When You Think About Pakistan
I bet you think of crazy roads crazy traffic dust flying everywhere perhaps rickshaws flying in and out of tight spaces and also crazy different types of aromas from all the spices coming out of street side stalls.
But what i bet you don't think of, is incredibly wide paved beautiful roads with no traffic incredible architecture and incredible lush greenery look at this city Islamabad Pakistan. Islamabad is the Capital of Pakistan and Second most beautiful city in the Would. Islamabad is completely different from the rest of pakistan. There are actually really interesting historical and cultural contexts as to why that is so.
We're going to go around islamabad a little bit as i go around islam by a little bit as well and a little bit a little a little bit. About that history. Let's do it thumbnail shot. Let's see this is a good thumbnail right here:-
We won't believe this is Pakistan's Capital City. You didn't know Pakistan has a metro. Did you this metro actually connects the city of Islamabad with Islamabad sister city known as Rawalpindi. We need to take this metro there because that's where the history of islamabad starts. Islamabad was actually doesn't have a long history itself. After the partition of India after the British Raj left and Pakistan was created. Karachi was the Capital of Pakistan.But then it was later decided that they needed to move the Capital to a better place. Because Karachi as you super far from the rest of the Country. So Rawalpindi was actually dedicated as the first temporary Capital of Pakistan and then a bigger more modern Capital was planned and built.
In 14 August 1967 the Pakistani President Muhammad Ayub Khan officially declared Islamabad the Capital of Pakistan. so islamabad is a completely planned city. It's not like many other Capital Cities. Where the city was there and then the Capital was moved there this was completely planned they planned the roads the infrastructure the architecture everything which is why it's so spread out which is. Why it's so nice with greenery why you don't get crazy congestion and why you don't get like.
Some nice roads and then you get other teeny tiny tiny roads that you can't even fit between. Yeah it's because of the planning that went into this place. I need to go back in and get a ticket and go get some food. Because it's so spread out only 30 rupees for a ticket on this metro that's like that's not even 15 to 20 cents. That's crazy cheap my friend told me that they're actually losing money on this. I can i guess and i can understand why this thing isn't going to be incredibly easy to lose. City is divided into their zones and known for forests cleanliness and several landmarks.
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