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The headquarters of the Pakistan Army, which are known as the General Headquarters (GHQ), are located in the Rawalpindi cantonment. [1] Rawalpindi cantonment is part of Rawalpindi Metropolitan city Population 3,461,806(2017) It is situated on the Grand Trunk Road on Railway Line 1, the main railway line of the country. The town has its own ...
Postal codes in Pakistan were introduced on 1 January 1988 to speed sortation and delivery. Pakistan have 5 digits code . [1] and These codes are for the delivery post office in whose jurisdiction the residential, office, industrial, rural, or PO Box address falls. Non-delivery post offices also are assigned pseudo-codes for audit and ...
Saddar, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, is the main commercial hub of Rawalpindi Cantonment. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] It is located between the Mall road and the main railway lines ...
Rawalpindi's Fatima Jinnah Women University is housed in a Victorian mansion. Following Rawalpindi's capture by the British East India Company, 53rd Regiment of the company army took quarters in the newly captured city. [37] The decision to man a permanent military cantonment in the city was made in 1851 by the Marquess of Dalhousie. [37]
Before 2002, Rawalpindi Cantonment was the largest of all cantonments in Pakistan which was creating administrative problems in providing municipal services due to rapid urban growth. Chaklala Airbase, recently renamed as PAF Base Nur Khan , is an important air base of the Pakistan Air Force.
"North-western Tehsil of Rawalpindi District, Punjab, lying between 33°19' and 33°50' N. and 72°34' and 73°23' E., with an area of 764 square miles (1,980 km 2). The population in 1901 was 261,101, compared with 243,141 in 1891. The tahsil contains the town and cantonment of RAWALPINDI (population, 87,688), the headquarters ; and 448 villages.
Lalkurti (literally red shirt; referring to British Infantry "Red coats" from colonial era), is a locality in the heart of Rawalpindi cantonment in Pakistan.Places with the same name are also found in many other garrison cities of Pakistan and India, such as Peshawar, Lahore, Kanpur, Ambala, Meerut and Delhi.
Rawalpindi District (Punjabi and Urdu: ضِلع راولپِنڈى) is a district located in the northernmost part of the Punjab province of Pakistan. Parts of the district form part of the Islamabad Rawalpindi metropolitan area .