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Abdur Rahmān Bābā (1653–1711) (Pashto: عبدالرحمان بابا ), or Rahmān Bābā (Pashto: رحمان بابا ), was a Pashtun poet from Peshawar in the Mughal Empire (modern-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan). He, along with his contemporary Khushal Khan Khattak, is considered...

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Tag(s) : #Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, #Pashto Academy, #Rahman Baba, #John Rylands Library, #Khushal Khan Khattak, #Pakistan, #Peshawar, #Rahman

Asfandyar Wali Khan (Pashto: اسفند یار ولی خان ) (born 19 February 1949) is a democratic socialist and the current the President of the Awami National Party in Pakistan. His father, Khan Abdul Wali Khan, was the party's first President. He is the grandson...

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Tag(s) : #National Assembly, #Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, #Khan Abdul Wali Khan, #Awami National Party, #ABDUL GHAFFAR KHAN, #Pakistan, #Asfandyar Wali Khan, #Nasim Wali Khan

Naseerullah Khan Babar (Urdu: نصيرالله خان بابر; born 1928—10 January 2011) is famous because of Operation against terrorists in Karachi. He was a retired 2-star rank general officer in the Pakistan Army, and later career military officer-turned statesman...

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Tag(s) : #Pakistan Army, #Naseerullah Babar, #Pakistan People, #Burn Hall School, #Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, #Pakistan, #Karachi, #Benazir Bhutto

Afaq Ahmed (Urdu: افاق احمد ; born April 22, 1962 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan) is a Pakistani politician from Karachi who is the founder of the Muhajir Qaumi Movement (Haqiqi) (MQM-H) political party, a break-off faction of the much larger Muttahida Qaumi...

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Tag(s) : #Altaf Hussain, #Muttahida Qaumi Movement, #Muhajir Qaumi Movement, #Sindh High Court, #Pakistan, #Karachi, #Afaq Ahmed, #Sindh

Kashgar or Kashi is an oasis county-level city with approximately 350,000 residents in the western extremity of the People's Republic of China, near the border with Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Kashgar is the administrative centre of Kashgar Prefecture...

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Tag(s) : #Tajikistan, #Xinjiang, #Simplified Chinese characters, #Traditional Chinese characters, #Kashgar, #China, #Uyghur, #Han Dynasty

Gilgit–Baltistan (Urdu: گلگت بلتستان , Balti: གིལྒིཏ་བལྟིསྟན, formerly known as the Northern Areas [4] ) is the northernmost administrative territory of Pakistan. [5] It borders the administrative territory of Azad Kashmir to the south, the province of...

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Tag(s) : #Xinjiang, #Gilgit Agency, #Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, #Kashmir, #Durrani Empire, #Baltistan, #Gilgit–Baltistan, #Pakistan

The Karakoram Highway (KKH) is the highest paved international road in the world. [1] It connects China and Pakistan across the Karakoram mountain range, through the Khunjerab Pass, at an elevation of 4,693 m/15,397 ft as confirmed by both SRTM and multiple...

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Tag(s) : #Pakistan Army, #Khunjerab Pass, #Gilgit, #China, #Karakoram, #Pakistan, #Frontier Works Organisation, #Karakoram Highway

View of the mosque made of salt bricks inside the khewra salt mines complex. The Khewra Salt Mine (or Mayo Salt Mine) is located in Khewra, north of Pind Dadan Khan, [1] an administrative subdivision of Jhelum District, Punjab, Pakistan. It is Pakistan's...

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Tag(s) : #Pind Dadan Khan, #Sikh, #Salt Range, #Hari Singh Nalwa, #Khewra Salt Mine, #Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation, #Pakistan, #Jhelum District

Lawrence College Ghora Gali (or GG) is situated in the foothills of the Himalayas and Pir Panjal at a height of about 1950 meters (6395 feet) above sea level, on a pine covered spur, covering an area of 150 acres. GG is 4 km from Murree Town and 57 km...

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Tag(s) : #Ghora Gali, #Zafarullah Khan Jamali, #Junior School, #Jinnah House, #Pakistan, #Lawrence College Ghora Gali, #Punjab, #Murree

Bari Imam (1617–1705), or Shah Abdul Latif Kazmi, is the patron saint of Islamabad and the greater Pothohar region. History Bari Imam (1617–1705), whose real name was Shah Abdul Latif Kazmi, was born in 1026 Hijra (1617 AD) in Jhelum. His father, Syed...

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Tag(s) : #Islamabad, #Islam, #Religion and Spirituality, #Imam, #Terrorism, #Bari Imam, #Saudi Arabia, #Jhelum District