Rawalpindi (pak)

Rawalpindi

Rawalpindi ranks 1,844th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Newport, Wales, Sint-Truiden, and Emden. Memorable people born in Rawalpindi include Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Balraj Sahni, and Sultan Rahi. Memorable people who died in Rawalpindi include Benazir Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Liaquat Ali Khan. Rawalpindi has been the birth place of many actors, and writers and the death place of many politicians, and athletes. Rawalpindi is located in Pakistan.

Rawalpindi is the third-largest city in the Pakistani province of Punjab. It is a commercial and metropolitan city, being the fourth most populous in Pakistan. It is located near the Soan River in north-western Punjab, and is the third-largest Punjabi-speaking city in the world. Rawalpindi is situated adjacent to Pakistan's capital Islamabad, and the two are jointly known as "twin cities" because of the social and economic links between them. Prior to Islamabad's establishment, Rawalpindi served as the country's capital from 1959 to 1967. Read more on Wikipedia