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Hunza Gilgit, Pakistan |
Pakistan, being one of the largest Muslim countries
of the world, is home to the different civilizations of the world. Though
currently Pakistan is infamous for some extremist activities but its natural
beauty and tourist attraction is worth more than this all. Unlike other
countries, Pakistan is facing a very difficult time nowadays being involved in
terrorism, which has disturbed the livelihood of every .It is not happening in
every corner of Pakistan but there are few places which have put the whole
country in trouble. Just the few questions I want to raise here. We Pakistanies
were living a better life than now just before the incident of 9/11-the
incident which history recalls with red lines.. We just believed blindly in
whatever our media said. But the question is, did we have any proven evidence
about 9/11? Have we ever tried to stop
for what happened after 9/11? Has USA ever shared the evidence with its
International community about how it happened with twin towers? Though there
come a lot of questions but let bygones bygone and make yourself ready for the
forthcomings keeping past experiences and lessons in our minds. “the more you
go through the troubles, the most these will make you ready to face problems
without any fears”. Since the inception of Pakistan, there have been a huge
number of difficulties that our country is consistently facing and now rather
it has fallen into a vicious circle. The intriguing thing is that we are
surviving with those difficulties and nothing can stop us to go further and
make improvements.
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Kaghan Naran lake, GB-Pakistan |
Apart from all these stuff, I will discuss a part of
positivity in our country. The part of positivity, of which every Pakistani
folk is fully proud and every citizen of the country is optimistic about the
country they owe. Due to which there is a flight of hope in everyone’s heart
that one day they would get their Pakistan in the condition where they could
live their lives very cozy and happily.
There is a saying goes by MiCheal King “if you have
a little extra parking, I err on the side of getting rid of it in favor of
having some more greenery.”
Pakistan
is overwhelmingly known for the natural beauty it has. There are various places
in Pakistan, of which many people are aspiring to visit in, which really depict
the positive image of our country. We had seen many exotic people rushing into
our country just to get rejoiced over here by sightseeing the beautiful areas
in our country. It doesn’t only happen in summers but same case goes in winters
too. People from different vicinities visit Pakistan to see snow capped
mountains and areas like northern areas of Pakistan. Pakistan is a land of
varied and unique landscape. While high mountain ranges dominate its North,
series of low mountain ranges of Suleman, Pub, Kirthar and Mekran extend from
North to Southwest and to South in a bone like manner. These low ranges
dominate the plains and deserts to the East and warm and captivating beaches of
the Arabian Sea to the South. It is, however, Northern Pakistan which is
endowed with most unique geographical feature in the world. It is here that the
three great, lofty and spectacular mountain ranges, Karakoram, Hindukush and
Himalayas meet. In an area of about 500 kms in width and 350 kms in depth, is
found the most dense collection of some of the highest and precipitous peaks in
the world, boasting more than 700 peaks above 6000 metres, and more than 160
peaks above 7000 metres.
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Kurumber lake, GB-Pakistan |
These
include five out of the total fourteen above eight thousand metre high peaks on
earth, namely the second highest rock pyramid - the K-2 the killer mountain
Nanga Parbat, the Hidden Peak, Gasherbrum I, the Broad Peak and the Gasherbrum
II. There
are 99 mountain peaks in Pakistan, height ranges from 22966-28267feet,
including K-2-the second highest mountain of the world. Around 70 of these
mountains are present in the list of world’s top 150 highest peaks. Most of these peaks are already climbed by
foreigners but there are few which are unclimbed yet because the difficulty and
the steepness of the mountains; for example as mentioned above that “the killer
mountain-NANGA PARBAT” is one of the most dangerous mountains to climb. Yet
there have been many attempts but it led them to death. These all mountains go
snowy in the winter season and get greened in the summers which display a very
eye resting scenario for the viewers. This enormous mountain wealth makes Pakistan an
important mountain country, offering great opportunities for mountaineering and
mountain related adventure activities. The area is aptly called a paradise for
mountaineers, adventure seekers and nature lovers. The compelling charm of
these high challenging and endless sea of rugged rock and ice pinnacles lure
large number of climbers, adventure seekers and nature lovers from across the
five continents to the Northern Areas and Chitral, each year.
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Chain of mountains in pakistan. |
Apart from its natural beauty, the diversity of different
civilizations also attracts people towards itself. People come here to know the
different civilizations of Pakistan which thrived back in many hundreds of
thousand years. The cultural plus
archaeological tourism has found in Taxila, Harrappa, Moenjodaro. The early
Muslim heritages are in Multan and Lahore. For hundreds of years, Silk Road
remained the only trading way between the central and the south Asia. The
Karakurum highway(KKH), which connects Pakistan with china via the northern
areas of Pakistan, has given a very great opportunities to rest of world to
explore the unspoiled beauty of Gilgit-Baltistan and its different cultures
altogether with many central Asian countries.
The places which are termed as tourist
sites in Pakistan are Gilgit, Chital, Kaghan Valley, Peshawar, Multan, Lahore,
Karachi, Quetta, Islamabad, Skardu and Swat.
There is no match of Pakistan’s glaciers
and mountains with any other countries of the world. Gilgit-baltistan,
including valleys like Hunza and Iskurdo, has the greatest number of glaciers
and mountains including the world’s number second highest mountain and i.e K2.
And this has played a great roll in proliferation of the different cultures of
Pakistan in the whole world.
Gilgit is also famous for the sports and
more because of the very enthusiastic game polo it plays. Many overseas people
come to watch this particular match in its season. Hunza, so called paradise on
the earth is located among the green and snow bounded mountains. It’s also
famous because of the natural diet-the people use. And this connects KKH to
China and thus it’s also called as the heart of KKH.
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North Pakistan |
Picturesque Kaghan Valley is famous for
its height, Saif ul Muluk lake and the Naran valley where it is situated. These are the only popular scenic spots of
this valley. Karachi-being the metropolitan city of Pakistan is well equipped
with seaports and it also owes a variety of attractions. It is combination of
many different civilizations. It is the only commercial and industrial hub Pakistan.
There are many historical monuments which attract many tourists towards it. For
example, Mosque of Toba, mausoleum of Quaid-e-Azam-where the father of the
nation Quaid-e-Azam lies, national museum where you can get ancient relics of
Indus valley and a good collection of different civilizations art.
Lahore is the old city of Pakistan with
its unique history. There one can find many historical points and the very
oldest university. The Moghal fort is the only place in Lahore where one can
see many architectural phases of Moghal umpire. Hiran Minar and Harappa are
also very fascinating places for the tourists to visit. Harappa, revealing the
ancient cultures, now just left a cradle of one of the earliest civilizations. Nevertheless,
Pakistan site areas are also famous for the hospitality towards their guests.
Overall, Pakistan is one of
the most fascinating areas of the world. Pakistan is gifted with the
overwhelming beauty and the ultimate diversified societies. Unfortunately the
socio-economics, socio-political and contemporary circumstances of our country
have made this all gifted nature just worthless. In spite of these worst
situations we still see a lot of foreigners in our country searching for
adventures. If in future Pakistan will invest some of its budget in Pakistan’s
tourism development then of course it will not only create a good image of our
country abroad but it also overcome its economical crisis to a great extent.