{"id":1147259,"date":"2026-01-17T11:50:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/?p=1147259"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:50:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:50:38","slug":"standardized-spellings-of-pothwar-river-soan-leh-nala-adopted-in-official-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/standardized-spellings-of-pothwar-river-soan-leh-nala-adopted-in-official-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Standardized spellings of Pothwar, River Soan, Leh Nala adopted in official records"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>RAWALPINDI, Jan 17 (APP):Official records in Rawalpindi now adopt the historically correct spellings of key geographical features, following guidance from renowned historian and archaeologist the late Professor Ahmed Hasan Dani.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A Rawalpindi Commissioner\u2019s Office notification of May 2, 2024, directed the use of \u201cPothwar\u201d, \u201cRiver Soan\u201d and \u201cLeh Nala\u201d instead of previously incorrect variants, after a National Highway Authority notice had referred to \u201cPothohar Avenue\u201d rather than the accurate \u201cPothwar Avenue\u201d.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The junction where three water channels; River Soan, River Korang and Leh Nala, meet at the Soan Bridge on Pothwar Avenue was also renamed \u201cPothwar Sangam\u201d to reflect correct historical and geographical nomenclature.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI, Jan 17 (APP):Official records in Rawalpindi now adopt the historically correct spellings of key geographical features, following guidance from renowned historian and archaeologist the late Professor Ahmed Hasan Dani. A Rawalpindi Commissioner\u2019s Office notification of May 2, 2024, directed the use of \u201cPothwar\u201d, \u201cRiver Soan\u201d and \u201cLeh Nala\u201d instead of previously incorrect variants, after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":693730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_speechable_audio":"","_speechable_word_timings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[4276,4277,4278],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1147259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-domestic","tag-official-records","tag-pothwar","tag-river-soan","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147259"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1147259"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1147259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}