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Aabpara
Pakistani commercial zone From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Aabpara (Urdu: آبپارہ ) formerly known as Bagh Bhattan (Urdu:باغ بھٹان) is a commercial zone located at the south west of Sector G-6, Islamabad, Pakistan.[1][2]
Built in 1960 It is the oldest market of Islamabad,[3][4]
The headquarter of Pakistan's intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, is in Aabpara.[5]
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Etymology
In the newly built capital city, this area was designated for government servants and they lived here with their families.[4]
Many of them were from what was known as East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). In 1960, a baby girl was born to a Bengali lady and they named her ‘Aabpara’. Since she was the first child to be born here, all the residents celebrated the event and decided to name the locality after her. [6]
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