Portal:Pakistan
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Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 242 million, and has the world's second-largest Muslim population. Pakistan is the 33rd-largest country by area, spanning 881,913 square kilometres (340,509 square miles). It has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China to the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the north, and also shares a maritime border with Oman.
Pakistan is the site of several ancient cultures, including the 8,500-year-old Neolithic site of Mehrgarh in Balochistan, and the Indus Valley civilisation of the Bronze Age, the most extensive of the civilisations of the Afro-Eurasia. The region that comprises the modern state of Pakistan was the realm of multiple empires and dynasties, including the Achaemenid; briefly that of Alexander the Great; the Seleucid, the Maurya, the Kushan, the Gupta; the Umayyad Caliphate in its southern regions, the Hindu Shahis, the Ghaznavids, the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughals, the Durranis, the Sikh Empire, British East India Company rule, and most recently, the British Indian Empire from 1858 to 1947. (Full article...)
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Sheesh Mahal is located, near City of Lahore in Pakistan
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Jehangir's Tomb at Shahdara near Lahore. It is the mausoleum built for the Mughal Emperor Jahangir who ruled from 1605 to 1627. The mausoleum is located near the town of Shahdara Bagh in Lahore, Pakistan. His son Shah Jahan built the mausoleum 10 years after his father's death. It is sited in an attractive walled garden. Photo credit: Waqas Usman | |
General images
Pakistan map of climate classification zones (from Geography of Pakistan)
Dust storm over Pakistan and surrounding countries, 7 April 2005 (from Geography of Pakistan)
Much of Karachi's skyline is decentralized, with some growth in traditionally suburban areas. (from Karachi)
Some of Karachi's most recognized structures, such as Frere Hall, date from the British Raj. (from Karachi)
Abdullah Shah Ghazi, an 8th Century Sufi mystic, is the patron saint of Karachi. (from Karachi)
The famous "Priest-King" statue of the Indus Valley civilization is displayed at Karachi's National Museum of Pakistan. (from Karachi)
St. Patrick's Cathedral, built-in 1881, serves as the seat of the Archdiocese of Karachi. (from Karachi)
The D. J. Sindh Government Science College is one of Karachi's oldest universities and dates from 1887. (from Karachi)
The Port of Karachi is one of South Asia's largest and busiest deep-water seaports. (from Karachi)
Satellite view of Karachi 2010 (from Karachi)
The Arabian Sea influences Karachi's climate, providing the city with more moderate temperatures compared to the interior Sindh province. (from Karachi)
The 17th-century Badshahi Mosque built by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in Lahore (from Culture of Pakistan)
Greeline Metrobus Station (from Karachi)
The Karachi Chamber of Commerce Building. Central Karachi features several such buildings dating from the colonial era. (from Karachi)
Karachi Circular Railway (from Karachi)
K2, at 8,619 metres (28,251 ft), is the world's second highest peak (from Geography of Pakistan)
The Swaminarayan Temple is the largest Hindu temple in Karachi. (from Karachi)
Flag of Pakistan (from Pakistanis)
Muhammad Iqbal was the ideological father of Pakistan (from Culture of Pakistan)
Hawke's Bay, west of Karachi (from Karachi)
The former State Bank of Pakistan building was built during the colonial era. (from Karachi)
Topography of Pakistan (from Geography of Pakistan)
Satellite image of the Sulaiman Range (from Geography of Pakistan)
The Manora Fort, built-in 1797 to defend Karachi, was captured by the British on 3 February 1839 and upgraded 1888–1889. (from Karachi)
The former US Embassy, designed by modernist architect Richard Neutra (from Karachi)
A sitar workshop in Islamabad, Pakistan. (from Culture of Pakistan)
Nagan Chowrangi interchange is a major intersection in northern Karachi. (from Karachi)
Men dressed in Shalwar kameez in a general store on the road to Kalash, Pakistan (from Pakistanis)
Karachi's Jinnah International Airport is the busiest and second largest airport in Pakistan. (from Karachi)
Habib University is a liberal arts college in Karachi. (from Karachi)
Distribution of Pakistani diasporaPakistan+ 1,000,000+ 100,000+ 10,000+ 1,000(from Pakistanis)
A traditional cup of black tea (from Culture of Pakistan)
Built as a home for a wealthy Hindu businessman, the Mohatta Palace is now a museum open to the public. (from Karachi)
Clifton Skyline at night (from Karachi)
Karachi features several examples of colonial-era Indo-Saracenic architecture, such as the KMC Building. (from Karachi)
Clockwise from top:(from Karachi)
Mazar-e-Quaid, Hawke's Bay Beach, Frere Hall, Karachi Port Trust Building, Mohatta Palace, Port of Karachi
Muslim girl wearing Shalwar kameez, c. 1870 (from Culture of Pakistan)
Built by Hindus under British rule, the Gymkhana Building was repurposed to house the National Academy of Performing Arts. (from Karachi)
Karachi's Cantonment railway station is one of the city's primary transport hubs. (from Karachi)
Karachi is home to large numbers of descendants of refugees and migrants from Hyderabad, in southern India, who built a small replica of Hyderabad's famous Charminar monument in Karachi's Bahadurabad area. (from Karachi)
Lord Mountbatten and his wife Edwina in Karachi 14 August 1947 (from Karachi)
Seekh kebab – one of the famous Pakistani food specialities (from Culture of Pakistan)
Lyari Expressway Interchange (from Karachi)
The Tooba Mosque. Karachi saw construction of several such modernist style buildings in the 1950s and 1960s. (from Karachi)
The National Stadium in Karachi (from Karachi)
The 15th–18th century Chaukhandi tombs are located 29 km (18 mi) east of Karachi. (from Karachi)
The Lahore Fort, a landmark built during the Mughal era, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site (from Culture of Pakistan)
An example of Pakistani masala chai. (from Culture of Pakistan)
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This week in history
- 8 October 2005: The Kashmir earthquake (also known as the South Asia earthquake or the Great Pakistan earthquake) of 2005, was a major earthquake, of which the epicentre was the Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The earthquake occurred at 08:50:38 Pakistan Standard Time (03:50:38 UTC) on 8 October 2005. It registered 7.6 on the richter scale making it a major earthquake similar in intensity to the 1935 Quetta earthquake, the 2001 Gujarat earthquake, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The Pakistani government's official death toll was 73,276, while officials say nearly 1,400 people died in Jammu and Kashmir and fourteen people in Afghanistan. Most of the affected people lived in mountainous regions with access impeded by landslides that blocked the roads, leaving an estimated 3.3 million homeless in Pakistan.
Provinces and Territories
Clickable map of the four provinces and three federal territories of Pakistan.
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Muhammad Ishaq Dar (Urdu: محمد اسحاق ڈار; born c. 1950) is a Pakistani accountant and former politician who served as the Finance Minister of Pakistan. He is a member of Senate of Pakistan and is currently based in the United Kingdom. Previously, he had been a Member of the Senate of Pakistan from 2003 to 2018. He is a former Minister for Industries and Investment, Minister for Commerce and four-time Minister for Finance of Pakistan.
Born in 1950 and grew up in Lahore, Dar was educated at the Hailey College of Commerce, Government College University, later attending the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Prior to entering politics, he worked as a professional chartered accountant in various private and public sector organizations. (Full article...)Did you know?
- ... that Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau, the famous German–Pakistani Catholic nun who devoted more than 55 years of her life to fighting leprosy was the first Christian and first non-Muslim to have a state funeral in Pakistan? (2 September 2021)
- ... that Lahore Metrobus open in 2013, was modelled after the Istanbul Bus Rapid Transit System. Plans were developed in the last quarter of 2011 by both local and Turkish experts.[1] (31 August 2021)
- ... that Lahore Knowledge Park is an actualization of Triple Helix configuration; a framework to create synergies between government, academia and industry to operate into an interactive rather than linear model for the establishment of social formats and entities to promote commercial innovation and R&D. [2] (27 January, 2017)
- ... that Multan Sultans is the most expensive franchise team of Pakistan Super League? (04 December, 2017)
- ... that Sialkot is the world's largest producer of hand-sewed footballs, with local factories manufacturing 40~60 million footballs a year, amounting to roughly 60% of world production. (4 December, 2017)
- ... that Hafiz Muhammad Fazal Azim Taha, the famous living Pakistani poet said about Iqbal's work that "He not only dreamed for Pakistan but also got the nation up for their rights". This famous saying is regarded as Iqbal's definition. (14 July, 2014)
- ... that Tajammul Hussain Malik headed an unsuccessful coup attempt against Pakistani dictator General Zia-ul-Haq in 1980? (22 September, 2009)
- ... that the Legal Framework Order, 1970, issued by Gen. Yahya Khan, set the rules for the first direct popular elections in the history of Pakistan? (14 September 2009)
- ... that in 1881 in the village of Bakhshali in northern Pakistan, the Bakhshali manuscript, the oldest surviving example of Indian mathematics, was discovered written on birch bark? (1 September 2008)
- ... that the original images of Lord Swaminarayan at the Shri Swaminarayan Temple in Karachi, Pakistan were removed and taken to India during the turbulent times of its partition? (1 September 2008)
- ... that Saudi Arabia promised to supply 50,000 barrels of free oil per day to help Pakistan if economic sanctions were imposed after its 1998 nuclear tests? (1 September 2008)
- ... that in a major improvement in bilateral relations in 2008, Pakistan proposed sharing nuclear technology with Bangladesh? (31 August, 2008)
- ... that Abdur Rashid Kardar, a pioneer of the Pakistani film industry in Lahore, was a calligraphist who prepared posters for foreign-made films? (11 July 2008)
- ... that the Nigar Awards are the oldest awards of merit in the Pakistani film industry? (10 July 2008)
- ... that Syed Wajid Ali was the longest serving President of the Pakistan Olympic Association with a tenure of 26 years? (7 July 2008)
- ... that the 1948 film Teri Yaad was the first feature film to be released in Pakistan after the partition of India? (6 July 2008)
- ... that The Edhi Foundation, founded by Edhi, runs the world's largest volunteer ambulance service operating 1,800 of them with upto 6,000 a day in Karachi alone. (4 December 2017)
Pakistan news
- 1 August 2022 –
- A Pakistan Army Aviation Corps helicopter carrying several senior Pakistan Army officials crashes in Balochistan, Pakistan. Rescuers have not yet reached the crash site due to ongoing floods in the region. (India Today)
- 30 July 2022 – Insurgency in Balochistan
- Six Balochistan Liberation Army separatists and a Pakistani soldier are killed during clashes in Kech District, Balochistan, Pakistan. (AP)
- 21 July 2022 – 2022 Pakistan floods
- At least 304 people are killed after five weeks of monsoon rains and flash floods in Pakistan. (AP)
- 18 July 2022 – Sadiqabad boat sinking
- Twenty people are killed and 30 others are missing after a boat capsizes in Sadiqabad, Punjab, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
- 15 July 2022 – Insurgency in Balochistan
- Nine Balochistan Liberation Army separatist insurgents are killed during a gunfight with the Pakistan Army in Balochistan, after the group kidnapped and killed a colonel. (AP)
- 9 July 2022 – 2022 Pakistan floods; 2022 Quetta floods
- At least 57 people are killed by floods in Balochistan (mostly in Quetta) and two others are killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
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| “ | There is no power on Earth that can undo Pakistan. | ” |
| — Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Founder of Pakistan) | ||
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Sources
- ^ Mahendra, Anjali. "The Metro Bus System comes to Lahore, Pakistan". TheCityFix. World Resources Institute. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
- ^ "Lahore Knowledge Park Company".
