Important Cities
- Islamabad (Capital)
- Peshawar
- Faisalabad
- Lahore
- Sialkot
- Karachi
- Hyderabad
- Multan
- Jhelum
- Okara
- Rawalpindi
- Gilgit
Main Attractions
- Emperor Jehangir's Tomb
- Lahore Fort
- Rohtas Forte
- Shalimar Garden
- Badshahi Mosque
- Takht-I-Bahi
- Harappa
- Hund-Excavations
- Taxila
- Mohenjo- daro
Main Industries
- Construction Materials
- Food Processing
- Fertiliser
- Pharmaceuticals
- Paper Products
- Textile and Apparel
Hunted Facts on pakistan
- Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world, is home to the second most populous city in the world, and is the third most populous Muslim country.
- Pakistan was formed on 14 August 1947 with two Muslim-majority wings in the eastern and northwestern regions of South Asia, separated by Hindu-majority India, and comprising the provinces of Balochistan, East Bengal, the North-West Frontier Province, West Punjab and Sindh.
- To the west of the Indus are the dry, hilly deserts of Balochistan; to the east are the rolling sand dunes of the Thar Desert.
- Pakistan's nuclear program was launched in earnest shortly after the loss of East Pakistan in the 1971 war with India, when Bhutto initiated a program to develop nuclear weapons with a meeting of physicists and engineers at Multan in January 1972.
- Pakistan acceded to the Geneva Protocol on April 15, 1960, the Biological Weapons Convention in 1974 and the Chemical Weapons Convention on October 28, 1997.In 1999 Pakistan signed the Lahore Accords, with India, agreeing a bilateral moratorium on nuclear testing.
- Pakistan's nuclear warheads are based on an implosion design that uses a solid core of highly enriched uranium and requires an estimated 15-20 kg of material per warhead.
- The Persian King Cyrus invaded in 535 BCE defeated the Scythians and conquered Gandhara in northern Pakistan.
- Pakistan, a developing country, is the sixth most populous in the world and has faced a number of challenges on the political and economic fronts.
- The languages of Pakistan are Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashto, Kashmiri, Seraiki, Baloch, Brahui, etc. Arabic is the religious language, Persian or Farsi is the cultural language, Urdu is the national language and English is the official language of Pakistan.
- Pakistan emerged from an extended period of agitation by Muslims in the subcontinent to express their national identity free from British colonial domination as well as domination by what they perceived as a Hindu-controlled Indian National Congress.
