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The Walled City of Lahore, also known as the "Old City," or "Anderoon Shehr” is the section of Lahore that was fortified by a city wall during the Mughal era.

Snow Lake, or Lukpe Lawo, is a high-altitude glacial basin in the Karakoram mountain range in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. Snow Lake is located 16,000 feet (4,877 m) above sea level, and is approximately 10 miles (16 km) wide. The basin lies at the head of the Biafo and Hispar glaciers, which spread down from the Hispar Pass in opposite directions, forming a 61 mile (100 km) river of ice that is among the world's longest continuous glacier systems outside of the polar regions.

Hispar Village, Hunza valley  

Students enjoy in a van as they come for sport events at the Pakistan Sports Complex Islamabad. Online

Levi’s launches its Global store at the Dolmen City Mall in Karachi:

Syra Khan and Shahroz Subzwari.PHOTO COURTESY ADNAN MALIK PRODUCTIONS

Kamiar Rokni along with Bonanza launch their 2012 lawn collection in Karachi:

Maham.PHOTO COURTESY CATALYST PR

Lahore: devotees dance during a three-day festival at the shrine of Madhu Lal Hussain on Saturday. Hussain was a disciple of Shaikh Bahlol Daryai Chinioti. Following his master’s advice, he studied mysticism and spent 12 years in penance at the shrine of Hazrat Data Gunj Bukhsh. Like all Sufis, he was a nonconformist and did not believe in ritualism, but direct communion with the Almighty. He even shaved off his beard and moustache. His tomb and shrine lies in Baghbanpura, adjacent to the Shalamar Gardens . His urs is celebrated here every year.

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Pakistan's cricket players celebrate with the champion trophy after winning the final match against Bangladesh at the Asia Cup Cricket Tournament in Dhaka March 22, 2012. PHOTO: REUTERS

D.J. Sindh Government Science College was founded in 1887, chiefly through the efforts of a far-sighted, prominent Sindhi philanthropist, Mr. Diwan Dayaram Jethmal whose name it bears. The College was opened on 17th January, 1887 by His Excellency Lord Reay, the Governor of Bombay in a bungalow in Thaitai Compound, situated on Bunder Road. Later on it was shifted to the present building in 1892. The College was by then a full-fledged institution with faculties of Arts, Sciences, Engineering and Law. D.J.Sindh Government Science College began primarily as an Arts college

Sri in kaghan valley

Paras valley, Naran

In Victorian style, Crabtree & Evelyn comes to Karachi:

The Launch of a leading UK beauty care retailer Crabtree & Evelyn’s first store in Pakistan. British High Commissioner to Pakistan Adam Thomson was the chief guest at the occasion. The glamorous ‘Victorian Era’ dresses displayed by various models were artistically designed and created by Amina Jauhar along with Saman Arif and Afifa Tariq. PHOTO: ARIF SOOMRO.

Kayseria holds exhibition to launch its summer collection 2012 in Karachi:

Fauzia.PHOTO COURTESY LOTUS

Fatima Waleed Zaman.PHOTO COURTESY LOTUS

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Creek Vistas Karachi

Cafe de Hunza: A thoroughly western cafe in Hunza. The only one of its kind in Pakistan, where you can go sit, drink coffee and read. They have good snacks also. Everyone going to Hunza ends up coming here. Highly recommended.

 Crossing the Gilgit River the good old way. Yasin Valley, Gilgit.

Multan’s famous khussas. PHOTOS: SAHAR HABIB

Sunsilk heads over to Park Towers Karachi:

Zarfishan

Ayesha

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Karachi Gymkhana Ground, overlooking downtown Karachi.

Lahore: Monument, Punjab Assembly House.

Indus River

Originating in the Tibetan plateau in the vicinity of Lake Mansarovar, the river runs a course through the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit, Baltistan and flows through Pakistan in a southerly direction along the entire length of Pakistan to merge into the Arabian Sea near the port city of Karachi in Sindh. The total length of the river is 3,180 km (1,980 mi). It is Pakistan's longest river and the twenty-second largest river in the world, in terms of length.

Shangri La Resort

Sherry Rehman (R) and Shehrbano Taseer (L) feature in Newsweek's list of 150 fearless women.

Pakistan Ambassador to the US, Sherry Rehman and daughter of slain Punjab governor Shehrban Taseer, have featured on The Daily Beast (Newsweek) list of 150 fearless women.

Islamabad:

Workers of different NGOs light candles to mark International Women’s Day at Super Market. online

International frozen yogurt chain Snog is the latest one to hop into the Pakistani market. PHOTO: PUBLICITY

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Pakistani journalist and documentarian Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s and Daniel Junge latest venture Saving Face has won an Oscar award under the category ‘Best Documentary, Short Subject’.

In her acceptance speech, Chinoy dedicated the award to “all the heroes working on the ground in Pakistan”

“All the women in Pakistan working for change, don’t give up on your dreams, this is for you,” she said. Reuters / APP

 

 

A vigil in the memory of Shahbaz Bhatti was held at the Liberty roundabout in Gulberg and attended by representatives of Institute for Peace and Secular Studies, Centre for Human Rights Education, the Justice and Peace Commission, the Ecumenical Commission for Human Development and other civil society groups. Daily Times

K2 (also known as Savage Mountain, Mountaineer's Mountain, Mount Godwin-Austen, Balti: Chogori and Sarikoli: Mount Qogir) is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest. With a peak

elevation of 8,611 m (28,251 feet), K2 is part of the Karakoram Range, and is located on the border between Baltistan, in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, and the Taxkorgan Tajik AutonomousCounty of Xinjiang, China^. It is more hazardous to reach K2 from the Chinese side; thus, it is mostly climbed from the Pakistani side.

RaniK ot Sindhi: The Great Wall of Sindh also known as Deware Sindh in sindhi language is the world's largest fort with a circumference of about 26 km or 16 miles. Since 1993, it has been on the list of tentative UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Peregrine Falcon is the state bird of the country recognized as "Shaheen" and officially the military iconic symbol of the PAF

A girl picks out a "Guddi"(a Pakistani kite) made out of cane at a handicrafts display in Peshawar. PHOTO: INP

Ellemint Pret holds a multi-designer exhibition, Welcome 2012, in Lahore.