Pakistan through history

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24th Feb 1960 was the last day of Karachi served as a Capital of Pakistan.
Karachi was the capital of Pakistan from 1947 to 1960..

Future capital site was named Islamabad, before being replaced by Rawalpindi and later by Islamabad.

 

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Pakistan Movement Procession going through Qissa Khwani Bazaar, Peshawar, April 1947....

 

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H.H. Mir Ahmad Yar Khan, The Khan of Kalat with Sir Norman Cater, A.G.G, Balochistan, and other officials on the occasion of his Coronation.
Year: 1933

 

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Sibi Air Strip

 

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Muslim refugees from East Punjab and the United Provinces climb atop trains at Amritsar Railway Station to head towards Lahore.
Year: 1947.

 

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1947

 

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Ranjit Singh was a Pakistani Sikh and he created and ruled a Pakistani empire in Punjab, Pakistan.

He was not from Republic of India.
Ranjit Singh's government's official office language was Persian & not Hindi or Punjabi, neither written in Devanagari nor in Gurmukhi scripts.

 

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Mall Road Lahore was conceived in 1851 by Civil Engineer Lieutenant Colonel Napier as a direct link road between old Cantonment of Anarkali & the new Cantonment of Mian Mir.

Later it became representative of rich urban character & happening centre of Lahore during colonial era.

 

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Inscribed Material from the sites of Indus Valley Civilisation of Pakistan .

Reference:.....
Ancient Pakistan - An Archaeological History: Volume IV by Mukhtar Ahmed

 

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King Faisal of (Saudia Arabia) accompanied with President General Muhammad Ayub Khan in Karachi.

1964

 

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In the 1500 BC Rig Veda, written in Pakistan, western tributaries of River Sindh (Indus), which flow in Pakistan towards south south-east are mentioned as:

Gomal - Gomati
Kabul - Kubha
Haro - Arjikiya
Swat - Suvastu
Zhob - Yavyavati
Gilgit - Trstama
Kunar - Kusava

 

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Karachi, 1947