Qazi Abdur Rehman Amritsari

Qazi Abdur Rehman Amritsari (Urdu: قاضی عبد الرحمن امرتسری) was a Pakistani school teacher, author and poet of Urdu language. He was born in 1908 in Amritsar and migrated to Pakistan after Partition of British India. He was the person who proposed the name of the new capital of Pakistan, Islamabad, in 1959.

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

Writing career
He used to write in Daily Nawaiwaqat newspaper.

Books

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