Pakistan is a country in South Asia. It is the world’s fifth-most populous country and the 33rd-largest country, spanning 881,913 square kilometres (340,509 square miles).
Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China to the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor in the northwest, and also shares a maritime border with Oman.
Created during the partition of India as a Muslim-majority region, Pakistan is an ethnically and linguistically diverse country, with similarly diverse geography and wildlife.
A middle power, Pakistan has the sixth-largest standing armed forces in the world and is also a nuclear power as well as a declared nuclear-weapons state. It is a member of the UN, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the OIC, the Commonwealth of Nations, the SAARC, the Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition, and is a major non-NATO ally.
These fascinating photos were taken by nickphoto21 that documented everyday life of Pakistan in late 1969 and early 1970.
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| Old Lahore bazaar |
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| Old Lahore bazaar |
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| Bhoe Asal |
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| Chang Manga. A weaver at a village sits in the shade |
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| Chang Manga. An open sewer runs down the centre of this village street whilst the buffalo lies in the sun |
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