X-Nico

unusual facts about Karachi, Pakistan



1979 in Pakistan

21 November – After false radio reports from the Ayatollah Khomeini that the Americans have occupied the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set afire, killing 4.

1996 in Afghanistan

Taliban officials met with Pakistani Foreign Secretary Najmuddin ShaikhThe subject discussed as during Mr. Shaikh's meeting with Dostum and Dr. Abdullah in Mazar Sharif a day earlier was the working out of ceasefire arrangements between the contending factions in Afghanistan and suggesting talks with the Northern Alliance for the formation of a coalition government

2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff

The Pakistan military's information sources, the ISPR's spokesman Major-General Rashid Qureshi, claimed that the Parliament attack was a "drama staged by Indian intelligence agencies to defame the freedom struggle in 'occupied Kashmir'" and further warned that India would pay "heavily if they engage in any misadventure".

76th Punjabis

During the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War, the battalion fought at Jassar in the Sialkot Sector, while in the 1971 war, it took part in capture of the Indian fortress of Qaisar-i-Hind in the Hussainiwala Sector.

A.K. Golam Jilani

A. K. Golam Jilani was born in 24 October 1904 in the Algichor village of the Nawabganj Upazila of the Dhaka district of British India (Present day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh).

Aba Khel

Aba Khel, FATA, a town in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan

Abbottabad Jamia Public School

Abbottabad Jamia Public School (or AJPC) is located at College Road, Karimpura, Abbottabad city in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan.

Abdul Subhan Qureshi

Police sources told The Hindu that he participated in the October,1999 SIMI conference where Sheikh Yasin, the head of the Hamas and the Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad, were among those who delivered speeches through a telephone network.

Afzal Khan Lala

He then allied himself with the Pakistan Oppressed Nations Movement (PONM), advocating full provincial autonomy for the various ethnicities of Pakistan.

Al-Ghazi Tractors

The Al-Ghazi Tractors Limited (AGTL), was incorporated in 1983, its plant located in Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, Pakistan.

Amanat Ali

Amjad Amanat Ali Khan (1953–2002), classical, semi-classical and ghazal singer from Pakistan.

Ayesha Gilani

Ayesha Gilani won the Miss Pakistan World title on the 23rd of June 2009 in Toronto, Canada, where the Miss Pakistan World pageant gets hosted every year, which was started by Sonia Ahmed.

Battle of Mir Ali

The Battle of Mir Ali was a bloody military engagement occurred between 7 October and 10 October 2007 and involved Taliban militants and Pakistani soldiers around the town of Mir Ali, Pakistan (North Waziristan), the second biggest town in the semi-autonomous region on the border with Afghanistan.

Buddha Gujjar

Syed Noor has, during the last decade or so, acquired the status of the filmmaker in Pakistan but his critics say his movies seldom defy the 'formula'.

Chand Bagh

Chand Bagh School, an independent boarding school for boys in Pakistan

Children Parliament Pakistan

The members are elected from different schools of Islamabad, Peshawar, Faisalabad, Mithi, Kohlu, Balakot, Karachi and Lahore etc.

Displaced persons camp

In recent times, camps have existed in many parts of the world for groups of displaced persons including for refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan, and for Palestinians in Lebanon and Jordan, as well as for Afghan refugees in Pakistan.

Firdous Shamim Naqvi

Naqvi also remains a Director Makro-Habib since 2005, prior to that he served as Director Business Development Makro-Habib Pakistan, Senior Director Commercial Makro-Habib Pakistan Ltd., Chief Executive Baluchistan Concrete and Blocks Ltd., Director Tractebel Power, Karachi (1994–1988), Projects controller RAPCO Roads, Abu Dhabi (1982- 1984) and office Engineer Mergentime Corporation, New Jersey (1979- 1982).

Garden West

The population of Jamshed Town is estimated to be nearly one million.Garden West enjoys a number of dine-in facilities like KFC, Cafe Student and much more.The banks in Garden West facilitate the banking facility to the residents much effectively.The famous Ismaili "Jamatkhana" is also situated in this area called Platinum Jamatkhana, which is one of the beautiful Jamatkhana in Karachi.

George Scott Robertson

In 1888, he was attached to the Indian Foreign Office and assigned as agency surgeon in Gilgit, in northern Pakistan.

Gharara

Ghararas were also made popular in Pakistan & Bangladesh, in the 1950s and 60s with popular public figures like Fatima Jinnah and Begum Rana Liaquat Ali Khan wearing them.

Glaciers of Bhutan

The study, conducted by the Universities of California and Potsdam and published in the journal Nature Geoscience, was based on 286 glaciers along the Himalaya and Hindu Kush from Bhutan to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Gordon Corera

ISBN 0-19-530495-0, about Abdul Qadeer Khan and Pakistan's nuclear programme.

Government of Pakistan

The basic civil and criminal laws governing the citizens of Pakistan are set down in major parliamentary legislation (a term inherited from the United Kingdom), such as the Exit Control List, the Pakistan Penal Code, and the Frontier Crimes Regulations.

Islamnagar

Islamnagar, Lahore, neighbourhood in Gulberg Town in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

Israr Ullah Zehri

In August 2008, the Asian Human Rights Commission reported that five women (including three teenagers) in a remote village in Balochistan had been beaten, shot and buried alive in a ditch for the 'crime' of having wished to choose their own husbands.

Ittefaq Group

The Ittefaq Group of Industries, (English The Unity), is a multimillion dollar integrated steel producer with major operations in Punjab Province of Pakistan.

Jammu–Sialkot Line

The writer of Pakistan's first national anthem, Jagan Nath Azad, a Hindu, was forced to leave Lahore due to the escalating violence between Hindus and Muslims.

Joseph Cordeiro

The school is located in the Good Shepherd Parish in Korangi Town, Karachi.

K M Shafiullah

Major Shafiullah was among those attending the Pakistan surrender on 16 December 1971 at Race Course in Dhaka.

Kandwala

A large majority are Bhullars, as well as Sandhus who fled here after the Indian/Pakistan partition.

Khaak aur Khoon

On June 3, 1947, Lord Mountbatton announced that district of Gurdaspur was going to be aligned with Pakistan.

Khalifatul Masih

From this time on the headquarters remained in Rabwah, a town built on land bought in Pakistan by the community in 1948.

Mike Oddy

He played in an era where the sport was dominated by great players from Pakistan (such as Azam Khan, Roshan Khan, Mo Khan and Aftab Jawaid) and Egypt (such as A.A. AbouTaleb and Ibrahim Amin).

Miranzai Valley

The Miranzai Valley, also Hangu, is a mountainous valley situated in the Kohat and Hangu districts in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.

Muhammad Zia

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924 – 1988), 4th Chief Martial Law Administrator and 6th President of Pakistan

Multani

Multani dialect, a dialect of Lahnda/Punjabi spoken in southern Punjab, Pakistan

Nasim Hasan Shah

Appointed Visiting Professor at the Kulliyah of Laws, International Islamic University Malaysia to deliver a course of lectures on the Islamisation of Laws in Pakistan (1997)

North Korea–Pakistan relations

Pakistan has an Embassy in Pyongyang while North Korea maintains an Embassy in Islamabad, a vast Consulate-General in Karachi, and consulates in other cities of Pakistan.

Orakzai

Due to limited resources and fertile land, many Orakzai have settled in Pakistan's major urban centres such as Hangu, Thall, Parachinar, Tirah, Peshawar, Attock, (Nowshera-Amangarh) Islamabad,Battagram-Allai, Wazirabad, Lahore, Abbottabad and Karachi.

Pakistan Sangeet Icon

Pakistan Sangeet Icon is a reality-based singing competition shown on MTV Pakistan, Indus TV and Gkaboom.

Pakistani tea culture

In Karachi, the strong presence of Muhajir cuisine has allowed the Masala chai version to be very popular while the thick and milky Doodh Pati Chai is more preferred in Punjab.

Pir Ghaib Waterfall

Pir Ghaib Waterfalls are waterfalls situated in the Bolan Valley, 70 km from Quetta, in Balochistan, Pakistan.

PNS Ahsan

Formerly known as Remote Data Station Mianwali (RDSM), the base was renamed in the honor of former Chief of Naval Staff Vice-Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan.

Qalandar

Among the contemporary people who hold the title Qalandar are Shams Ali Qalandar of Punjab, Pakistan, Hazrath MASOOM SHAH BABA in WestBengal state of India Dist Bardhman Memari Sarif Takhtipur Hazrath Syed Shah Mohammed Khalandar Shah peeranvaliallah al Qadri al maroof Javagal Baba at Javagal Shareef(Hasan Dist.) in Karnataka state of India, Shahbaz Qalander, Nathar Vali of Trichy, Baba Fakruddin of Penukonda India.

Rupnagar district

Minutely carved and polished stone discs with a figure and motif associated with the cult of the Mother goddess of fertility have also been unearthed in the excavations from Taxila (now in Pakistan), Patna in the state of Bihar and other Mauryan sites.

Shamozai

Shamozai is a union council, sub tehsil (Tehsil:Barikot) (District:Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) and a group of villages also known as Aalaqa (area) Shamozai located on the right bank of Swat River bordering district Dir, Malakand Agency and Tehsil Kabal of District:Swat.

Tahseen Ullah Khan

On his return from UK, he joined the Submarine Service of the Pakistan Navy where-in he served onboard submarines in various capacities.

Telecommunications in Sri Lanka

The most recent survey was conducted in July 2008 in eight Asian countries, including Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, Thailand, and the Philippines.

Zeeshan Anis Siddiqui

According to the Daily Times he was arrested when he went to a Police Station in Peshawar to report the loss of his passport.


see also

1958 Dan-Air Avro York crash

The 1958 Dan-Air Avro York airplane crash was a fatal accident involving an Avro York 685 York C.1 cargo aircraft operated by Dan Air Services Limited on a non-scheduled international all-cargo service between Karachi, Pakistan, and New Delhi, India.

Al Jamea tus Saifiyah

In 1984 a branch of Al Jamea tus Saifiyah was made in Karachi Pakistan & in 2012 a branch in Nairobi Kenya.

Alizeh Imtiaz

Alizeh Imtiaz (born 10 November 1986 in Karachi, Pakistan) is the first Pakistani to have successfully had her debut short film 'Shades of Black' screened at the London Filmmakers Convention 2007.

Antao D'Souza

Born and raised in Nagoa, Salcete, Goa (at the time part of Portuguese India), D'Souza's father emigrated to Karachi, Pakistan, at the time of Partition, where D'Souza attended St Patrick's High School.

APIIT

Expansion led to the opening of the Kuala Lumpur city campus in 1997, followed by campuses in Karachi, Pakistan (1998), Colombo, Sri Lanka (2000), Lahore, Pakistan (2000), Panipat, India (2001) and Perth, Australia (2004).

Arthur Juda Cohen

During one of these trips, Arthur Juda Cohen was arrested in Karachi, Pakistan.

Bin Qasim

Bin Qasim Town in Karachi, Pakistan, which is named after Muhammad bin Qasim

Dail Jones

Jones was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and attended St Joseph's College and Karachi Grammar School.

Eddie Bo

May 22, 1997 was declared "Eddie Bo Day" in New Orleans by mayor Marc Morial while Bo was playing in Karachi, Pakistan.

Ganapathi Thanikaimoni

Thani was on his way to the US when the airplane in which he was flying, Pan Am Flight 73, was hijacked in Karachi, Pakistan on September 5, 1986.

Government Degree College Memon Goth

Government Degree Science, Arts & Commerce College Memon Goth is a Co-education degree college located in Memon Goth Karachi, Pakistan adjacent to the Office of Union Council Murad Memon Goth.

KCR

Karachi Circular Railway, the proposed metro rail system of Karachi, Pakistan

Maktaba-tul-madinah

Maktaba-tul-Madinah (Urdu: مکتبةالمدينه) is a bookstore established by the Muhammad Ilyas Qadri in Karachi, Pakistan.

Mariamman

Some notable temples include the Sri Mariamman temple in Singapore, a Mariamman temple in Pretoria, South Africa, as well as one in Medan, Sri Mariamman Temple Karachi Pakistan, Indonesia.

Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre

Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre (MALC) in Karachi, Pakistan is run by Dr. Ruth Pfau, who is also a Roman Catholic religious sister of the Society of Daughters of the Heart of Mary, originally of German descent.

Munabao

Since 2006 a train service has been running once a week between Bhagat Ki Kothi near Jodhpur and Karachi, Pakistan which passes through Munabao on India side, Zero Point border station, Khokhrapar on Pakistan side.

Qazi Mir Imdad Ali

Mohammad Yusuf died due to Pneumonia in an early age on 9 Dhu al-Qi'dah at Tijara while Anwari Begum died at the age of 84 years on 16 Shawwal / 15 May 1957 at Karachi, Pakistan.

Sher Shah Bridge

Sher Shah Bridge is a flyover in Karachi, Pakistan.

Soleja

Most people with the name Soleja/Solaija have immigrated to the state of Uttar Pradesh, India and to Karachi, Pakistan during the Partition of India in 1947.

Sun Way Flight 4412

Sun Way Flight 4412 was an international scheduled cargo flight from Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, Pakistan to Khartoum International Airport, Khartoum, Sudan.

Titanmoon

After reading the book Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson, lead singer Tyler Casey heard a Pakistani member of his church discuss a recent humanitarian trip to Karachi, Pakistan.

Turtle Beach

Turtle Beach, Karachi, Pakistan or Hawke's Bay Beach, a beach famous for green turtles, near Hawke's Bay Town, Karachi