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Rawalpindi

[ rah-wuhl-pin-dee ]

noun

  1. a city in N Pakistan: former provisional capital.


Rawalpindi

/ rɔːlˈpɪndɪ /

noun

  1. an ancient city in N Pakistan: interim capital of Pakistan (1959–67) during the building of Islamabad. Pop: 1 794 000 (2005 est)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

One of the two brothers would travel as far as Peshawar or even Rawalpindi to use a pay phone.

KSM, for example, was caught in Rawalpindi in 2003 and Zubaydah was caught a year earlier in Faisalabad.

A comfortable home in a military cantonment in the city of Rawalpindi.

A gutsy attack and hostage-taking at the general headquarters of the Pakistan Army in Rawalpindi brought us new boogeymen.

The railway to Rawalpindi, and a driving road thence to Srinagar make the valley easy of access.

By the Kashmir route Gilgit is 400 m. from the rail-head at Rawalpindi.

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