Islamabad, Pakistan The city’s site was chosen by a commission in 1959 afterKarachiwas found unsuitable as the capital. Construction began in 1961 with an effort to blend traditionalIslamic architecturewith modern patterns and requirements. Such world-renowned names intown planningand architecture as...
Pashto is the main language in the province, except for some areas where Punjabi predominates, and virtually all of the population is Muslim. Only a small part of the overall population is urban. The province’s major cities include Peshawar, Mardan, Mingaora, Kohat, and Abbottabad. ...
Pakistan Road Map. 1:2,000,000. Pakistan Survey, 6th edition, 2006. This is a good quality road map with a distance chart and index to cities and towns. 35 x 43 inches, folded. NOTE: These are original printed paper maps, not scanned images nor color plots. ...
Urdu is called alingua franca, a language that is spoken and understood by most people in the country. Urdu is closely to related to Hindi. English is the main language in all schools in Pakistan. There are about sixty languages spoken in Pakistan. Punjabi or Pashto, Sindhi, Saraiki and B...
Hybrid map combines high-resolution satellite images with detailed street map overlay. Satellite Map High-resolution aerial and satellite imagery. No text labels.Search within Punjab Enter the name and choose a location from the list. Search for cities, towns, hotels, airports or other regions or...
The cities of central Punjab, as well as Quetta and Karachi, are at particular risk from Sunni-Shia violence. You should be particularly vigilant during the Shia Islamic holy month of Muharram which ends on 18 February 2007, as militants have used such occasions to mount attacks in the past...
OrFrank Musgrave, a navigator with RAF Bomber Command, writing about missions over Germany that same year: These German cities were simply coordinates on a map of Europe, the first relatively near, involving around six hours of flying, the second depressingly distant, involving some eight or nine...
What are the main causes of pollution in Pakistan? There are numerous causes of pollution across the major cities of Pakistan, with some of them being more of a year-round constant, such as the pollution put out by vehicles and factories, and others being seasonal such as the stubble burnin...
The Indus civilization is known to have consisted of two large cities, Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, and more than 100 towns and villages, often of relatively small size. The two cities were each perhaps originally about 1 mile (1.6 km) square in overall dimensions, and their outstanding magnitude...
The settled areas include lowland tribes subject to direct administration by the provincial government. The main tribes there are, from south to north, the Banūchī and Khaṭak, from the Kurram River toNowshera, and the Khalīl and Mandāṇ in the Vale of Peshawar. The cities ofKandahār...