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  • Abbasi Shaheed Hospital

    Abbasi Shaheed Hospital is a teaching hospital located in Paposh Nagar neighborhood of Nazimabad, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. This public hospital was constructed in the early 1970s and serves the residents of northern part of the city (Nazimabad, Nor…

  • 2010 Lakki Marwat suicide bombing

    The 2010 Lakki Marwat suicide bombing was a suicide blast which occurred on 1 January 2010, in the village of Shah Hasan Khel, Lakki Marwat District, in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. At least 105 people died and over 100 were injured,…

  • 2009 Khyber Pass offensive

    The 2009 Khyber Pass offensive was an offensive military campaign by Pakistani Army against Islamic militants from Lashkar-e-Islam in and near the Khyber Pass. The offensive was launched after a series of suicide bombings, including one at a police …

  • Walton Airport

    Walton Airport (ICAO: OPLH) is old airport of the city of Lahore. It is used for domestic flights. It is situated near Model Town, 10 km (6 mi) from the city centre of Lahore, in Punjab province of Pakistan. It caters to general aviation and is used…

  • Sujawal

    Sujawal (Urdu: سجاول‎), is an historical and a densely populated city. Sujawal population is about 800,000. Previously, it was old Taluka of Thatta District, Sindh, Pakistan. The Government of Sindh has granted Sujawal the status of a district and a…

  • Simly Dam

    Simly Dam is an 80 meters (260 ft) high earthen embankment dam on the Soan River, 30 kilometers (19 mi) east of Islamabad and Rawalpindi in Rawalpindi District, Punjab, Pakistan. It is the largest reservoir of drinking water to people living in Isla…

  • Shahdadkot

    Shahdadkot (Urdu: شهداد كوٹ‎, شهداد ڪوٽ) is the most populated town of Qambar Shahdadkot District of Sindh, Pakistan. Most of the land around Shahdadkot belonged to Khuhawar's, Hindus, Seelra community. Khuhawar tribe is known for its generous contr…

  • Satghara

    Satghara (Urdu: ستگهره‎), is a town and union council of Okara District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located at 30°55'0N 73°31'0E with an altitude of 164 metres (541 feet) and is also the location of the tomb of Baloch folk hero, Mir Ch…

  • Sakesar

    Sakesar (Urdu: سكيسر‎), is a mountain peak which lies on the outer fringes of the Soon Valley in Khushab district in the Punjab Province of Pakistan. It has an height of 1522 m and used to be the summer headquarters for the deputy commissioners of t…

  • Riwat

    Riwat (Rawat, Murree) is a Lower Paleolithic site in Punjab, northern Pakistan, providing evidence of Homo occupation that is among the earliest outside Africa, dating to 1.9 million years ago. The site was discovered in 1983. The artifacts which co…

  • Peshawar Division

    Peshawar Division was an administrative division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan until the reforms of 2000 abolished the third tier of government. At independence in 1947, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (then North-West Frontier Province) was split…

  • Pearl Continental hotel bombing

    The Pearl Continental hotel bombing occurred on 9 June 2009 in Peshawar, Pakistan, in which 17 people were killed and at least 46 people injured. The blast occurred at the five-star Pearl Continental hotel in the city. The force of the explosion cau…

  • Matore

    Matore is a village, surrounded by hills, in the heart of Kahuta Tehsil a subdivision of Rawalpindi District, in the Punjab province of Pakistan.

  • Makra Peak

    Makra is a scenic peak in the Hazara region of the Himalayas in northern Pakistan. It is 4,000 metres (13,123 ft) high and almost 200 km from Islamabad on Naran Road. From Kiwai a single 7-KM road goes upwards to Shogran, a tourist place with plenty…

  • Lund Khwar

    Lund Khwar, also Lundkhwar (Pashto: لوند خوړ) | Urdu: لوندخوڑ) and pronounced "/Lu:/+/nd/, /Kh/+/va'/+/r:/" is a historical village and union council of Takht Bhai Tehsil in Mardan District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is located at 34°23'22…

  • Latifabad

    Latifabad (Urdu: لطِيف آباد‎), is a town in the southern suburbs of the city of Hyderabad, in Sindh, Pakistan.

  • Kulachi

    Kulachi ( کلا چی) is a town named after the Kulachi Baloch tribe and is the headquarters of Kulachi Tehsil (an administrative subdivision) of Dera Ismail Khan District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located at (31°55′49″N70°27′31″…

  • Khunyang Chhish

    Khunyang Chhish or Kunyang Chhish is the second-highest mountain in the Hispar Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram mountains of Pakistan. Alternate variations of the name include Kunyang Kish and Khiangyang Kish, among others. Its height is also so…

  • Kharadar

    Kharadar (Urdu: کھارادر ‎) is one of the neighbourhoods of Saddar Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Kharadar literally means Brackish Gate in both Sindhi and Urdu, and was the name of one of two gates to the old city of Karachi built in 1729 - the o…

  • Karambar Lake

    Karambar Lake (also known as Qurumbar Lake) is a high altitude lake located in Ishkomen, a Tehsil of District Ghizer in Gilgit–Baltistan, near the boundary of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan.

  • Hyderabad Airport (Sindh)

    The Hyderabad Airport (IATA: HDD, ICAO: OPKD) of Pakistan is a domestic airport in Hyderabad, the second-largest city in the Sindh province. It is very close to the Pakistan Army's Sindh Regimental Centre and the HDA Kohsar Housing Society.

  • Hingol River

    Hingol River or Hungol River (Urdu: دریائے ہنگول‎) is located in the Makran region, in the Gwadar District of southeastern Balochistan Province, in southwestern Pakistan.

  • Hindu Raj

    The Hindu Raj is a mountain range in northern Pakistan, between the Hindu Kush and the Karakoram ranges. Its highest peak is Koyo Zom, 6,872 m (22,546 ft). Other notable peaks include Buni Zom and Ghamubar Zom.

  • Hattar

    Hattar is one of the 44 union councils, administrative subdivisions, of Haripur District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

  • Frontier Region Lakki Marwat

    The Frontier Region Lakki Marwat (often abbreviated as FR Lakki Marwat) is a small administrative unit in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan. The region is named after Lakki Marwat District which lies to the northeast. It is …

  • Dudipatsar

    Dudiptsar Lake or Dudipat Lake is a lake encircled by snow clad peaks in Lulusar-Dudipatsar National Park. The lake lies in the extreme north of the Kaghan Valley, in the Mansehra District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in northern Pakistan. The word…

  • Besham

    Besham (also known as Besham Qala) is the largest town and commercial centre of the Shangla District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

  • Bara River

    Bara River (Pashto: باړه سیند; Urdu: دریائے باڑہ ‎) is a river in Khyber Agency and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The Bara River originates in the Tirah Valley of Bara Tehsil, Khyber Agency. It joins the Kabul River Canal which originates from the …

  • Athmuqam

    Athmuqam or Athmakam (Urdu: آٹھمقام ‎) is a town about 73 kilometres from Muzaffarabad, in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. It is the headquarters of Neelum District.