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25 unusual facts about Pakistan


1904 Sasun uprising

On January 17, with groups of Murad Sebastatsi and Seyto he attacked the Kurds, who (with Turkish troops) retreated to Pasur.

Amuri

Amuri, Pakistan – a town in the Balochistan province of Pakistan.

Baluchistan cricket team

In the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy and other first-class tournaments in Pakistan, Baluchistan province has usually been represented since the 1957-58 season by the Quetta cricket team, except for two matches in 1969-70 when a team from Kalat also played (losing both their matches).

Bedadi

Bedadi, Pakistan, village in North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan

Bhai Fauja Singh

After the formation of Pakistan they moved to the village of Gazneepur, which is 6 miles on the Gurdaspur Dera Baba Nanak road.

Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs

The Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs is responsible for U.S. foreign policy and U.S. relations with Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Darah

Darah, Pakistan, village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan

Emmanuel Nicholas

Nicholas, a De La Salle Christian Brother, was 27 when he left Sri Lanka for Pakistan, to teach mathematics and science at La Salle High School Multan.

Gah

Gah, Pakistan, a village in Chakwal District (formerly in Jhelum District when Chakwal was Tehsil of Jhelum District) of Pakistan

Hoti

Hoti, Pakistan, a region in the Mardan District of the North-West Frontier Province.

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

The story takes place in an unnamed country that resembles Hamid's home country of Pakistan.

Indian White Paper on Plebiscite in Kashmir

The plebiscite was never conducted due to intransigence on the part of both India and Pakistan.

Khushal Khan Khattak

The Khattak tribe of Khushal Khan now mostly lives in areas of Karak, Kohat, Nowshera, Akora Khattak, Cherat, Peshawar, Mardan and in other parts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Masood Khadarpoosh

Masood Khadarpoosh (1916–1985) was a famous communist activist in Pakistan.

Military coups in Pakistan

its independence in 1947, Pakistan has spent several decades under military rule (1958 – 1971, 1977 – 1988, 1999 – 2008).

Miranzai Valley

East of Hangu there are numerous smaller valleys; west of Hangu, consisting of all of the upper portion of the valley, there is a broad and open plain, bare of trees.

Multan Fort

The Multan Fort, a Pakistani military installation, was a landmark of Indian defence and architecture.

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.

Saifuding

Saifuding, one of several aliases associated with Abdul Haq (1971-2010), an ethnic Uyghur from China, who was alleged to be a leader of the East Turkistan Islamic Party and reportedly killed in a drone missile strike in Pakistan in February, 2010.

Sanwla

The Sanwla (Urdu: سانولہ) is a Muslim tribe of Pakistan who are found mainly in the Dera Ismail Khan District, of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.They speak Saraiki Language.

Sardar Aurang Zeb Khan

Sardar Aurang Zeb Khan was a Pakistani politician from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Shahida Ahmed

Her father came to England from Pakistan to work as a weaver and soon established his own business, Shahzad Textiles, in Nelson and her mother she says 'was very creative.

Shahkot

Shahkot, Pakistan, a town and tehsil of Nankana Sahib District, Punjab

Shikarpur

Shikarpur, Pakistan, the capital of Shikarpur District in Sindh province, Pakistan

Toru

Toru, Pakistan, village in Mardan District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 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

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. A. Khan

Aziz Ahmed Khan (born 1943), Pakistan's former High commissioner to India 2003-2006

Abbottabad Jamia Public School

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

Al-Ghazi Tractors

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

Allama Hassan Turabi

Turabi also held a strong position in Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, the united front of six Islamic parties of Pakistan.

Ayub School of Nursing

The Ayub School of Nursing (ASN), located in Abbottabad, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, is the nursing education unit of Ayub Medical College, however most teaching and training occurs at Ayub Teaching Hospital.

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.

Chand Bagh

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

Christopher Chappell

Christopher James David Chappell (born 17 July 1955 in Toronto) is Canadian former cricketer: a right-handed batsman who opened the batting for the Canadian team in their first ever One Day International, played against Pakistan at the 1979 World Cup, and had two further ODI appearances, both in the same tournament.

Dorab Patel

Following completing his doctorate, dr. Patel returned to Karachi, West Pakistan where he began practicing law in West Pakistan High Court.

Elbruz

Elbruz, garbling of Elburz, also called Alborz, primarily northern-Iranian mountain range neighboring Armenia, Afghanistan, and 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.

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.

Ghulam Muhammad Malik

Gen. Malik belongs to the Awan tribe and he is from Khushab which is one of the prime recruiting areas for Pakistan army.

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.

Godrej Sidhwa

He was also appointed as Examiner in Zoroastrian Theology by the University of Karachi, Pakistan, for the Bachelor’s degree program.

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.

Gul Ahmed Group

The Ideas flagship store is located in the Clifton area of Karachi, with plans to establish a retail chain throughout Pakistan.

History of cricket in Bangladesh

1980: In January, Pakistan tours Bangladesh for a 2-day match in Chittagong and a 3-day sellout match in Dacca.

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.

Kandwala

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

Kripa Sagar

Born Kripa Das on May 4 1875 in the village of Pipnakha in the outskirts of Gujranwala, now a major town in Pakistan, Kripa Sagar was successively a teacher, an editor, a banker, an officer of the University of the Punjab, and a publisher.

Krishna Tirath

On January 24, 2010 a photograph of former Pakistan Air Chief Marshal Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed in uniform appeared along with those of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi in a full-page newspaper advertisement (see External Links below) given by Ministry of Women and Child Development to mark the National Girl Child Day.

Muhammad Zafarullah Khan

Chaudhry Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, KCSI (February 6, 1893 - September 1, 1985) was one of the leading Founding Fathers of modern Pakistan, politician, statesman, diplomat, international jurist, and a prominent scholar of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.

Muhammad Zia

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

Naimatullah Khan

He has extensively worked in the Thar region of Pakistan since 1997 trying to bring that area out of problems such as acute water shortages and illiteracy.

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)

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences

It became the first multi-campus university of Pakistan with campuses in Islamabad, Karachi, Peshawar and Lahore.

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.

Omeprazole

Omeprazole is marketed as Zegerid by Santarus, Prilosec OTC by Procter & Gamble and Zegerid OTC by Schering-Plough and as Segazole by Star Laboratories in Pakistan.

Pakistan Sangeet Icon

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

Patricia Harrison

Under Harrison's direction, the State Department initiated the CultureCommect program in which American celebrities such as YoYo Ma, Denyce Graves, Doris Roberts and Frank McCourt acted as "cultural ambassadors" in trips to Pakistan, Russia, Israel and other countries.

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.

Rahatullah Mohmand

He was invited to play for Afghanistan to strengthen their batting by their coach Kabir Khan, the former left-arm fast medium bowler who played four Tests for Pakistan.He included in the 15-member Afghanistan team named ahead of the 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifiers due to take place in South Africa.

Rashtriya Indian Military College

The Colonel Sawai Maharaj Sahib Shri Deshpal Singh Ju Deo of Ajaigarh cousin of H.H. Sawai Maharaja Punya Pratap Singh Sahib Bahadur of Ajaigarh is passed out from the same and was classmate of Padma Bhushan, General GG Bewoor, General Nayazi (Pakistan), General Bahadur.

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.

Sauvira Kingdom

Al-Beruni considered Sauvira to represent southwest Punjab, including Multan, Mithankot and adjacent areas at the region of the confluence of Indus river with other rivers of Punjab in modern Pakistan.

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.

Sozo Water Park

Sozo Water Park is a water park located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

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.

Tariq Lutfi

Pakistan Football Federation's President Faisal Saleh Hayat had appointed Tariq Lutfi as coach of the Pakistan Women football team in 2010.

Thar

Thar Desert, a barren wasteland in Rajasthan, India and Sindh, Pakistan

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.