Qazi Abdur Rehman Amritsari (

Urdu Urdu (; , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of Indi ...

: قاضی عبد الرحمن امرتسری) was a Pakistani school teacher, author and poet of

Urdu language Urdu (; , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of Indi ...

. He was born in 1908 in

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and migrated to Pakistan after the

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. He was the person who proposed the name of the new capital of Pakistan,

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, in 1959. According to a history book by Muhammad Ismail Zabeeh, Qazi Abdur Rehman Amritsari proposed the name of the city. The

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confirmed on 11 March 1960 that the name of Islamabad is proposed by Qazi Abdur Rehman Amritsari in a letter sent to him by the

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He received his primary education in the government high school in Amritsar and then studied at the Government Islamia College in

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. After migration in 1947 he worked as a school teacher in the

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. He retired in 1968 and died on 25 April 1990 in

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, Pakistan without receiving the promised plot.

Books

* ''Hawaiy Taibba'' نعتیہ شعری مجموعہ ’ہوائے طیبہ‘

References

1908 births 1990 deaths 20th-century Pakistani historians Pakistani male journalists Pakistan Movement activists People from Punjab Province (British India) {{Pakistan-historian-stub

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