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Qulfi

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If you were born in somewhere between 1970’s to 80’s, spent childhood in these years, went to school, park or at picnic with your family in summers, then you must have remembered the bell which took you out of home, when its break time in school or at off time your there would be lot of Thela’s selling different things ...Read More »

Murree and the Galis: An Alpine Wonderland

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Close to Islamabad in the foothills of the PirPanjal, cool in summer, crisp in winter, the Murree Hills are at an elevation of about 2300 meters (7,500 feet) offer some of Pakistan’s most delightful alpine scenery, which is known as Murree and its Galis around the world. In the middle of the last century, the British raj (rule) turned it ...Read More »

The Silk Route & Karakorum Highway

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Shahra e Reshum or the Silk Route is one of the most prominent places in Pakistan, which is now known as Karakorum Highway. The silk route contains a history from second century B.C. It was known as a great commerce route created from Chang’an (now Xian) in the east and completed at the Mediterranean in the west, connecting China with ...Read More »

The Indus River

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To the ancient Hindus, the Indus flowed from the mouth of the lion, Sinh-Ka-Baba. They described the river in Sanskrit as the Sindus. Then Greeks named it Sinthus, followed by Romans Sindus & Chinese Sintow, and then came Persians who named it Abisin. Pliny first used the name Indus as history tells us. India was named after Indus, and through ...Read More »

Thtta & Makli Hill Graveyard

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Thatta is considered as one of the oldest city of Sindh. It is situated on the west of the Arabian Sea and Indus River, East of the Karachi city and spread over the area of 98 Kilometers. ‘Thatto‘ is the name of the Thatta city in Sindhi language. The chief crop grown here is Sugar cane, and because the area ...Read More »

Jahangir Kothari Parade

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The beautiful and colorful architectures are considered as a pride of Karachi city. The furnished parade opens door to access the Clifton Sea known as Jahangir Kothari Parade. The location of the parade is exotic and its beauty is increased by fascinating views of sea.   Seth Jahangir Hormusji Kothari, the real owner of the site and a distinguished personality ...Read More »

Summer Vacation

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Every progeny in the world desires to spend most of the time playing, eating sweets & ice cream and traveling to the most exotic locations of the world. Their illusion is fully topped up in their summer vacations. Summer vacation or summer holidays is a vacation during summer for schools  in which scholars and teachers are off school typically between ...Read More »

Begum Raana liaquat Ali Khan

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  Begum Raana Liaquat Ali Khan is known as first Muslim women who worked as an ambassador, first Muslim governor and firs chancellor of the University of Karachi. She was first Muslim women to receive the Women achievement medal, Jan Adams medal and United Nation’s Human rights award in history.              Begum Raana Liaquat Ali Khan was born on 13th ...Read More »

Baltit Fort

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In Gilgit-Baltistan in Hunza Valley, an ancient fort knows as Baltit Fort or Balti Fort was built 700 years ago. A local prince in 16 century married princes of Baltistan and as a part of her dowry she brought the master Balti craftsmen to renovate the fort for her. The Tibetan style of Buddhist reflects from the architecture that gives ...Read More »

Bibi Pak Daman

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Bibi Pak Daman is the name of a mausoleum situated near Empress Road Lahore. It is a crowded and massively visited monument. This place holds graves of six women.  Meaning of the name Bibi Pak Daman is “chaste lady” or “Lady of Purity”. This name refers collectively to all six women buried inside the tomb but some say it refers ...Read More »

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