The Karakoram Highway (KKH) is the highest paved international road in the world. It connects China and Pakistan across the Karakoram mountain range, through the Khunjerab Pass, at an altitude of 4730 metres, by far the highest paved international border crossing in the world. It connects China’s Xinjiang region with…
Month: February 2011
Colonel Muammar Al-Gaddafi
Col Qazafi as known in Pakistan has been celebrated as a great muslim leader. In 1974 a Stadium in was named on him the Qazafi Stadium later a huge colony in Lahore than in Faisalabad and in Karachi was also named on Col Qazafi. The Qazafi Town of Karachis a…
Pakistan: History and Politics 1947-1971
Product DescriptionThis is a comprehensive account of the history and politics of Pakistan until the establishment of Bangladesh. It encompasses with depth and precision all of the developments in politics, economics, and foreign relations that help to understand the historical process. Buy This book from Amazon Now! Shipping in Pakistan…
Travels into Bokhara; being the account of a journey from India to Cabool, Tartary, and Persia; also, Narrative of a voyage on the Indus, from the sea … under the orders of the supreme gover
Product DescriptionThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important,…
New Curator for reviving Peshawar Museum
PESHAWAR, Feb 19: The newly-appointed curator of Peshawar Museum has high hopes that renovation of the British-era building having world?s largest collection of Gandhara civilisation can bring back visitors to this museum. Peshawar was once main attraction for tourist but now they are reluctant to visit the historical city due…
Broghil still in hibernation
ORDINARILY in winter, we would wear thick woolen clothing, turn on the heat in our homes and take hot soup or tea to stay warm. But for the 2,000 or so inhabitants up in the remote Boroghil valley in northern Chitral bordering the Wakhan Corridor, where maximum daytime winter temperatures…
Newly formed lake due to land slide in Hunza!
Dabri has completely blocked the Hunza River . More than two kilometers of the gorge through which the river once flowed is now filled with sand and rocks over, turning the river into an expanding lake, posing great risk to the low-lying villages of Gojal Valley and lower villages of…
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