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Lyallpur

[ lahy-uhl-poor ]

noun

  1. a city in NE Pakistan.


Lyallpur

/ ˌlaɪəlˈpʊə /

noun

  1. the former name (until 1979) of Faisalabad
“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

From her scrupulously recorded notes, we learn this man was a farmer from Lyallpur district, now heading to India with his sick wife on his shoulders.

From Time

In hitherto peaceful districts like Montgomery and Lyallpur there is not one town which has not been a battlefield.

Refugees from Lyallpur in West Punjab say that so many Sikhs and Hindus were murdered and their bodies thrown into the canal that the canal actually had a pinkish color for a day after.

A round-the-clock curfew was in effect there and in Lyallpur and troops had orders to shoot to kill all violators.

Though everything about the trial is shrouded in secrecy, it was learned last week that the proceedings are being held in a new, one-story red-brick jail in the textile city of Lyallpur, 150 miles south of Rawalpindi.

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