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  • Benazir Bhutto International Airport

    Benazir Bhutto International Airport (Urdu: بینظیر بھٹو بین الاقوامی ہوائی اڈا‎, IATA: ISB, ICAO: OPRN) is the third-largest airport in Pakistan, serving the capital Islamabad and its twin city Rawalpindi in the province of Punjab.

  • Assassination of Benazir Bhutto

    The assassination of Benazir Bhutto occurred on 27 December 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Bhutto, twice Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996) and then-leader of the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party, had been campaigning ahead of electio…

  • Ravi River

    The Ravi (Urdu: راوی‎, Sanskrit: इरावती, परुष्णि, Hindi: रावी, Punjabi: ਰਾਵੀ) is a trans-boundary river flowing through Northwestern India and eastern Pakistan. It is one of the six rivers of the Indus System in Punjab region (name of Punjab means "…

  • Airblue Flight 202

    Airblue Flight 202 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight which crashed on 28 July 2010 near Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, killing all 146 passengers and six crew on board. It is the deadliest air accident to occur in Pakistan to date. The …

  • Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing

    The Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing occurred during the night of 20 September 2008, when a dump truck filled with explosives detonated in front of the Marriott Hotel in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, killing at least 54 people, injuring at least …

  • Gilgit

    Gilgit (Urdu, Shina: گلگت) is the Capital city of Gilgit-Baltistan within the Gilgit district of Pakistan. The city of Gilgit constitutes a tehsil within Gilgit District. The city's ancient name was Sargin, later to be known as Gilit, and it is stil…

  • Battle of Saragarhi

    The Battle of Saragarhi was fought before the Tirah Campaign on 12 September 1897 between twenty-one Sikhs of the 36th Sikhs (now the 4th Battalion of the Sikh Regiment) of British India, defending an army post, and 10,000 Afghan and Orakzai tribesm…

  • Allama Iqbal International Airport

    Allama Iqbal International Airport, IATA: LHE, ICAO: OPLA) is the second largest civil airport in Pakistan, serving Lahore, the capital of Punjab province as well a large portion of the travellers from the Punjab province.

  • Bahria Town

    Bahria Town officially Bahria Town (Pvt) Ltd. is the largest real-estate developers and Investors in Pakistan and the largest private housing society in Asia. Bahria Town has establishments in Islamabad (Phase 2 to 7 and enclave), Rawalpindi (Phase …

  • Trango Towers

    The Trango Towers is family of world tallest rock towers situated in Gilgit-Baltistan, an autonomous territory in the North of Pakistan. Every year, a number of expeditions from all over the world visit Karakoram to climb the most challenging granit…

  • Muzaffarabad

    Muzaffarabad (Urdu: مُظفَّرآباد‎; Pahari, Potwari: مُظفٌر آباد) is the capital of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan.

  • Sutlej

    The Sutlej River (alternatively spelled as Satluj River) (Punjabi: ਸਤਲੁਜ, Hindi: सतलुज, Sanskrit : शतद्रु (shatadru) Urdu: درياۓ ستلُج‎ ) is the longest of the five rivers that flow through the historic crossroads region of Punjab in northern India …

  • Pakistan Military Academy

    The Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul (PMA), also known as PMA Kakul, is a two-year accredited federal service military academy. It is located at Kakul in Abbottabad. The Pakistan Military Academy is similar in function to Sandhurst, Saint-Cyr, and…

  • Chenab River

    The Chenab River (Punjabi: ਚਨਾਬ, چناب, Urdu: درياۓ چناب‎, Hindi: चनाब, (/əˈnɑːb/, canāb) literally: 'Moon (Chan) ਚਨ, चन, چن River (aab) ਆਬ, आब, آب' is a major river of India and Pakistan. It forms in the upper Himalayas in the Lahaul and Spiti dis…

  • Jhelum

    Jhelum /ˈləm/ (Urdu, Punjabi: جہلم) (Greek: Alexandria Bucephalous) is a city on the right bank of the Jhelum River, in the district of the same name in the north of Punjab province, Pakistan. Jhelum is known for providing a large number of sold…

  • Skardu

    Skardu (Urdu: اسکردو, Balti: སྐརདུ་་ from Tibetan (Balti): skar rdo སྐར་རྡོ་ — "star stone, meteorite") is a town and capital of Skardu District, in Gilgit, Pakistan. Skardu is in the 10 kilometres (6 miles) wide by 40 kilometres (25 miles) long Ska…

  • Islamabad Capital Territory

    The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) (Urdu: وفاقی دارالحکومت‎) is one of the two federal territories of Pakistan. It includes Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan, and covers an area of 1,165.5 km² (450 mi²) of which 906 km² (349.8 mi²) is Islam…

  • New Islamabad International Airport

    New Islamabad International Airport or Gandhara International Airport is an under construction international airport near the twin cities of Rawalpindi/Islamabad in Rawalpindi district, Pakistan. Its built to replace the existing Benazir Bhutto Inte…

  • Port Qasim

    The Port Muhammad Bin Qasim (Urdu: بندر گاہ محمد بن قاسمBandar-gāh Muhammad bin Qāsim), also known as Port Qasim, is a deep-water seaport in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, on the coastline of the Arabian Sea. It is Pakistan's second busiest port, handl…

  • Derawar Fort

    Derawar Fort is a large square fortress in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan. The forty bastions of Derawar are visible for many miles in Cholistan Desert. The walls have a circumference of 1500 metres and stand up to thirty metres high.

  • Chitral

    Chitral (Urdu: چترال‎, Khowar: چھترار also spelled as "Kashkar" or Chetrar, translated as field), is the capital of the Chitral District, situated on the western bank of the Chitral River (also called Kunar River), in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. I…

  • Port of Karachi

    The Port of Karachi (Urdu: کراچی بندرگاہBandar gāh Karāchī) is one of the South Asia's largest and busiest deep-water seaports, handling about 60% of the nation's cargo (25 million tons per annum) located in Karachi, Pakistan. It is located betwee…

  • Supreme Court of Pakistan

    The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCOP) (Urdu: عدالت عظمیٰ پاکستان; Adālat-e-Uzma Pākistān) is the apex court in the judicial hierarchy of Pakistan, the final arbiter of legal and constitutional disputes. The Supreme Court has a permanent seat in Islam…

  • University of Karachi

    The University of Karachi (Urdu: جامعۂ كراچى‎; or KU) is a public research university located in the neighborhood of Gulshan-e-Iqbal of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is one of the oldest universities in Pakistan and ranked among the top ten universit…

  • Bhong Mosque

    Bhong Mosque (Urdu: بھونگ مسجد‎) is located in the village of Bhong, Sadiqabad Tehsil, Rahim Yar Khan District, Southern Punjab Pakistan. It was designed and constructed over a period of nearly 50 years (1932–1982) and won the Aga Khan Award for Arc…

  • Rohtas Fort

    Rohtas Fort (Urdu: قلعہ روہتاسQila Rohtas) is a historical garrison fort located near the city of Jhelum in Punjab, Pakistan. It was built by Raja Todar Mal, under the orders of the Afghan king Sher Shah Suri, to subdue the rebellious tribes of th…

  • Shalimar Gardens, Lahore

    The Shalimar Gardens (Punjabi, Urdu: شالیمار باغ‎), sometimes written as Shalamar Gardens, is a Mughal garden complex located in Lahore, Pakistan. Construction began in 1641 AD (1051 AH) and was completed the following year. The project management w…

  • Kasur

    Kasur or Qasur (Urdu: قصُور‎), (Punjabi: قصور), is the headquarters of Kasur District, Pakistan. Bordered to the north by Lahore, by India to the south and east, the city is adjacent to the border of Ganda Singh Wala, a border with its own flag-lowe…

  • The Centaurus

    The Centaurus is a mixed use real estate development in Islamabad, Pakistan. Designed by British architectural firm WS Atkins, it comprises three skyscrapers, containing corporate offices, residential apartments and a 5-star hotel. The tallest skysc…