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Qazi Abdur Rehman Amritsari
Pakistani author, poet and teacher From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Qazi Abdur Rehman Amritsari (Urdu: قاضی عبد الرحمن امرتسری) was a Pakistani school teacher, author, and poet of the Urdu language. He was born in 1908 in Amritsar and migrated to Pakistan after the partition of British India. He was the person who proposed the name of the new capital of Pakistan, Islamabad, in 1959.[1]
According to a history book by Muhammad Ismail Zabeeh, Qazi Abdur Rehman Amritsari proposed the name of the city.[2][3] On 11 March 1960, the Government of Pakistan confirmed that the name of Islamabad was proposed by Qazi Abdur Rehman Amritsari in a letter sent to him by the Federal Capital Commission.
He received his primary education in the government high school in Amritsar and then studied at the Government Islamia College in Lahore. After migration in 1947, he worked as a school teacher in the Sahiwal District.
He retired in 1968 and died on 25 April 1990 in Arif Wala, Punjab, Pakistan, without receiving the promised plot.
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