Pakistan Army Documentary wins First Prize in International Film Festival “Eserciti-e-Popoli”

Rawalpindi - Inter Services Public Relations documentary has won the first prize in the recently held International Film Festival “Eserciti-e-Popoli” (Army and People) held at Bracciano, Rome (Italy).  The festival saw the participation of NATO and 24 Countries with 60 Films grouped into several categories: from ‘Institutional training information, from environmental protection to the humanitarian mission for peace. The films, produced by renowned film makers were evaluated by the international highly qualified and experienced jury.


Based on true events, Glorious Resolve highlights the events took place when a group of around 1500 miscreants attacked Pakistani Check post of  an Infantry Battalion in South Waziristan Agency on the eve of 29th May 2009 . It focuses on the courage displayed by the Infantry Soldiers and the Punjab Regiment , 43 men of Punjab regiment laid their lives, they were the part of the reinforcements .


Glorious Resolveiss the joint venture of ISPR and Mindworks Media.Brigadier Syed Azmat Ali was the Executive Producer whereas Brig Syed Mujtaba Tirmizi was the Executive Director of the film. Lieutenant Colonel Irfan Aziz was the project director and the writer of this film which was amicably directed by Sarosh Kayani. Dr Hassan Waqas Rana of Mindworks Media was the producer whereas Bilal Lashari was the Director of Photography.

The Short Film can we watched here

Part 2

Children’s rights activist – Malala Yousafzai

Many people have landed on this blog for the update on Malala Yousafzai who is a Children’s rights activist hailing from Mingora, Swat. There is a post on my blog which has some links to the videos about her that were published in NYtimes.
Malala Yousafzai is the first Pakistani child who has been nominated for the Peace award on Universal children’s day. This year a total of five children have been nominated from around the globe and Malala is the only one from Pakistan.

We truly salute your efforts, Malala. May you continue to work for the betterment of Pakistan and for the children who are denied the basic right to education. Pakistan needs people like you.
Here’s the updated article from Urdu BBC news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/2011/11/111118_swat_girl_award_bbc_nj.shtml .
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✿✿✿✿✿ ~HAPPY EID UL ADHA~ ✿✿✿✿✿

 Eid -Ul -Adha is one of the special festivals celebrated by Muslims irrespective of the fact, that wherever a Muslim person is, the festival of Eid -Ul -Adha is celebrated with lot of enthusiasm. This year it is falling on 7th November, 2011.

Muslims celebrate the festival of Eid -Ul –Adha in remembrance of prophet Abraham’s readiness to sacrifice his son Ishmael to God. On Eid -Ul –Adha Muslims sacrifice their domestic animals,

like goat, sheep, cow, camel etc. This sacrifice of animals is made by Muslims to pay a tribute to prophet Abraham, as he was ready to sacrifice his son but God gave him a Sheep to sacrifice.
Eid -Ul –Adha celebrations occur after the Hajj and the festival of Eid -Ul –Adha is celebrated on the tenth day of the last month of Islamic year, Duhl- Hijja. Eid -Ul –Adha is known through several names across the world and this festival of sacrifice is celebrated for several days in some areas of the country. It is seen that Muslims celebrate this festival with great excitement no matter where they are.

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⊹⊱✿ Sunnah of Eid ✿⊰⊹
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Keeping with the tradition of Prophet Muhammad (saw), Muslims are encouraged to prepare themselves for the occasion of Eid. Below is a list of things Muslims should do in preparation for Eid:
... ✿ Wake up early.
✿ Offer Salat al-Fajr.
✿ Prepare for personal cleanliness, take care of details of clothing, etc.
Take a Ghusl (bath) after Fajr.
✿ Brush teeth with miswak.
✿ Dress up, putting on best clothes available, whether new or cleaned old ones.
✿ Use perfume or attar (men only).
✿ Have breakfast on Eid al-Zuha before leaving for prayer ground (Eidgah). One can take breakfast after Salaat also or after sacrifice if he is offering a sacrifice.
✿ Go to prayer ground (Eidgah) early.
✿ Offer Salaat-al-Eid in congregation in an open place except when whether is not permitting like rain, snow, etc.
✿ Use two separate route to and from the prayer ground.
✿ Recite the following Takbir which starts from Mughrib on the 9th Dhu al-hijah and last until the Asr on the 12th Dhu al-ilhijah:
ALLAHU-AKBAR, ALLAHU-AKBAR. LA ILA-HA ILL-LAL-LAH. ALLAHU-AKBAR, ALLAHU-AKBAR WA-LILAHILL HAMD.
(ALLAH is great, ALLAH is great. There is no god but ALLAH. ALLAH is great, ALLAH is great. And all praises are for ALLAH).

✿✿✿✿✿ ~HAPPY EID UL ADHA~ ✿✿✿✿✿
MAY ALMIGHTY ALLAH BLESS ALL OF US .. MAY ALMIGHTY ALLAH FORGIVE OUR TRANSGRESSIONS AND BESTOW HIS MERCY ON US ...FORGIVE OUR SINS AND GUIDE US TO THE STRAIGHT PATH TO JANNAH .... AAMEEN

"And the Budn (cows, oxen, or camels driven to be offered as
sacrifices by the pilgrims at the
sanctuary of Makkah.) We have made
for you as among the Symbols of
Allâh, therein you have much good.
So mention the Name of Allâh over them when they are drawn up in
lines (for sacrifice). Then, when they
are down on their sides (after
slaughter), eat thereof, and feed the
beggar who does not ask (men), and
the beggar who asks (men). Thus have We made them subject to you
that you may be grateful. 37. It is neither their meat nor their blood that reaches Allâh, but it is
piety from you that reaches Him.
Thus have We made them subject to
you that you may magnify Allâh for
His Guidance to you. And give glad tidings (O Muhammad ) to the Muhsinûn (doers of good)".(Surah Hajj)
Holly Quran

The father of Farman Ali receives the highest national award of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). (Nov 2011)

Farman Ali, 32, who belongs to Swat, saved the lives of 14 Saudia who were stranded in flood water in Jeddah during the devastating November 2009 rains. While saving the lives, he died later. A road has also been named after him in Jeddha.

Pakistani who saved 14 lives honoured by Saudi Arabia

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has hounoured a Pakistani who had laid his life to save 14 others from drowning during torrential rains/flooding in Jeddah back in 2009.

Saudi government has, posthumously, not only bestowed the highest civil award on Farman Ali but also named a highway after him.

This valourous countryman who has now come under a heroic spotlight forever is a martyr as he during those drastic floods gave life to as many as 14 of his fellow countryman but lost his own in the end.

Farman comes from Swat and has left behind a widow and three daughters.


Published: October 27, 2011on The News

ISLAMABAD (APP) - A young ordinary Pakistani worker, Farman Ali Khan, who rescued 14 lives during floods in Jeddah, before scarifying his own life had been honoured by the Saudi government with the highest Civil Saudi Award.

Farman Ali Khan will be posthumously awarded the “King Abdul Aziz Medal” of the First Order in appreciation of his heroic humanitarian act, according to an official statement of Saudi Arabia.
“Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah approved the honour for Farman Ali Khan for saving 14 people during the Jeddah floods,” said the statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency on Wednesday. Last March, President Asif Ali Zardari conferred a gallantry medal posthumously on Khan and his wife received the award during a ceremony held at the President’s house in Islamabad on the occasion of the Pakistan National Day. Farman Ali Khan, originally from Swat, was living in Jeddah for seven years where he was running a small shop. When flood came in Jeddah on November 26, 2009, he was sitting in his shop. Many persons got stuck up on that street in the flood water where Farman’s shop was located.
When Farman saw the scene, he couldn’t resist himself and went on to save the lives of people and succeeded in rescuing 14 persons but lost his own life during this rescue efforts. Farman Ali Khan survived by his widow and three daughters Zubaida 7, Madeeha 6 and Jarira 4. Saudi Ambassador in Islamabad also held a meeting with the brother and father of late Farman Ali Khan and paid tribute to Farman Ali Khan and quoted him as an Islamic Hero. The Saudi Ambassador offered financial assistance to Farman brother and father, but they refused to accept any financial assistance. The Saudi Ambassador told the father of Farman Ali Khan that the Saudi Government has decided to name the street with Farman’s name where Farman succumbed while saving the lives of people. The Saudi Ambassador also announced that the Saudi Government will also award Farman Ali Khan with the highest Saudi Civil Award.
Meanwhile, World Assembly of Muslim Youth also paid tribute to Farman Ali Khan for his efforts to save the lives of 14 persons. The Pakistani community in Jeddah also appreciated the efforts of Farman Ali Khan to save the lives of 14 persons and scarified his own life.
The newspapers published detailed stories along with the photos of Farman Ali Khan. The Pakistani community declared Farman as a “hero” and said he was a hero who deserved to be honoured for his humanitarian service during the floods. The community was of the view that Farman, a member of the Pakistani community in Saudi Arabia had proved by sacrificing his life that Pakistanis and Saudis are brothers enjoying close ties. The Pakistani community living in Saudi Arabia was also planning to build a school and mosque in Khan’s district `Khawaza Kheila’ in Swat. “The mosque and the school would be named after Farman Ali Khan in order to remember Khan’s voluntary work for Muslims in Saudi Arabia. Khan, 32, came to Saudi Arabia in 2001 to work in a grocery store located in Jeddah. According to reports, Farman used tire tubes, wooden planks and ropes to save 14 people and he was trying to save the 15th person when the water swept him away.

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Pakistan A tourist paradise

Sunday, May 22, 2011
posted by Posted by Shahzad Afzal

Pakistan A Heaven On Earth

Pakistan A Heaven On Earth, Pakistan is blessed by natural beauty there are hundred of places to visit. World second largest Mountain K-2 is located in Pakistan.

Pakistan has its own tourism attraction because of its diverse cultures, peoples and landscapes. The variety of attractions ranges from the ruins of ancient civilisations such as Mohenjo-daro, Harappa and Taxila, to the Himalayan hill-stations, that attract those interested in field and winter sports. Pakistan also has five out of fourteen mountain peaks of height over 8,000 metres (26,250 ft), that attract adventurers and mountaineers from around the world, especially to K2. From April to September, domestic and international visitors to these areas bring tourist income to the local people.

Shangrilla resorts & Lake 

Deosai  Pakistan

The Deosai National Park is located in Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.

In Balochistan there are many caves for cavers and tourists to visit especially the Juniper Shaft Cave, the Murghagull Gharra cave, Mughall saa cave, and Pakistan's naturally decorated cave, the Mangocher Cave. Pakistan is a member country of the Union International de Spéléologie (UIS).

Beautiful Sheosar lake in Deosai,Pakistan

Monument, Islamabad

A waterfall located at Pir Ghaib near Bolan in Balochistan.It is so blue and Beautiful that we cant even think that it is located inside the barren landscape

The northern parts of Pakistan are home to several historical fortresses, towers and other architecture including the Hunza and Chitral valleys, the latter being home to the Kalash, a small pre-Islamic Animist community.Punjab is also the site of Alexander's battle on the Jhelum River. The historic city of Lahore is considered Pakistan's cultural centre and has many examples of Mughal architecture such as the Badshahi Masjid, Shalimar Gardens, Tomb of Jahangir and the Lahore Fort. The Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) also helps promote tourism in the country. However, tourism is still limited because of the lack of proper infrastructure and the worsening security situation in the country. The recent militancy in Pakistan's scenic sites, including Swat in Khybar Pakhtoon Kawa province, have dealt a massive blow to the tourism industry. Many of the troubles in these tourist destinations are also blamed on the frail travel network, tourism regulatory framework, low prioritisation of the tourism industry by the government, low effectiveness of marketing and a constricted tourism perception. After these areas were being cleared off the militant groups in late 2009, the government, with financial support from the USAID, started a campaign to reintroduce tourism in Swat valley. Pakistan receives 500,000 tourists annually, with almost half of them heading to northern Pakistan.

Amazingly Beautiful Shimshal Lake

The beautiful snow clad mountains at Siri Paye,Pakistan

Hingol National Park is the largest National Park in Balochistan Pakistan . It was established in 1988. Hingol River flows through the national park before emptying into the Arabian Sea

Hingol National Park

Jhalked The beautiful place in kaghan valley.

Malam Jabba

Malamjabba Resort

Neelum Valley in Azad jammu and Kashmir which is in Pakistan's Control

Strange landscape on the way to Gwadar from Karachi.On the way you will see plenty of viewslike this

The Beautiful flowers spreaded on babusar Pass ,Pakistan.2There were flowers of almost every color there

The beautiful Karambar lake and Karambar Pass at 4300 m approx above sea level in Chitral,Pakistan

The beautiful mountains of Hindu raj in Ishkoman resembles almost the China 's Tibet in their beauty

The beautiful river Swat passing through beautiful forests in Swat valley Pakistan

The beautiful valley of Chillam in northern areas of Pakistan .

The Beautiful Village in the Mountains of Hindu Raj named as Kishmanja in Upper yarkhun valley,Chitral

This lake is located in Neelum Valley ,Ajk(Azad Jammu & Kashmir ) Pakistan.The name of lake is Chitta Katha

 

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Pakistani Independence Day Celebrations

Pakistani Independence Day Celebrations

Pakistani Independence Day Celebrations, Pakistan Sovereignty Day, Pakistani Freedom Day, Pakistani Liberty Day, Pakistani Self-Determination Day, Pakistani Self-Rule Day, Pakistani Autonomy Day, Jashn-e-Azadi Pakistan Mubarik  (14th August), Jashn-a-Azadi, Jashane Aazadi, Jashun-a-Azadi, 14-August, Pakistan ki Aazdi ka Din

Pakistani Independence Day Celebrations, Pakistan Sovereignty Day, Pakistani Freedom Day, Pakistani Liberty Day, Pakistani Self-Determination Day, Pakistani Self-Rule Day, Pakistani Autonomy Day, Jashn-e-Azadi Pakistan Mubarik  (14th August), Jashn-a-Azadi, Jashane Aazadi, Jashun-a-Azadi, 14-August, Pakistan ki Aazdi ka Din

Pakistani Independence Day Celebrations, Pakistan Sovereignty Day, Pakistani Freedom Day, Pakistani Liberty Day, Pakistani Self-Determination Day, Pakistani Self-Rule Day, Pakistani Autonomy Day, Jashn-e-Azadi Pakistan Mubarik  (14th August), Jashn-a-Azadi, Jashane Aazadi, Jashun-a-Azadi, 14-August, Pakistan ki Aazdi ka Din

Pakistani Independence Day Celebrations, Pakistan Sovereignty Day, Pakistani Freedom Day, Pakistani Liberty Day, Pakistani Self-Determination Day, Pakistani Self-Rule Day, Pakistani Autonomy Day, Jashn-e-Azadi Pakistan Mubarik  (14th August), Jashn-a-Azadi, Jashane Aazadi, Jashun-a-Azadi, 14-August, Pakistan ki Aazdi ka Din

Pakistani Independence Day Celebrations, Pakistan Sovereignty Day, Pakistani Freedom Day, Pakistani Liberty Day, Pakistani Self-Determination Day, Pakistani Self-Rule Day, Pakistani Autonomy Day, Jashn-e-Azadi Pakistan Mubarik  (14th August), Jashn-a-Azadi, Jashane Aazadi, Jashun-a-Azadi, 14-August, Pakistan ki Aazdi ka Din





Pakistani Independence Day Celebrations, Pakistan Sovereignty Day, Pakistani Freedom Day, Pakistani Liberty Day, Pakistani Self-Determination Day, Pakistani Self-Rule Day, Pakistani Autonomy Day, Jashn-e-Azadi Pakistan Mubarik  (14th August), Jashn-a-Azadi, Jashane Aazadi, Jashun-a-Azadi, 14-August, Pakistan ki Aazdi ka Din

Pakistani Independence Day Celebrations, Pakistan Sovereignty Day, Pakistani Freedom Day, Pakistani Liberty Day, Pakistani Self-Determination Day, Pakistani Self-Rule Day, Pakistani Autonomy Day, Jashn-e-Azadi Pakistan Mubarik  (14th August), Jashn-a-Azadi, Jashane Aazadi, Jashun-a-Azadi, 14-August, Pakistan ki Aazdi ka Din
with thanks to 

http://mydiaryblogsite.blogspot.com/2011/08/pakistani-independence-day-celebrations.html

Jinnah The Great Leader

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Pakistan, the nation the Quaid-i-Azam founded, needs him and his values more than ever.

In Pakistan, Jinnah is venerated because his struggles on behalf of the Muslims of India resulted in the establishment of the country. But Jinnah’s true claim to greatness as an Asian leader is more universal: he sought to protect the rights of minorities through constitutional law.

Jinnah was a secular, Westernized, British-trained barrister; himself a Muslim, he married a Parsi, spoke mainly in English and wore European clothes. In 1920, he left Mahatma Gandhi’s Indian National Congress, of which he had been a member for two decades, not because of his own faith but because he believed Gandhi’s use of Hindu symbolism would encourage religious zealotry in politics. As Asia emerged from colonization, among the most vexing problems facing the continent’s nascent nation states was that of their large minority populations. Jinnah’s preferred solution was a legal one: constitutional measures ranging from electoral safeguards to guaranteed representation in state institutions. It was only when his attempts to achieve these measures failed that he began to campaign for a separate state for the Muslims of the subcontinent.

Six decades later, Pakistan has drifted far from Jinnah’s vision of a secular democracy. President Pervez Musharraf, who invokes Jinnah’s values in speeches, has little patience for democracy. The religious opposition parties reject as un-Pakistani the concept of secularism. And the inhabitants of smaller provinces like Baluchistan find themselves lacking the protection for minorities that Jinnah made his life’s mission. If one believes in the rule of law, mistrusts religious zealotry and opposes tyrannies constructed in the name of majorities, one should find it easy to see oneself in Jinnah and to empathize with his struggle. Much of Asia could learn from his example, none more so than those of us who belong to the state he founded.

Long live pakistan, I love it

Pakistan claims some of the tallest mountain peaks in the world. This nation is home to Mughal architecture and archaeological remains in The Indus Valley to the empire of Alexander the Great. Landscapes in Pakistan allow for variety of trees and plants to flourish. The animal life in Pakistan reflects the varied climates of the land.
also green
and you will see what pleasures there are

Pakistan as an Eden

I love my country because

it belongs to us

it is amazing because

it is made by stars

want to know, what we are?

to define, you, soial stars, we are

not only twinkling in the sky but also on earth

to make an edem of this earth

to tell you how great we are

want to see, what kind of flowers there are ?

see our children where ever they are

want to see where they grow

look at our place, as eden can be seen

it is colourfull

also green

and you will see what pleasures there are

Muhammad Emad ul Islam

Khewra Salt Mines Pakistan

Lovely Pakistan

Searching For Heaven, Paradise, Peace

Secret within the Secret
Monday, June 6, 2011

Salman Rashid

The Soon Valley: quiet, secluded glens, thickly wooded with phulai (Acacia modesta) and sanatha (Dodonea viscosa) where the air rings with the call of the koel and the raucous arguments of Indian tree pies; where the lakes, if the season is right, abound with migratory ducks from the frozen marshes of northern Asiatic Tundra; where one can simply lose oneself in a wilderness of hill and forested glen within minutes of wandering away from any village; where clear rills tumble over bleached limestone and where it is still possible to surprise fox cubs frolicking in the thickets.

Such is the magic of the Soon Valley, part of the Punjabi highlands of the Salt Range and known to so few. The dilettantes that do know the Soon and feign to write about it will spell it Soan putting the knowing traveller somewhat off course. While the Soan (pronounced Swaan with a nasal ending) is a river that rises in the Murree hills, sweeps past Islamabad and Rawalpindi, skirts the north-western edge of the Soon valley at a respectable distance and dumps itself into the mighty Sindhu River near Makhad town, it has nothing to do with Soon Valley whose name is pronounced exactly as the English word.

The Soon Valley has many secrets but the one it has kept the best certainly is Kunhuti Bagh. If you dined with, say the Cabinet Secretary in his home in Islamabad in April or May and the dessert included freshly picked Washington Navel or Spanish Valencia oranges, you could be certain they had not been shipped in from across the oceans. This fruit was the pick of Kunhuti Bagh, making the orchard the only producer of off-season citrus fruit in the entire country. But this lasted until about ten years ago.

Official word on the orchard is virtually non-existent and so there is a tale. Kunhuti was some deputy commissioner who set up this garden for his pleasure and gave it his name, so the uninformed local ‘historian’ will tell you. But district records divulge that it was back in 1926 when a certain Major Whitburn, the District Engineer, carried out a survey to select a site for an orchard in order to experiment with non-local citrus varieties. Two things went in favour of this site, first, the climate. At 700 metres above the sea even its hottest summer is yet mild in comparison to the rest of Punjab. Secondly, a copious stream runs through this wild forest which could easily be harnessed for irrigation.

As for the name: a quick run through the list of deputy commissioners of Shahpur district (having since ceded the honour to first Sargodha and then Khushab), there was no official whose name even remotely sounded like Kunhuti. It is a purely local name.

Seventy acres were earmarked for the orchard and plantation began in 1933. Before the decade was over, the Kunhuti orchard was yielding first class Valencia and Navel oranges. That was not all, however. There were peach, apricot, pomegranate and mango trees as well that yielded a goodly harvest.

Things went well until partition and then Kunhuti went the same way as everything else we inherited from the Raj: down the tube. Until the end of the 20th century, the orchard was in the keep of the District Council. With steadily fading interest the council kept it trundling along and was making a meagre income from the annual crop. Then, in 2003, the orchard changed hands to become the responsibility of the Agriculture Department. That, according to one official, rang the death knell for Kunhuti. To begin with, the staff was by and by reduced to just two gardeners: for a garden spread over seventy acres these were scarcely adequate.

Not surprising then that the plantation begun so ambitiously by well-meaning colonial officials has fallen to less than half of its original area. Even so, the remaining trees are mostly diseased. The acreage abandoned by the forest is slowly being encroached upon by wild growth and taking the shape of rank forest. Better this than the area being turned into farmland or, worse yet, built up.

Back in 1990, the first time ever I visited Kunhuti, there were still the two species of orange trees that the orchard was celebrated for. And if one were to go by the gardeners’ report at that time, the District Council was making money auctioning the crop. Ambitious plans were afoot to utilise a small hill within the orchard and experiment with other species of fruits including cherry. One could see that the masters of the orchard were serious for they had laid out a gravity irrigation system to hock the water of the stream up the slope without the use of electricity. Now, seventeen years later, there are no Valencia or Navel oranges, having all died off. Of the many mango trees just one remains. Though trees of other species are still there, most yield very little fruit because of lack of care. Indeed, the pomegranates seen in late August were all blighted and hung shrivelled to the trees.

They only good thing to happen in this once fairy tale garden is the restoration of the old rest house. I do not have a date for its original construction, but it seems to go back to the 1940s. Back in 1990 it had a caved-in roof and I had felt it would soon be pulled down. This time round, the roof was redone, but the interiors of the three rooms were bare. One could at least be thankful for the small mercy of restoration.

Sadly there is no plan to re-introduce the lost species that once did so well in the balmy climes of the Soon Valley. The gardeners reflect the state of disinterest of their department for they could not be bothered about going the extra mile to procure Valencia or Navel saplings from a nursery an hour’s bus ride away. All they do is sit about gossiping and collect their salary at the end of the month. As for the Secretaries Agriculture, both provincial and federal, they may not even know Kunhuti exists.

Although the charm of sampling rare species of oranges in the dry heat of May is gone, yet the nine kilometre drive northward from Khabeki village by the lake of the same name in the heart of the Soon Valley is dramatic. The road winds around hills with deep gorges on the side and strangely shaped buttes rising from the valley floor in a landscape that seems utterly devoid of other human presence. Then suddenly, one is confronted with a tree-lined pathway and in the background the off-whitewashed rest house building.

Though the fruit trees are nearly all but gone, Kunhuti still is a lovely sylvan retreat where the birds sing with the abandon they know only in a pristine forest and the lovely rill still flows pure and untainted. If for nothing else, one must, once in the lifetime, take the nine kilometre-long road for the birdsong.

Fellow of Royal Geographical Society, Salman Rashid is author of several books including jhelum: City of the Vitasta and The Apricot Road to Yarkand, Riders on the Wind, Between two Burrs on the Map, Prisoner on a Bus and Sea Monsters and the Sun God. His work - explorations, traveling and writings - appears in almost all leading publications.

Directions: Get off M-2 at Kallar Kahar and take the road south past Padhrar. At Pail More you turn west for the Soon Valley and the village of Jaba. At Jaba turn south the road goes to Khabekki past the turning to Kunhutti. You are likely to miss the turn to the right as you head for Khabekki. There is actually only one turn to the right. Don’t forget to ask for directions. Bhadon (monsoon) is the best time to visit when the clouds are beautiful.

Records from Pakistan Guinees

Records from Pakistan

In today's vote on our Facebook page, Pakistan comfortably came out in first place, with 369 votes to the United Kingdom's 197, and Japan's 134. As such, the subject of today's blog is records from Pakistan!

The most recent record set in Pakistan was The most people crammed into a Smart car at the end of 2011, when the Pakistan Crashers crammed 19 women into a Smart car in Karachi. 

Pakistan is a nation of cricket-lovers, and the country's cricketers have set several records for the sport. Among them are Shahid Afridi, who has taken the Most wickets in a Twenty20 cricket career (53), and Hanif Mohammad, who back in 1958 had the Longest individual cricket test innings, batting for 16hr 10mins and scoring 337 runs in the process playing against the West Indies.

The largest silver ring was created by master jewelers Amin and Company, weighed in at 71.68kg (158lbs), and had an inner diameter of 85cm (2ft 9in) - a fair bit larger than most people's fingers as you can see!

As well as the people of Pakistan holding records, there are also a handful of records for the country's natural features. One such record is that for the Tallest mountain face: The Rupal face of Nanga Parbat is a single rise of 5000m (16,000ft) from valley floor to the summit - with the mountain itself being the highest in Pakistan and the 8th highest in the world, with a summit at 8125m (26,656ft) above sea level.

Finally, the Largest flaming image using candles was created by 118 Sandoz employees in Faisalabad in 2009, consisting of 35,478 candles. Here's what it looked like before the candles were lit:

Then alight in all its glory!