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• The Khewra Salt Mine

  26 March 2013 ( #Pind Dadan Khan, #Sikh, #Salt Range, #Hari Singh Nalwa, #Khewra Salt Mine, #Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation, #Pakistan, #Jhelum District )

  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...

• Karachi in Pictures

  26 March 2013 ( #Provinces, #Altaf Hussain, #Supreme Court of Pakistan, #Muttahida Qaumi Movement, #Asia, #Pakistan, #Karachi, #Sindh )

  The skyline of Karachi Karachi had become a bustling metropolis with beautiful classical and colonial European styled buildings, lining the city’s thoroughfares. Karachi was chosen as the capital of Pakistan. Nagan Interchange at North Nazimabad, Karachi...

• Lahore in Pictures

  26 March 2013 ( #Provinces, #Lahore, #National College of Arts, #Asia, #Government College University, #Pakistan, #Business and Economy, #Punjab )

  Badshahi Mosque, Lahore Lahore fort English: University of Education Lower Mall Lahore Campus English: Mosque at Lahore The Lahore Ring Road, currently under construction, 2009 Food street Lahore A busy road in Lahore, Pakistan English: Punjab University...

• Maulana Hasrat Mohani

  26 March 2013 ( #United Province, #Hasrat, #British India, #Unnao, #Hasrat Mohani, #Urdu, #Krishna Janmashtami, #Mawlānā )

  Maulana Hasrat Mohani (b. 1875 Unnao, d. 1951 Lucknow) (Urdu: مولانا حسرت موہانی) was a Romantic Poet of Urdu language, journalist, politician, parliamentarian and a fearless freedom fighter of Indian Sub-continent. The real name of Maulana was Syed Fazl-ul-Hasan....

• Muhammad Bahadur Khan

  26 March 2013 ( #Nizam of Hyderabad, #India, #Khan, #Urdu, #Bahadur Yar Jung, #Nizam, #Hyderabad India, #Hyderabad )

  Muhammad Bahadur Khan (3 February 1905 – 25 June 1944), alias Saadi Khan . Titles Bahadur Yar Jung ( Urdu : بہادر یار جنگ ) and Quaid-e-Millath ( Urdu : قائد ملت ) was an Hyderabadi Muslim who argued for the formation of Muslim states in India during...

• Khawaja Nazimuddin

  25 March 2013 ( #Dhaka, #Muhammad Ali Bogra, #Liaquat Ali Khan, #Khawaja Nazimuddin, #West-Pakistan, #Pakistan, #Dunstable Grammar School, #East Pakistan )

  Khawaja Nazimuddin, KCIE (Urdu: خواجہ ناظم الدین; Bengali: খাজা নাজিমুদ্দীন) (name pronounced as Khajyäħ Nazim-üddeen; July 19, 1894 – October 22, 1964), was one of the notable Bengali Founding Fathers of modern-state of Pakistan, career statesman from...

• Umar Gul

  24 March 2013 ( #India, #Sachin Tendulkar, #Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, #Gul, #Test cricket, #Umar Gul, #Pakistan, #Virender Sehwag )

  Umar Gul (Urdu: عمرگل, Pashto: عمرګل ) (born 14 April 1984) is a Pakistani right arm fast medium bowler in cricket who has played Test matches, One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals for the Pakistani cricket team. [1] [2] He has gained fame...

• Mohammad Younus Khan

  24 March 2013 ( #Mohammad Yousuf, #India, #One Day International, #Younus, #Younus Khan, #Pakistan, #Craig McMillan, #South Africa )

  Younis Khan Mohammad Younus Khan ( Pashto , Urdu : محمد یونس خان) (born 29 November 1977) is a Pakistani cricketer and former captain of the Pakistan national cricket team . Younus' name is often spelled Younis Khan, but he has been quoted as saying,...

• Hub Power Company

  24 March 2013 ( #Balochistan Pakistan, #National Development Finance Corporation, #Hub Power Company, #Pakistan, #Karachi, #HUBCO, #Pakistan State Oil, #Lasbela District )

  Hub Power Company Limited (HUBCO) is located at Hub, Lasbela District, Balochistan, Pakistan. The Hub Power Company is a large, private-sector power company and its 1,200 MW plant is located 60 km from Karachi in Hub. The electricity at HUBCO is generated...

• The Kot Addu Power Company

  24 March 2013 ( #Kot Addu Power Company, #Kot Addu, #WAPDA, #Kot Adu, #Water and Power Development Authority, #Watt, #Pakistan, #District Muzaffargarh )

  The Kot Addu Power Company Limited (KAPCO), was incorporated in 1996, location in Kot Addu, District Muzaffargarh, Punjab, Pakistan. Kot Addu Power Plant was built by the Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA). In April, 1996, the Company...

• The Jamrud Fort

  24 March 2013 ( #Dost Mohammad Khan, #Khyber Pass, #Sikh, #Jamrud, #Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, #Afghanistan, #Pakistan, #Peshawar )

  Afghan chiefs and a British Political Officer posed at Jamrud fort at the mouth of the Khyber Pass in 1878. The Jamrud Fort is located at the entrance to the Khyber Pass in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. In 1837, the fort was captured from Afghan ruler...

• Rawat Fort

  24 March 2013 ( #Rawalpindi, #Rawat Fort, #Pothohar Plateau, #Mankiala, #Sher Shah Suri, #Pakistan, #Gakhar, #Grand Trunk Road )

  Building inside Rawat Fort Puunjab Pakistan Rawat Fort is located in Pothohar Pakistan. The fort was built in early 16th century by Gakhars, a tribe of the Pothohar plateau. It is 17 km east of Rawalpindi on Grand Trunk Road.The fort was the scene of...

• Fort Abbas

  24 March 2013 ( #Fort Abbas, #Bahawalnagar District, #India, #Faqirwali, #Bahawalpur, #Cholistan Desert, #Pakistan, #Muhammad Abbas )

  Fort Abbas (Urdu: فورٹ عبّاس ), (Punjabi: فورٹ عباس), formerly Pholra, is a town and a tehsil in Bahawalnagar District in the Cholistan Desert of Punjab, Pakistan. It is situated South of Haroonabad, near Faqirwali, on the border of Pakistan and India....

• Derawar Fort

  24 March 2013 ( #Derawar Fort, #Bahawalpur, #Rajput, #Cholistan Desert, #Jaisalmer, #Pakistan, #Abbasi, #Indus Valley Civilization )

  Derawer Fort at Cholistan Desert, Pakistan Derawar Fort is a large square fortress in Pakistan near Bahawalpur. 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...

• Fort Munro

  24 March 2013 ( #Punjab Pakistan, #Dera Ghazi Khan District, #Gumal Pass, #Sulaiman Mountain, #Robert Groves Sandeman, #Pakistan, #Fort Munro, #Dera Ghazi Khan )

  Fort Munro (Urdu: فورٹ منرو ), (Balochi, Saraiki:فورٹ ٘منرو), also known as Nimroo (نمرو), is a hill station, located at a height of 6,470 feet above sea level in Dera Ghazi Khan. It attracts many people for short stays during the hot summer. It is around...

• Clifton Beach Karachi

  24 March 2013 ( #Saddar Town, #Provinces, #Defence Housing Authority, #Clifton Beach, #Clifton, #Pakistan, #Karachi, #Travel and Tourism )

  Evening scene on Clifton beach. Clifton Beach or Seaview is a beach in Karachi, Pakistan located on the Arabian Sea. It is one of the neighborhoods of Clifton, Saddar Town. It was the world's most popular silver-sand beach and health resort during 20th...

• Khurshid Ahmad

  24 March 2013 ( #Qari Waheed Zafar Qasmi, #Khurshid Ahmad, #Rahim Yar Khan, #Urdu, #Nigar Award, #Naat, #Pakistan, #Dow Medical College )

  Alhaj Khursheed Ahmad or Khurshid Ahmad(Urdu: الحاج خورشید احمد ) was a Naat Khawan from Pakistan. He started to recite Naat Khawani when he was only few years old, until his death recited thousands of Naats. He used to proficiently recite Naats not only...

• Syed Sabihuddin Sabih Rehmani

  24 March 2013 ( #Canada, #Sabih Rehmani, #Urdu, #Naat, #Pakistan, #Karachi, #ARY QTV, #Sindh )

  Syed Sabihuddin Sabih Rehmani (Urdu: سيد صبيح الدين صبيح رحماني ) is a renowned name in the field of Na’at broadcaster from Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. He is not only a leading Na’at khawan but has initiated extensive research work to establish ‘Na’at’...

• Junaid Jamshed

  24 March 2013 ( #Pakistan Air Force, #Punjab States Agency, #Dil Dil Pakistan, #Vital Signs, #Junaid Jamshed, #Jamshed, #Pakistan, #Us Rah Par )

  Junaid Jamshed ( Urdu : جنید جمشید ; born 3 September 1964) is a Pakistani recording artist who gained fame as the frontman of the pop group , Vital Signs in 1987 with the hit song, " Dil Dil Pakistan ", and remained in demand throughout the 1990s. In...

• Pakistan Steel Mills

  24 March 2013 ( #Shaukat Aziz, #Liaquat Ali Khan, #Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, #Yousaf Raza Gillani, #Pakistan, #Karachi, #Pakistan Steel Mills, #Soviet Union )

  English: Image for Pakistan Steel Mills (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Pakistan Steel Mills (Urdu: پاکستان اسٹيل ملز; reporting name: PSM), is a global competitive, [4] multi-billion state-owned megacorporation and the producer of the long rolled steel and...

• Lahore Zoo

  23 March 2013 ( #Lahore, #London Zoo, #Tiergarten Schönbrunn, #Lahore Zoo, #Pakistan, #Convention on Biological Diversity, #Punjab, #South Asia )

  Lahore Zoo (Punjabi: لہور چڑیا گھر , Urdu: لاہور چڑیا گھر ) in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, established in 1872, one of the largest zoos in South Asia. It is currently managed by the Wildlife and Parks department of the Government of Pakistan. Today the...

• The Lahore Museum

  23 March 2013 ( #Lahore, #Mughal Empire, #Lahore Museum, #Urdu, #Rudyard Kipling, #Pakistan, #John Lockwood Kipling, #Ganga Ram )

  English: The Lahore Museum, also knwn as Central Museum was built in 1894 in Lahore. Rudyard Kipling's father John Lockwood Kipling, was one of the famous curators of the museum. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Lahore Museum (Punjabi: لاہور میوزیم , Urdu:...

• Security arrangements of Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf

  23 March 2013 ( #Canada, #Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, #Salman Khurshid, #Prime Minister, #Government, #Pakistan, #Pakistan Prime Minister, #History )

  وزیراعظم راجا پرویز اشرف کے گھر 4بلٹ پروف گاڑیاں پہنچا دی گئیں وزیراعظم راجا پرویزاشرف کی سیکیورٹی کو فول پروف بنانے کیلیے ایک جدیدترین بلٹ پروف لینڈ کروزر اور3اپلائیڈ فار ڈبل کیبن سیکیورٹی اہلکاروں کیلیے خریدی گئی ہیں۔ چاروں گاڑیاں وزیراعظم راجا پرویزاشرف...

• Simly Dam

  23 March 2013 ( #Soan River, #Islamabad, #Rawalpindi, #Capital Development Authority, #Pakistan, #Drinking water, #Murree, #Christian Democratic Appeal )

  Simly Dam is an 80m high earthen embankment dam on the Soan River, 30 km east of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. [2] It is the largest reservoir of drinking water to people living in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. The water stored in this dam is fed by...

• Baglihar Dam

  23 March 2013 ( #Manmohan Singh, #Kashmir, #India, #Indus River, #Chenab River, #Baglihar Dam, #Pakistan, #Indus Water Treaty )

  English: Baglihar Dam across Chenab river in Doba district of Jammu and Kashmir state in India Baglihar Dam (Hindi: बगलिहार बाँध Baglihār Bāndh), also known as Baglihar Hydroelectric Power Project, is a run-of-the-river power project on the Chenab River...