Baluchistan

Ziarat: The place where the founder of the nation spent his last days

West of the Indus Plains, or Southwest of Pakistan, the largest province: Baluchistan. The province is about 343,000 square kilometers in size, and consists of deserts, valleys, and hills. In winter, the temprature falls to as low as chilly -30 degrees Celcius while summers are mild of about 18 to 30 degrees Celcius. The province has been influenced by the civilizations residing in Indus and Dir valleys, and later by the Indus River Valley civilization.
Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan, is the famous town of Ziarat, a place where Quaid-e-Azam, the founder of the nation, spent his last days. Juniper forest, one of its kind in the world, are located in Baluchistan. Few Juniper trees have ages in excess of thousand years. Snow in the winters cap the forest, providing a breathtaking scenic view. Indeed, Balochistan is a province of contrasts. It has some of the bleakest landscape in the country with grim, jagged mountains, barren and arid land where the sparse greenery shrivels and wilts, but hidden away are some stunningly beautiful places.

Sindh

Mohenjadaro Ruins

To East of Baluchistan is Sindh, the third largest province of Pakistan, and to the north is Punjab. Karachi, its capital, is the largest and the most populous city of Pakistan. Karachi offers a variety of pleasant attractions: wide sunny beaches, deep-sea fishing, yachting, golf, and horse racing throughout the year. The restaurants in the city provide a wide variety of Pakistani and Western cuisine. Its markets and bazaars offer a variety of shopping including indigenous handicrafts, rugs and carpets. Within the city, talented artisans with age-old skills produce handicrafts of exquisite beauty. Moenjodaro, the ruin city of The Indus Valley Civilization, is situated on the banks of the Indus Valley in Sindh.

Clifton Beach in Karachi

Punjab

Sheesh Mahal

The Punjab meaning "Land of Five Rivers", is the second largest province of Pakistan. It is the richest, most fertile and most heavily populated province of Pakistan. Lahore- the Provincial Capital, Multan, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Wazirabad, Sargodha, Faisalabad and Bhawalpur are few of the attractive cities of the country.

Jehangir Tomb Lahore Fort Shalimar Gardens

The province of Punjab shares its boundries with NWFP in the north-west, Balochistan in the west, Sind in the South and India on the East. The province's name literally means "five-rivers". Namely, Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi and Sutlej are the five rivers. The best time to visit northern Punjab is in the spring, from February to April, and in the autumn, from September to November. Southern Punjab is extremely hot in summer, so Multan is at its best in winter, from November to February. Punjab, like Sindh, is full of historical and archaelogical sites. Lahore and Multan themselves offer rich historical and cultural attractions along with treasures of archaelogical sites.

NWFP
(north west frontier province)

Hindu Kush Mountains

The North-West Frontier Province is the smallest of all the provinces. It is also abriviated as NWFP. It shares a common border for over 1,100 km (680 miles) with Afghanistan. It also shares border with Balochistan on the west and Punjab on the east. The city of Peshawar is its capital. The northern half of the province consists of five river valleys.Running roughly parallel, north to south, are the Chitral, Dir, Swat,Indus and Kunhar (Kaghan) valleys. Northern Chitral and the upper regions of the Indus Valley are mountainous deserts.. The regions south of Peshawar recieve low amounts of Monsoon rains, thereby consist of dry, low, rocky mountains.

Islamia College

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