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Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second-largest Muslim population as of 2023. Islamabad is the nation's capital, while Karachi is its largest city and financial centre. Pakistan is the 33rd-largest country by area. Bounded by the Arabian Sea on the south, the Gulf of Oman on the southwest, and the Sir Creek on the southeast, it shares land borders with India to the east; Afghanistan to the west; Iran to the southwest; and China to the northeast. It shares a maritime border with Oman in the Gulf of Oman, and is separated from Tajikistan in the northwest by Afghanistan's narrow Wakhan Corridor.

Pakistan is the site of several ancient cultures, including the 8,500-year-old Neolithic site of Mehrgarh in Balochistan, the Indus Valley Civilisation of the Bronze Age, and the ancient Gandhara civilisation. The regions that compose the modern state of Pakistan were the realm of multiple empires and dynasties, including the Achaemenid, the Maurya, the Kushan, the Gupta; the Umayyad Caliphate in its southern regions, the Hindu Shahis, the Ghaznavids, the Delhi Sultanate, the Samma, the Shah Miris, the Mughals, and finally, the British Raj from 1858 to 1947. (Full article...)

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Urdu (اُرْدُو, urdū, [ˈʊɾduː] ^ⓘ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in South Asia. It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also an official Eighth Schedule language in India, the status and cultural heritage of which are recognised by the Constitution of India — alongside having official status in several Indian states (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, and both Telugu states).

Urdu and Hindi are closely related. They share a common, predominantly Sanskrit- and Prakrit-derived, vocabulary base, phonology, syntax, and grammar, making them mutually intelligible during colloquial communication. The common base of the two languages is sometimes referred to as the Hindi–Urdu or Hindustani language, and Urdu has been described as a Persianised standard register of the Hindustani language. While formal Urdu draws literary, political, and technical vocabulary from Persian and Arabic, formal Hindi draws these aspects from Sanskrit; consequently, the two languages' mutual intelligibility effectively decreases as the level of formality increases. (Full article...)

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Nagan Interchange in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan is one of the busiest interchanges of Karachi. The transport infrastructure is still in a development phase but has been given significant focus in the last two decades for improvement and modernization.

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Image 1Karachi is home to large numbers of descendants of refugees and migrants from Hyderabad, in southern India, who built a small replica of Hyderabad's famous Charminar monument in Karachi's Bahadurabad area. (from Karachi)
Image 2With a capacity of 800,000 worshippers, Grand Jamia Mosque is the largest mosque in Pakistan and 3rd largest in the world. (from Karachi)
Image 3The D. J. Sindh Government Science College is one of Karachi's oldest universities and dates from 1887. (from Karachi)
Image 4Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore is the third-largest cricket stadium in Pakistan with a seating capacity of 27,000 spectators. (from Culture of Pakistan)
Image 5Karachi (left) in comparison to the Indus River Delta (from Karachi)
Image 6Men dressed in shalwar kameez in a general store on the road to Kalash, Pakistan (from Pakistanis)
Image 7Truck art is a distinctive feature of Pakistani culture (from Culture of Pakistan)
Image 8St. Patrick's Cathedral, built-in 1881, serves as the seat of the Archdiocese of Karachi. (from Karachi)
Image 9Aga Khan University's hospital (from Karachi)
Image 10Pakistan map of climate classification zones (from Geography of Pakistan)
Image 11The National Stadium in Karachi (from Karachi)
Image 12Peoples Bus Service (Red) (from Karachi)
Image 13Given the honorary title "Father of Service", Naimatullah Khan Advocate (2001–2005) was one of the most successful and respected mayors Karachi ever had. (from Karachi)
Image 14Pakistan is the fifteenth most water stressed country in the world. (from Geography of Pakistan)
Image 15A sitar workshop in Islamabad, Pakistan. (from Culture of Pakistan)
Image 16Lady Dufferin Hospital (from Karachi)
Image 17Greenline Metrobus Karachi (from Karachi)
Image 18Peoples Bus Service (Pink) (from Karachi)
Image 19A Green line Station (from Karachi)
Image 20Artistic depiction of Sindhi soldiers during medieval times (from Culture of Pakistan)
Image 21Lord Mountbatten and his wife Edwina in Karachi 14 August 1947 (from Karachi)
Image 22Karachi University is the city's largest by number of students, number of departments & occupied land area. (from Karachi)
Image 23The 15th–18th century Chaukhandi tombs are a Tentative UNESCO World Heritage Site. (from Karachi)
Image 24Some of Karachi's most recognized structures, such as Frere Hall, date from the British Raj. (from Karachi)
Image 25Distribution of Pakistani diaspora
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Image 26The Arabian Sea influences Karachi's climate, providing the city with more moderate temperatures compared to other areas of Sindh province. (from Karachi)
Image 27The Manora Fort, built in 1797 to defend Karachi, was captured by the British on 3 February 1839 and upgraded 1888–1889. (from Karachi)
Image 28FAST NUCES Karachi campus (from Karachi)
Image 29Shri Laxmi Narayan Mandir (from Karachi)
Image 30A traditional cup of black tea (from Culture of Pakistan)
Image 31Bahadurabad Area has a high population density. (from Karachi)
Image 32Bai Virbaijee Soparivala (B.V.S.) Parsi High School (from Karachi)
Image 33The Swaminarayan Temple is the largest Hindu temple in Karachi. (from Karachi)
Image 34Dust storm over Pakistan and surrounding countries, 7 April 2005 (from Geography of Pakistan)
Image 35Under construction high rises in DHA Karachi (from Karachi)
Image 36Geological map of Pakistan. (This image is from 1964, and so includes East Pakistan, modern Bangladesh.) (from Geography of Pakistan)
Image 37K2, at 8,611 metres (28,251 feet), is the world's second highest peak (from Geography of Pakistan)
Image 38Schoolgirls in Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, in shalwars with cuffed hems, and kameez with western-style collars. (from Culture of Pakistan)
Image 39Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistan's national poet who conceived the idea of Pakistan (from Culture of Pakistan)
Image 40Satellite image of the Sulaiman Range (from Geography of Pakistan)
Image 41Karachi from above (from Karachi)
Image 42The Tomb of Shah Rukn-e-Alam is part of Pakistan's Sufi heritage. (from Culture of Pakistan)
Image 43Located on the bank of Arabian Sea in Karachi, Port Grand is one of the largest food streets of Asia. (from Culture of Pakistan)
Image 44Karachi features several examples of colonial-era Indo-Saracenic architecture, such as the KMC Building. (from Karachi)
Image 45The Lahore Fort, a landmark built during the Mughal era, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site (from Culture of Pakistan)
Image 46I. I. Chundrigar Road is considered to be the "downtown" of karachi (from Karachi)
Image 47Shri Swami Narayan Mandir (from Karachi)
Image 48The match held between Sind & Australia in Karachi on 22 November 1935 was reported by The Sydney Morning Herald (from Karachi)
Image 49Mules Mansion (from Karachi)
Image 50The former State Bank of Pakistan building was built during the colonial era. (from Karachi)
Image 51Clifton is considered as one of the richest neighbourhoods in Pakistan. (from Karachi)
Image 52An 1897 image of Karachi's Rampart Row street in Mithadar (from Karachi)

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8 October 2005: The Kashmir earthquake (also known as the South Asia earthquake or the Great Pakistan earthquake) of 2005, was a major earthquake, of which the epicentre was the Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The earthquake occurred at 08:50:38 Pakistan Standard Time (03:50:38 UTC) on 8 October 2005. It registered 7.6 on the richter scale making it a major earthquake similar in intensity to the 1935 Quetta earthquake, the 2001 Gujarat earthquake, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The Pakistani government's official death toll was 73,276, while officials say nearly 1,400 people died in Jammu and Kashmir and fourteen people in Afghanistan. Most of the affected people lived in mountainous regions with access impeded by landslides that blocked the roads, leaving an estimated 3.3 million homeless in Pakistan.

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Muhammad Ishaq Dar (born 13 May 1950) is a Pakistani accountant and politician who has served as the 6th deputy prime minister and 38th foreign minister of Pakistan since 2024.

A close aide of the Sharif family, Dar is affiliated with the PML-N and previously served as the finance minister from 2022 to 2023, leader of the House for the Senate in 2022, and Leader of the Opposition for the Senate of Pakistan from 2012 to 2013. He was re-elected as a senator on a technocrat seat from Islamabad in the 2024 Pakistani Senate elections. He is a proponent of a set of economic policies now known as Daronomics. (Full article...)

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... that Rehri Goth, one of the poor neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Karachi, is one of the oldest settlements dating back to the 13th century? (31 March 2024)

... that Burushaski, a predominantly in northern Gilgit-Baltistan spoken rather than written language, has not more than 120,000 native speakers? (9 July 2023)

... that the MagnifiScience Centre in Karachi is the only science center in the country, and, unlike a museum, visitors are encouraged to touch and learn from the interaction with the exhibits? (11 June 2023)

... that Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau, the famous German–Pakistani Catholic nun who devoted more than 55 years of her life to fighting leprosy was the first Christian and first non-Muslim to have a state funeral in Pakistan? (2 September 2021)

... that Lahore Metrobus open in 2013, was modelled after the Istanbul Bus Rapid Transit System. Plans were developed in the last quarter of 2011 by both local and Turkish experts.^[1] (31 August 2021)

... that Lahore Knowledge Park is an actualization of Triple Helix configuration; a framework to create synergies between government, academia and industry to operate into an interactive rather than linear model for the establishment of social formats and entities to promote commercial innovation and R&D. ^[2] (27 January 2017)

... that Karachi Kings is the most expensive franchise team of Pakistan Super League? (04 December 2015)

... that Sialkot is the world's largest producer of hand-sewed footballs, with local factories manufacturing 40~60 million footballs a year, amounting to roughly 60% of world production. (4 December 2017)

... that Hafiz Muhammad Fazal Azim Taha, the famous living Pakistani poet said about Iqbal's work that "He not only dreamed for Pakistan but also got the nation up for their rights". This famous saying is regarded as Iqbal's definition. (14 July 2014)

... that Tajammul Hussain Malik headed an unsuccessful coup attempt against Pakistani dictator General Zia-ul-Haq in 1980? (22 September 2009)

... that the Legal Framework Order, 1970, issued by Gen. Yahya Khan, set the rules for the first direct popular elections in the history of Pakistan? (14 September 2009)

... that in 1881 in the village of Bakhshali in northern Pakistan, the Bakhshali manuscript, the oldest surviving example of Indian mathematics, was discovered written on birch bark? (1 September 2008)

... that the original images of Lord Swaminarayan at the Shri Swaminarayan Temple in Karachi, Pakistan were removed and taken to India during the turbulent times of its partition? (1 September 2008)

... that Saudi Arabia promised to supply 50,000 barrels of free oil per day to help Pakistan if economic sanctions were imposed after its 1998 nuclear tests? (1 September 2008)

... that in a major improvement in bilateral relations in 2008, Pakistan proposed sharing nuclear technology with Bangladesh? (31 August 2008)

... that Abdur Rashid Kardar, a pioneer of the Pakistani film industry in Lahore, was a calligraphist who prepared posters for foreign-made films? (11 July 2008)

... that the Nigar Awards are the oldest awards of merit in the Pakistani film industry? (10 July 2008)

... that Syed Wajid Ali was the longest serving President of the Pakistan Olympic Association with a tenure of 26 years? (7 July 2008)

... that the 1948 film Teri Yaad was the first feature film to be released in Pakistan after the partition of India? (6 July 2008)

... that The Edhi Foundation, founded by Edhi, runs the world's largest volunteer ambulance service operating 1,800 of them with upto 6,000 a day in Karachi alone. (4 December 2017)

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29 June 2026 – 2026 Afghanistan–Pakistan war: Pakistani information minister Attaullah Tarar says that Pakistan has carried out airstrikes in Afghanistan targeting alleged Jamaat-ul-Ahrar headquarters, killing 25 militants in border regions and the eastern provinces of Paktia, Paktika, and Kunar. (AFP via Free Malaysia Today); Afghan officials say that over 36 civilians have been killed in overnight strikes by Pakistan, and more than 160 have been injured. (AP); Afghan foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi summons the chargé d'affaires at the Pakistani embassy in Kabul over the airstrikes. (Hasht-e Subh) (India Today)
27 June 2026 – Insurgency in Sindh: Three soldiers and four gunmen are killed in a shootout at a security compound in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera) (AP via Toronto Star)
22 June 2026 – 2026 Iran war: Mediators Pakistan and Qatar say that Iran and the United States have agreed to a roadmap aimed at reaching a final deal within 60 days. (BBC News)

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There is no power on Earth that can undo Pakistan.

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— Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Founder of Pakistan)

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