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Islamabad officially became the capital of Pakistan on 14 August 1967, exactly 20 years after the country's independence. [1] The first capital of Pakistan was the coastal city of Karachi in Sindh, which was selected by Muhammad Ali Jinnah. [1] Karachi was and still is the largest city and economic capital of Pakistan.
Islamabad (/ ɪ z ˈ l ɑː m ə b æ d / ⓘ; [6] Urdu: اسلامآباد, romanized: Islāmābād, [ɪs.lɑːm.ɑː.bɑːd̪] ⓘ; transl. 'City of Islam') is the capital city of Pakistan. [7] It is the country's tenth-most populous city with a population of 1,108,872 people [ 5 ] [ 8 ] and is federally administered by the Pakistani ...
As of the 2023 Census, there are two megacities, ten million-plus cities, in Pakistan. 128 cities having a population of 100,000 or more. Of these 128 cities, 81 are located in the country's most populous province, Punjab, 23 in Sindh, 13 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 8 in Balochistan, two in Azad Kashmir, and one is the Islamabad Capital Territory ...
Pakistan: Asia: Karachi served as the first capital of Pakistan from 1948. A planned capital, Islamabad, was then designated, and in 1958, as an interim measure, the capital was shifted to Rawalpindi, near to the future capital. Islamabad became capital in 1967 when its construction was completed. Jakarta (de facto) Indonesia
The city saw its first telegraph office in the early 1850s. [44] The city's Garrison Church was built shortly after in 1854, [38] and is the site where Robert Milman, Bishop of Calcutta, was buried following his death in Rawalpindi in 1876. [38] The city was home to 15,913 people in the 1855 census. [41]
The area would consist of the developing Islamabad, the old colonial cantonment city of Rawalpindi, and Margalla Hills National Park, including surrounding rural areas. [32] [33] However, Islamabad city is part of the Islamabad Capital Territory, while Rawalpindi is part of Rawalpindi District, which is part of province of Punjab. [34]
Shakhi Gate, Kulachi, District Dera Ismail Khan. Dera Ismail Khan (/ d eɪ r ʌ-ɪ s m aɪ. iː l-x ɑː n /; Urdu and Saraiki: ڈیرہ اسماعیل خان, Pashto: ډېره اسماعيل خان), abbreviated as D.I. Khan, [3] is a city and capital of Dera Ismail Khan District, located in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Quetta (/ ˈ k w ɛ t ə /; Urdu: کوئٹہ, ko'eṭa, [ˈkweːʈə] ⓘ, Pashto: کوټه) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Balochistan.It is the ninth largest city in Pakistan, with an estimated population of over 1.6 million in 2024. [4]