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  Rawalpindi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rawalpindi remained under the rule of the Gakkhars till Muqarrab Khan, the last Gakkhar ruler, was defeated by the Sikhs in 1765.
Rawalpindi is the nearest major city for the holiday resorts and hill stations of the Galiyat area, such as Murree, Nathia Gali, and Ayubia.
Rawalpindi was the headquarter for the relief operations during the aftermath of October 2005 earthquake that devastated northern Pakistan and parts of India and Afghanistan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rawalpindi   (1450 words)

  
 Rawalpindi - LoveToKnow 1911
The district is traversed by the main line of the North-Western railway, crossing the Indus at Attock, and also by a branch towards the Indus at Kushalgarh.
The Division Of Rawalpindi lies in the north-west of the Punjab.
It consists of the five districts of Gujrat, Attock, Shahpur, Jhelum, and Rawalpindi.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Rawalpindi   (561 words)

  
 Attock District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The district was created in 1904 by the merger of Talagang tehsil from the Jhelum District and the Pindigheb, Fatehjang and Attock tehsils from Rawalpindi District of British Raj.
Attock District is bordered by the Haripur and Swabi districts of North-West Frontier Province to the north, the district of Rawalpindi to the east, the district of Chakwal ot the southeast, the district of Mianwali to the southwest, and North-West Frontier Province districts of Kohat and Nowshera to the west and northwest.
The district possesses mainly hills, plateaus and dissected plains with the river Indus on the northern and western borders of the district.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Attock_District   (290 words)

  
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Dera Ismail Khan district is one of the hottest areas in the Indian continent, while over the mountain region to the north the weather is temperate in the summer and intensely cold in the winter.
The conquered strata of the poputhe rise of Ranjit Singh, the frontier districts remained an appendage of the Durani empire.
It omitted Sind altogether, and con-fined the new province to the Pathan trans-Indus districts north of the Gomal.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=48755   (3058 words)

  
 Legislators from RAWALPINDI (Pp-1 to Pp-11)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Pp-5 (Rawalpindi): PML(N) Haji Malik Umer Farooq, son of Malik Muhammad Ali, was born in 1966 at Taxila; and, is a matriculate.
Pp-8 (Rawalpindi): PML(N) Raja Ashfaq Sarwar, son of Raja Ghulam Sarwar Khan (former MPA), was born on October 27, 1954 in Rawalpindi; and, is an agriculturist and businessman.
Pp-11 (Rawalpindi): PML(N) Raja Muhammad Javaid Ikhlas, son of Raja Muhammad Ikhlas Khan, was born on August 10, 1995 at Mohra Noori, Gujjar Khan; and, is an intermediate.
www.pap.gov.pk /legislators/last/dist1.htm   (1282 words)

  
 history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Rawalpindi district extended from the Jhelum to the Indus and comprised seven tehsils.
It was in Rawalpindi that a treaty of peace was signed between Afghanistan and India as a consequence of the end of the Afghan war.
It was at Rawalpindi that Khan Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, fell a victim to the bullet of a fanatic.
www.rawalpindi.gov.pk   (1388 words)

  
 ADB seeks city dist status for Rawalpindi -DAWN - National; 26 February, 2004
RAWALPINDI, Feb 25: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has asked the ministry of local government and rural development, Punjab, to award the status of city district to Rawalpindi Tehsil as per Local Government Ordinance (LGO), 2001, in order to encourage integrated development and strengthen the civic bodies here, sources told Dawn on Wednesday.
If awarded the city district status, the existing Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) would be abolished and a number of municipal administrations would be established at the town level after dividing the city into various blocks, keeping in view the population and geographical location of each block.
After becoming the city district, the roles of Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) and Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) would be further invigorated, as both the civic agencies would be free from the intervention of the TMA in their jurisdictions and duties.
www.dawn.com /2004/02/26/nat13.htm   (532 words)

  
 PPP dominates in Rawalpindi district -DAWN - National; October 12, 2002
RAWALPINDI, Oct 11: The People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) emerged as the single largest party in Rawalpindi district by winning three national and five provincial assembly seats out of a total of seven national and 14 provincial assembly seats.
The position of other political parties in the district is that the PML-N won one national assembly and four provincial assembly seats; the PML-Q succeeded in winning two provincial assembly seats while the MMA won a single provincial assembly seat.
The heavyweights who failed to succeed in the Rawalpindi district constituencies were; the chairman of the PML-N, Raja Zafarul Haq, vice-president of the PML-N, Syed Zafar Ali Shah, president of the PML-Z, Ijazul Haq, chief of the Pakistan Awami Tehrik, Dr Tahirul Qadri; and president of PML-Q’s women wing, Ms Nilofer Bakhtiar.
www.dawn.com /2002/10/12/nat1.htm   (981 words)

  
 biodiversity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In view of its varied geographical features, the district is rich in the variety of its flora, differing in character at different elevations.
It is believed that Gondwana age when the Indo Gangetic plain was still to be formed, the Indus, the Ganges and the Bahamap had a common course and their ancient river known as the Siwdik or the Indo-Braham followed at one age the course which is at present the bed of the Soan.
The most important marsh in the district is at Khanna Dhak, it extends over 70 acres and is paradise for sportsmen.
www.rawalpindi.gov.pk /Bio.htm   (718 words)

  
 MARCH, 1947.
These districts were worse situated from the point of view of the harassed and beseiged Hindu and Sikh populations, even than the districts of the Rawalpindi Division in the Punjab.
In the rural areas of Rawalpindi, however, it was a case of mass attack by Muslims, and a general massacre of Hindus and Sikhs.
Altogether the Chakwal Tehsil of Jhelum District was over-run.
voi.org /books/mla/ch4.htm   (10538 words)

  
 ETHNOPHYTOTHERIPICAL APPROACHES FOR THE TREATMENT OF DIABETES BY THE LOCAL INHABITANTS OF DISTRICT ATTOCK (PAKISTAN)
C. The total area of the district is 6856.703 Sq Km (2647.395 Sq miles) (Anonymous, 1998).
The present enumeration is based on 37 indigenous plant species used as traditional phytotherapy for the control and treatment of diabetes by rural inhabitants of District Attock.
Compounds from these plants with proven results may then be synthesized in large amount commercially for wider circulation throughout the world for global marketing.
www.siu.edu /~ebl/leaflets/phyto.htm   (1914 words)

  
 The Nation
He announced development package of one billion rupees for Rawalpindi district and said the uplift activities initiated by the present government had started yielding results and besides generation of job opportunities, fruits of development and prosperity were reaching the masses.
Referring to the development projects for Rawalpindi district, the chief minister said under the development package for tehsil Gujjar Khan, a number of projects were being completed while numerous schemes had already been executed.
He said Rs 350 million had been utilised on educational projects in district Rawalpindi during the last two years, whereas free textbooks were being provided in 6,400 schools of the province from October 1 next.
www.nation.com.pk /daily/sep-2005/18/index6.php   (1003 words)

  
 News of Agha Moosavi
RAWALPINDI, March 22: Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi, chief of the Tehreek Nafaz Fiqh-e-Jafariya, Pakistan has said adopting a courageous and concrete strategy after achieving independence from international colonial powers and their agents for solidarity of Islam and Pakistan was the need of the hour.
RAWALPINDI, February 23: Youm-e-Shuhada was observed throughout the country including Azad Kashmir and Northern Areas to mourn the Shahadat of worshippers in Masjid and Imambargah Muntazir Al-Mahdi Malir Karachi incident on the call of Quaid-i-Millat Jafariya, Pakistan, Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi.
RAWALPINDI, February 24: Agha Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi, chief of the Tehreek Nafaz Fiqh-e-Jafariya, Pakistan has said the Uswah-e-Haider Karrar (A.S.) is the death of terrorism and hypocrisy, and active promotion of sacrifice, love and mutual understanding was the need of the hour to turn this world into a hub of peace.
www.jafariyanews.com /regional/tnfj9.htm   (1798 words)

  
 ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Pakistan: Punjab government to provide help to earthquake victims in ...
He stated this while addressing 36 teams of skilled labour volunteers from the six districts of Punjab --Lahore, Multan, Sialkot, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad and Gujranwala-- who left here today to participate in the relief and reconstruction campaign of the earthquake affected areas of NWFP and Azad Kashmir.
The governor also lauded the efforts and contributions of the people of district government Rawalpindi and the people for their generous assistance to the victims of the earthquake.
The District Nazim Rawalpindi on the occasion highlighted the efforts and contribution of the district government Rawalpindi for the relief to the victims of the earthquake.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6JC8VD?OpenDocument   (630 words)

  
 Briefings :: PML and allies sweep third phase of polls
In Lahore, the PML swept all seats of district and town nazims except for Wagah Town where the Pakistan People’s Party’s candidate won with a narrow margin.
In Rawalpindi district, government-backed Raja Javed Akhlas defeated opposition-backed Raja Tariq Kiyani in the district nazim elections.
Polling in the third phase of the local council elections was held to elect city district, district, tehsil, and town nazims and women, peasant and minority councillors.
www.punjabilok.com /punb2/full.php?p=1426&more=1   (658 words)

  
 Indiatimes - Cricket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
RAWALPINDI: Winds of change are sweeping across the cricketing landscape of Pakistan and they are better off for it.
The traditional inter-city rivalry between Karachi and Lahore may still generate some heat and hype, but there's a quiet cricket revolution brewing in the districts which are making their presence felt in Pakistan's domestic cricket.
Shoaib Akhtar and Yasir Arafat are from Rawalpindi, Inzamam from Multan,Mohammed Asif and Naved-ul Hasan Rana from Sheikhupura, while Umar Gul and Arshad Khan are Peshawaris.
cricket.indiatimes.com /articleshow/1408779.cms   (389 words)

  
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RAWALPINDI, Dec 1 (SANA): President Pervez Musharraf has underlined the importance of democracy within political parties at the grass root level for sustained socio economic development of the country.
He was talking to a delegation of elected representative and local leaders of Rawalpindi district, who headed by Information Minister Shaikh Rashid Ahmed who called on him here on Thursday.
President Pervez Musharraf thanked the delegation for their efforts in raising the amount and said it reflected the unity and spirit of sharing demonstrated by the nation in the wake of the natural disaster.
www.sananews.com.pk /full.asp?id=2517   (256 words)

  
 ::: TheNetwork for Consumer Protection in Pakistan :::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Study shows that price of every third drug was doubled during 90s, "The last four years of 90s experienced 15 percent increase compared with 66 percent of the first six years".
Study on the availability of Essential Drugs for treatment of Tuberculosis in Rawalpindi district reveals that the availability of essential tuberculosis drugs in the district is very poor.
TheNetwork carried out a cross-sectional survey in thickly populated urban areas of Rawalpindi district to check the adherence of private practioners with tuberculosis treatment guidelines.
www.thenetwork.org.pk /pharma.htm   (730 words)

  
 ONLINE - International News Network
RAWALPINDI: Information minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad has appointed Punjab local government minister Muhammad Basharat Raja as in-charge of election campaign of Pakistan Muslim League-backed candidates for the slots of district and tehsil nazims in Rawalpindi.
The minister said the opposition had so far failed to find appropriate candidates for the tehsil and district councils and they would lose the third phase of local council elections to PML favourites in Rawalpindi.
He said the nomination of former district nazim Raja Tariq Kiyani by Jamaat-e-Islami and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz came as a pleasant surprise to him.
www.onlinenews.com.pk /details.php?id=86709   (332 words)

  
 JI Media News  :  Country wide rallies demand release of Qazi, other PADC leaders
JI ameer Rawalpindi district, Abbas Butt, said India had gathered its forces along the Line of Control, and was ready to launch an attack on Pakistan.
The naib ameer JI Rawalpindi district, Maulana Abdul Jalil, said the country was passing through the worst economic and political crisis.
The president of Shabab Milli Rawalpindi, Haji Tahir Khan, in his speech, said the country was facing severe threats due to the government's policies.
www.jamaat.org /news/news01/pr122801.html   (1001 words)

  
 Hussaini speakers assure Moosavi to fully support his line of action | Jafariya News Network
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: To pay homage to the TNFJ martyrs of Bari Imam incident, Majalis-e-Aza continued throughout the country on Tuesday.
Central Majlis-e-Aza was held in Rawalpindi at Qadeemi Imambargah (Hussaini Mohaz) under the auspices of TNFJ District Council Rawalpindi.
This year, as soon as his name was called for addressing the Majlis, the gory terrorists carried out the blast leaving Azadaran in a pool of blood ands flames of fire.
www.jafariyanews.com /2k5_news/june/15hussainispeakers_pak.htm   (1124 words)

  
 Gateway to Sikhism :Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It is clear that the Jat Sikh from the central districts of the Punjab has been very largely responsible for the building up of the colony areas of Lyallpur and Montgomery in the Punjab, which form the granary of a large part of India.
"Adjoining the trans-Ravi tract of Gurdaspur District in the preceding paragraphs is the Narowal Tehsil of Sialkot District.
In Rawalpindi district there is the Panja Sahib Gurdwara, sanctified by Guru Nanak, and so is the famous Babe di Ber in Sialkot.
allaboutsikhs.com /books/gst/chap-12.htm   (5760 words)

  
 figures3
Thus in the entire district of Chakwal, the total strength of Ahmadis is 600 whereas the population of Chakwal is 1.2 to 1.3 million.
Same was the case in Rawalpindi and Chakwal but in the Jalsa Salana of 1995, Mirza Tahir gave the good news of achieving the target.
Now the situation is this that in the last 6 years Jamaat in every district in Pakistan has received the target which 15 times more than the original population of Ahmadis in those areas and according to Mirza Tahir those targets have been achieved.
alhafeez.org /rashid/figures3.htm   (3099 words)

  
 Khyber Gateway >> Places >> Hazara District
The district of Hazara extends north-eastwards into the outer Himalayan Range, tapering to a narrow point at the head of the Kagan valley.
Later on, Haripur was also upgraded to the level of district of Hazara.
In October 1976, Mansehra was given the status of a full fledged District, which consisted of Mansehra and Batagram Tehsils.
www.khyber.org /pashtoplaces/hazara.shtml   (3442 words)

  
 Rotary District 7150's Downtown Utica e-Rotary Club, NYS, USA
Rotarians and Rotaractors throughout Rotary International District 3270 in Pakistan have mobilized relief efforts throughout the country to assist the affected communities in northern Pakistan.
The club president and assistant district governor will be leading a team to the most affected areas to assess the needs of the local people.
District Governor Faiz Kidwai may also be contacted for information, e-mail.
www.rotaryeclubny1.com /2005Earthquake.htm   (932 words)

  
 Pakistan Times | Top Stories: Punjab CM announces uplift package for Rawalpindi
RAWALPINDI: Chief Minister Punjab Ch Pervaiz Elahi on Sunday announced a comprehensive development package worth hundreds of millions of rupees for various projects in Rawalpindi.
50 million will be spent on provision of water to civilian population living in cantonment area of Rawalpindi, he said adding the incomplete water supply schemes of the cantonment will also be revived.
The Chief Minister announced upgrading of several schools and colleges of Rawalpindi tehsil to secondary, higher secondary and degree level.
pakistantimes.net /2004/03/08/top7.htm   (308 words)

  
 Planning Honeymoon!- Matchpk.com
Chakwal was created as an independent district of Rawalpindi division in 1985 by combining subdivision Chakwal of district Jhelum, sub-division Talagang of district Attock and police station Choa Saidan Shah, carved out of subdivision Pind Dadan Khan, district Jhelum, and amalgamating it with sub-division Chakwal.
Lying at the beginning of the Potohar plateau and the Salt Range, Chakwal is a barani district and the terrain is mainly hilly, covered with scrub forest in the southwest, and levelled plains interspaced with dry rocky patches in the north and northeast.
At present district Chakwal consists of 3 subdivisions - Chakwal, Talagang and Choa Saidan Shah; 1 sub-tehsil- Kallar Kahar, 23 qanungois and 198 patwar circles.
www.matchpk.com /kalpoint/matrimonial/code/ver5.0/guide_wed_honeymoon_Chakwal.asp   (654 words)

  
 APPENDIX - XXXXI to XXXXIX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
People from Hazara District, in the Frontier Province, invaded the Muree Region, and the bazars of Jhikka Gali, Ghora Gali and Lower Topa had been burned, it was officially announced in Lahore on Sunday evening.
Raiders from rural areas, who attempted to force entry into some of the mohallas in Rawalpindi on Friday night and had collected in the outskirts of the city, are reported to have set fire to some of the surrounding villages inhabited by both the communities.
The District Magistrate and the Superintendent of Police hurried to the spot with police and Military detachments and brought the situation under control.
www.bharatvani.org /books/mla/ap41-49.htm   (8614 words)

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