{"id":95491,"date":"2022-04-09T12:08:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T12:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/?p=95491"},"modified":"2022-04-09T12:08:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T12:08:01","slug":"what-is-the-old-name-of-karachi-in-urdu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/what-is-the-old-name-of-karachi-in-urdu\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the old name of Karachi in Urdu?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A. Karanchi<\/strong><br \/>\nB. Kalachi<br \/>\nC. Karanching<br \/>\nD. None of these<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Etymology. Before independence, the city was widely known as\u00a0<b>Karanchi<\/b>\u00a0in Urdu, though the English spelling Karachi became more popular over time. Modern Karachi was reputedly founded in 1729 as the settlement of Kolachi-jo-Goth during the rule of Kalhora dynasty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A. Karanchi B. Kalachi C. Karanching D. None of these Explanation: Etymology. Before independence, the city was widely known as\u00a0Karanchi\u00a0in Urdu, though the English spelling Karachi became more popular over time. Modern Karachi was reputedly founded in 1729 as the settlement of Kolachi-jo-Goth during the rule of Kalhora dynasty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280],"tags":[27800],"class_list":{"0":"post-95491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geography-mcqs","8":"tag-cities"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}