Aabpara آبپارہ (formerly ''Bagh Bhattan''
) is a commercial zone located at the south west of Sector G-6,
Islamabad
Islamabad (; , ; ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's tenth-most populous city with a population of over 1.1 million and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital Territory. Bu ...
,
Pakistan
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, along Khayaban-e-Suharwardy.
It is the oldest market of Islamabad,
having been built in 1960. There is an official
campsite
Campsite, campground, and camping pitch are all related terms regarding a place used for camping (an overnight stay in an outdoor area). The usage differs between British English and American English.
In British English, a ''campsite'' is an ...
in the Aabpara area.
The headquarter of Pakistan's intelligence agency,
ISI, is in Aabpara.
Etymology
In the newly raised capital city, this area was designated for government/civil servants and they lived here with their families. Many of them were from what was known as
East Pakistan
East Pakistan was the eastern province of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, restructured and renamed from the province of East Bengal and covering the territory of the modern country of Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India and Burma, wit ...
(now
Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world and among the List of countries and dependencies by ...
). 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.
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Commercial centres in Islamabad