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The National Highway 05 or the N-5 is Pakistan's longest highway running from the port city of Karachi to the border crossing at Torkham. Its total length is 1756 km [2] and it runs north from Karachi located in Sindh province to Hyderabad, Moro and Khairpur...

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Tag(s) : #Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, #Federally Administered Tribal Areas, #Pakistan, #Karachi, #Attock Khurd, #Peshawar, #Grand Trunk Road, #Sindh

Ali Masjid is the narrowest point of the Khyber Pass. It is located in the Khyber Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Pakistan. It is located around 10 miles (16 km) east of the city of Landi Kotal (West of Peshawar) and has an elevation...

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Tag(s) : #Second Anglo-Afghan War, #Peshawar Valley Field Force, #Khyber Pass, #Pakistan, #Landi Kotal, #Peshawar, #Ali Masjid, #Samuel Browne

The Pamir Mountains are a mountain range in Central Asia formed by the junction or knot of the Himalayas, Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun, and Hindu Kush ranges. They are among the world’s highest mountains, and since Victorian times, they have been known...

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Tag(s) : #Tajikistan, #Kongur Tagh, #Wakhan Corridor, #Tarim Basin, #Hindu Kush, #Tian Shan, #Kunlun Mountains, #Pamir Mountains

Landi Kotal or Landikotal (Urdu: لنڈی کوتل ) is a town of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. It is located at 34°6'4N 71°8'44E [1] and lies on the Khyber Pass in the Khyber Agency. At 1,072 metres above sea level it is the highest point...

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Tag(s) : #Khyber Pass, #Khyber Rifles, #Khyber Agency, #Afghanistan, #Pakistan, #Landi Kotal, #Peshawar, #Afridi

Torkham (Pashto: تورخم Tūrkham ) is a border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan right on the Durand Line border. It connects Nangarhar province of Afghanistan with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. It is the busiest port of entry between the two...

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Tag(s) : #Khyber Pass, #Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, #NATO, #Durand Line, #Afghanistan, #Pakistan, #Karachi, #Torkham

Ansar Abbasi Column on Najam Sethi

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Tag(s) : #Punjab Pakistan, #Lahore, #Pakistan Muslim League (N), #Ansar Abbasi Column on Najam Sethi, #Najam Sethi, #Rana Sanaullah Khan, #Pakistan Peoples Party, #Chief Minister, #Chief Minister of Punjab Pakistan

Gwadar Port (Photo credit: Haseeb ANSAR) According to media news Pakistan is handing over responsibility of its strategic Gawader port to Chinese company .The Gwadar port in Pakistan ’s western province of Baluchistan was built in 2007 with the help of...

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Tag(s) : #Port, #Gwadar Port, #China, #Gwadar, #Balochistan Pakistan, #Pakistan, #Karachi, #Singapore

Interior of Mohabat Khan's Mosque The Mahabat Khan Mosque (Urdu, Pashto: مہابت خان مسجد) is a 17th century mosque in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is named after the Mughal governor of Peshawar Nawab Mahabat Khan who served under Emperors...

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Tag(s) : #Lahore, #Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, #Aurangzeb, #Urdu, #Pakistan, #Mahabat Khan, #Peshawar, #Mosque

The Kissa Khwani Bazaar (Pashto:کيسه خوانې بازار, Urdu: قصه خواني بازار ) (or 'Market of Story-tellers') is a bazaar of Peshawar, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (then N.-W.F.) province Gazetteer, [1] traveller Lowell...

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Tag(s) : #Lowell Thomas, #Central Asia, #Suicide attack, #Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, #Frontier Constabulary, #Urdu, #Pakistan, #Peshawar, #The Kissa Khwani Bazaar

Sheesh Mahal, Amber Fort The Sheesh Mahal (The Palace of Mirrors; Urdu: شيون كا محل ) is located within the Shah Burj block in northern-western corner of Lahore Fort. It was constructed under the reign of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in 1631-32. The ornate...

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Tag(s) : #Lahore Fort, #Shah Jahan, #Taj Mahal, #Urdu, #Akbar, #Naulakha Pavilion, #Sheesh Mahal, #Agra Fort