, including Gujranwala, Gujjar Nallah, Gujar Khan, Gojra and Gujrat. The Gujjars have migrated and settled in many urban areas of Pakistan. Islamabad, Sialkot, Lahore, Faisalabad and Karachi has now large Gujjar population. Some population is also present in urban and rural areas of Sindh and Balochistan. Male Gujjars are entitled to use the prefix Ch. (abbreviation for Chaudhury) in front of their first name. This acts as a courtesy title.

Mian Muhammad Bakhsh میاں محمد بخش

Mian Muhammad Bakhsh was a Sufi saint and a Punjabi/Pahari poet. He belonged to Gujjar tribe and subcast was Paswal. He is especially renowned as the author of a book of poetry called Saif-ul-Malūk. He was born in a village called Khari Sharif, situated near Mirpur, Azad Kashmir.

edit]Choudhry Rahmat Ali چودھری رحمت علی

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The Continent of DINIA by ChoudhryRahmat Ali, M.A., L.L.B., Barrister-at-Law

Choudhry Rahmat Ali was a Pakistani Muslim nationalist who was one of the earliest proponents of the creation of the state of Pakistan. He is credited with creating the name “Pakistan” for a separate Muslim homeland in South Asia and is generally known as the founder of the movement for its creation.
He advised the shown map of Pakistan keep in view of AllamaIqbal’s dream. He is best known as the author of a famous 1933 pamphlet titled Now or Never “Are We to Live or Perish Forever”, also known as the Pakistan Declaration. The pamphlet started with a famous statement; “At this solemn hour in the history of India, when British and Indian statesmen are laying the foundations of a Federal Constitution for that land, we address this appeal to you, in the name of our common heritage, on behalf of our thirty million Muslim brethren who live in PAKSTAN - by which we mean the five Northern units of India, Viz: Punjab, North-West Frontier Province (Afghan Province), Kashmir, Sind and Baluchistan.”

edit]Major Muhammad Tufail طفیل محمد

Tufail Mohammad was born 1914 in Hoshiarpur, Punjab. Mohammad was posthumously awarded the Nishan-e-Haider, Pakistan’s highest military award and is the only person to win the award for an action outside the Indo-Pakistan Wars. In 1958, Major TufailMuhammed was posted to East Pakistan as the Company Commander of a battalion of East Pakistan Rifles (a Para military force for border security). Major MuhammedTufailwas martyred on 7 August 1958 and buried with full military honors in his native city Burewala. His native town has been named after him and is now known as Tufailabad. Major MuhammedTufail was posthumously awarded the Nishan-e-Haider and he is the only person to get this award for an action outside the Indo-Pakistani wars.

edit]Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, فضل الہی چودہری

Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry was elected as member of the National Assembly in 1970 on the ticket of the Pakistan Peoples Party and was later elected as the Speaker of the National Assembly. After Independence, he was given the post of Parliamentary Secretary. He was later appointed Minister for Education and Health. In 1951, he contested the elections of the Punjab Legislative Assembly on the Muslim League ticket and was elected as a member of the Punjab Assembly. In 1952, he represented Pakistan in the United Nations. In the 1956 elections, he was elected as member of the West Pakistan Assembly. Chaudhry was its Speaker May 20, 1956 – October 7, 1958. In 1962, when Ayub Khan announced the elections, he was selected as the Deputy Opposition Leader of the House on the basis of his experience and knowledge about parliamentary proceedings. Chaudhry joined the Convention Muslim League, and after the 1956 elections, he was elected as the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly.He was the 5th President of Pakistan.

edit]Vice Chief of Army Staff General SawarKhan سوار خان چودھری

Vice Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Sawar Khan was promoted to Lt General on 24 March 1976 by General Zia-ul-Haq. Sawar Khan who at the time was serving as Adjutant General (AG) at the GHQ was sent as the Commander XI Corps, Peshawar, where he replaced the recently superseded Lt. Gen. Majeed Malik.
In 1978 When Zia imposed martial law, the then Lt Gen Sawar Khan was sent as the governor of Punjab province in 1978, in addition to his responsibilities as Commander IV Corps, Lahore. He was part of small coterie of generals under General Zia ul-Haq, who determined the national security policies in the martial regime. He served as a Governor of Punjab, Pakistan till March 1980.

He was part of small coterie of generals under General Zia ul-Haq, who determined the national security policies in the martial regime. n April 1980, when the post of the deputy chief of army staff (created by Zia-ul-Haq) was redefined and re-designated as the Vice Chief of Army Staff, General Sawar replaced Lt Gen Iqbal Khan, the first deputy chief of army staff who took over in 1978. General Sawar was replaced by the Zia’s deputy General Khalid Mahmud Arif in March 1984 after completing the four-year term. He was awarded with Nishan-e-Imtiaz for his Excellent service to the Nation.

edit]Aftab Ahmad Sherpao آفتاب احمد خان شیرپائو

Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao born August 20, 1944) is the head of Pakistan Peoples Party (Sherpao) and was the 35th Federal Interior Minister of Pakistan. Prior to this assignment he was working as the Federal Minister for Water and Power (WAPDA), Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas and States & Frontier Regions (KANA & SAFRON) and Minister for Interprovincial Coordination. Sherpao has also served as the 14th and 18th Chief Minister of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

edit]Hayat Mohammad Khan Sherpao حيات محمد خان شير پاؤ

Hayat Muhammad Khan Sherpao was a founding member of the Pakistan Peoples Party, former Federal Minister and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Governor and Senior Minister. February 1, 1937 – February 8, 1975), simply known as Hayat Sherpao, was a notable left-wing intellectual and socialist, serving as the fifteenth Governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan, as well as vice-chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party. Sherpao held important executive offices, including served as the Interior minister and hold numbers provincial ministries of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province. Co-founding the Pakistan People’s Party with Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1967, Sherpao took the responsibility to governed the Kyber Province in a difficult times when the country had lost the East-Pakistan as a result of 1971 Winter war with rival India, and when the Pashtun nationalism was at its peak point, calling for the independence from Pakistan. As governor, he oversaw the re-constitution of provisional assembly, stabilizing the law and order situation in tribal belt, and overseeing the success of covert operations in Afghanistan Soviet Socialist Republic in 1975. His governorship and Sherpao himself tackled and faced intense communist opposition led by AsfandyiarVali, and was assassinated in a targeted bomb explosion on the campus of Peshawar University in 1975.

edit]Chaudhry Sajjad Haider Karim

Sajjad Karim also known as Saj( born 11 July 1970) is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West England. Karim was the first British Muslim elected to the European Parliament on 4 June 2004. He was re-elected in June 2009. In his first term Karim served on the International Trade Committee, Committee of Judicial Affairs and Human Rights Committees and was a Member of the European Parliament’s “Committee of Investigation into alleged CIA extraordinary renditions and secret prisons” after having been the first European Parliamentarian to officially raise the matter. He was the European Legal Affairs Spokesperson and served as a Conservative whip. He was the European Parliamentary rapporteur for the EU-India Free Trade Agreement. In 2005, he established the European Parliament Friends of Pakistan Group, which he continues to chair to present day. He is also a member of the Friends of India and Friends of Bangladesh Groups. He is the Vice-President of the European Parliament’s Equality and Diversity Intergroup and Co-Chair of the European Muslim Forum. He has focused on the rise of intolerance in Europe in recent years, notably the rise of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and growing support for the far-right political parties. In December 2009, Karim was appointed as the Legal Affairs Spokesperson for the Conservative Group in the European Parliament. As well as serving as a full member of the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI), Karim is a substitute on the Industry, Research and Energy Committee and a substitute member of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee. He is also currently a member of the delegations with the Mashreq countries and the Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean.

edit]Chaudhry Ahsan Iqbal احسن اقبال چودہری

Ahsan Iqbal(born September 28, 1958) is a Pakistani politician Member of National Assembly and the former Federal Minister for Education (Pakistan)and Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission (Pakistan). He is the Deputy Secretary General of the center-right party PML-N, and also a member of the Central Executive Committee of the party. He was elected three times (93, 96 and 07) as an MNA from his constituency NA-117.

edit]Qamar Zaman Kaira چودہری قمر زمان کائرہ

Chaudhery Qamar Zaman Kaira is Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Information & Broadcasting.[1]. This is his second term as Information Minister, having previously held the office from 2009 to 2011. He has also served as Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas and acting Governor of Gilgit-Baltistan.

edit]Mian Muhammad Afzal Hayat میاں محمد افضل حيات

Mian Muhammad Afzal Hayat is former Chief Minister of Punjab and served as ambassador in different countries. He is from Kolian Shah HussainGujrat; an ex-MPA & ex-Chief Minister of Punjab from 1996 to 1997 MPA 1970, 1977, 1985. He served as Minister in 1970-1977, he was Opposition Leader 1986-1988 in Punjab Assemble. He has also been the president of Acoba in Aitchison College. He is a Formanite. He joined Pakistan Tehreek e Inshaaf at 14 December 2011.

edit]Chaudhry Amir Hussain حسین چودہری أمير

Chaudhry Amir Hussain is a Pakistani politician. He was the 17th Speaker of National Assembly of Pakistan, serving from 2002 to 2008. Hussain was born in Sialkot, Punjab in a Gujjar family of subcastkhatana and was elected as Speaker of the National Assembly on November 19, 2002, succeeding ElahiBuxSoomro. Five times elected MNA (1985, 1988, 1990, 1997 and 2002).In 1990-1991 Federal Minister of Law, Justice Parliamentary Affairs. 1991-1993 Federal Minister of Parliamentary and Youth Affairs 1997 Chairman National Assembly standing Committee on Law Justice Human Rights and Parliamentary Affairs, 2004 President of Association of Asian Parliament for Peace.

**edit]Major General Professor Doctor Ahmad Khan Chaudhry احمد خان چودھری

Major General Professor Doctor Ahmad Khan Chaudhry** served as General of Pakistan Army in AMC from March 2009 to March 2011. He was awarded with the Sitara-i-Imtiaz Military at 14 August 2010, This Star of Excellence is awarded for his excellent service for Pakistan Armed Forces in situation of war and peace. Ahmad Khan Chaudhry is serving as a Chairman of DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY in CMH-LAHORE MEDICAL COLLEGE AND INSTITUTE OF DENTISTRY.
He completed his M.B.B.S from Nishtar Medical College with Gold medal. After completion of his M.B.B.S, He joined the army. During his career in Pakistan Army; he completed his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) from U.K. He served pakistan Army A.M.C for 30 years with Excellency. He also served as Professor of Surgery at AMC College. Now a days he is serving in CMH Lahore Medical And Dental College Lahore.

edit]Sardar Muhammad Chaudhry

Sardar Muhammad Chaudhry (1937 - 2004) practised law briefly and then joined the Police Service of Pakistan in 1963. He served in the field but the major portion of his career was spent in the Intelligence, FIA and Narcotics Control Board. His last position, before retiring in March 1997, was as Inspector General of Police Punjab, the largest and the most important province of Pakistan. Because of his rich experience and deep insight he emerged as a guide, a wise counsel of the police and government. He is held in high esteem by police force as well as the general public for his high integrity, fairplay and humane approach. He wrote many books after his retirement.

edit]Hafiz Muhammad Saeed حافظ محمد سعید

Hafiz Muhammad Saeed born 1950 is the amir of Jama’at-ud-Da’wah, a charity organization that is widely considered to be a cover organization for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), one of the largest and most activeIslamic terrorist organizations in the world, operating mainly from Pakistan. In 1950, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed was born in Sargodha, Punjab. His family lost 36 of its members when migrating from Shimlato Lahore during the Partition of India. He is married and his wife’s name is Mamoona.

General Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq appointed Hafiz Muhammad Saeed to the Council on Islamic Ideology, and he later served as an Islamic Studies teacher at the University of Engineering and Technology (Lahore), Pakistan. He was sent to Saudi Arabia in the early 1980s by the university for higher studies where he met Saudi Sheikhs who were taking part in the Afghan jihad. They inspired him to join his colleague, Professor ZafarIqbal, in taking an active role supporting the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. There he met some youth who later became his companions.

In 1987 Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, along with Abdullah Azzam, founded Markaz Dawa-Wal-Irshad, a group with roots in the Jamait Ahl-e-Hadis. This organization spawned the jihadist group Lashkar-e-Taiba in 1990, with the help of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence officers.

edit]Chaudhry Muhammad Jaffar Iqbal چودھری محمد جعفر اقبال

He is currently Vice-President of PMLN Punjab. Chaudhry Muhammad Jaffar Iqbal is a Pakistani politician. He is the son of Chaudhry Muhammad Iqbal, and a member of a Gujjar family of Chillianwala, MandiBahauddin. Currently he is Vice-President PMLN Punjab. His Wife Begum Ishrat Ashraf is also MNA and National President of PMLN women wing. His daughter ZabJaffar also MPA & Advisor of Chief Minister of Panjab. He was the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 1997 to 1998
edit]Nawab Sir Fazal Ali Khan نواب فضل علی

Nawab Sir Fazal Ali khan is given the titles of Khan Bhadur and Sir by British Government. His greatest achievement is to establish Government Zamindar School/ College. Due the this school people of Gujrat arises all the big posts of Pakistan and worldwide. He is also known as Sir Syed-i-Gujrat.
The Nawabzada Family has been respected, loved and looked upon in Gujrat for over a century. NawabzadaGazanfar Ali Gul has held the name of the Nawabzada Family where it has always belonged and never compromised on his Principles.

edit]Pakistan Army پاک فوج

There are several Gujjar who served in the different core of Pakistan Army. They are un-countable number of Gujjar sons and daughters who served in Pakistan Armed Forces but in this list only those will be mentioned who reached the ranks of Generals, Air Chief Marshalland other respective higher ranks,

  • Major General Muzaffar-ud-Din, Governer of East Pakistan 1966 AD to 1968 AD.

  • Lieutenant General SajjadAkram Cor Commander Pakistan Army

  • Lieutenant General iftikhar Ali Khan

  • Air Marshal Rahim Khan Commander in Chief Pakistan Air Force

  • Air Vice Marshal AsifChauhan Additional Secretary Ministry of Defence Pakistan

  • Major General Muhammad Afzal Chaudhry (E & ME)

edit]Renowned Sportsmen

  • Mushtaq Ahmed One of the World’s best leg spinner.
  • Shoaib Akhtar One of the all time fastest bowler of the World. Rawalpindi Express
  • Mohammad Asif One of the great fast bowler of the World, destroyed his career due to wrong choices
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Yeh gujranwala city Ki history hai? :hayaa:

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^ not really gujranwala but the gujjar clan.

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what about boray wala?

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i had seen some villages where name of a influential family is added after name of village.....

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There are hundreds of such villages in Pakistan especially in Sindh named after such names

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ahaan

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Its like : Goth Haji Gul Laghari, Goth Meer Muhammad Panhwar, Goth Basar Jamali :hehe:

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Lol :D

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aap kis goth ki hain? :faizy:

If you listen a farmaishi program on Radio Pakistan, you can know many names of such villages… They say like this: Iss gaane ke liye Nagpur se farmiash ki ninja hattoRi ne, Jhang se GS baby ne,…

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Apne mere goth ka nam pehley kabhi suna hi nahi hoga :snooty:

Lol @ farmaishi program .
Remind me of Sunday magazine, wahan bhi isi tarah se log shair post karte hain :smiley: