Cities of Pakistan

Islamabad

Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. The population of the city has increased from 100,000 in 1995 to 1.21 million in 2009.The Rawalpindi/Islamabad Metropolitan Area is the third largest in Pakistan with a population of over 4.5 million inhabitants. Islamabad is a well-organized city divided into different sectors and zones. It was ranked as a Gamma world city in 2008.The city is home to Faisal Mosque, the largest mosque in South Asia and the sixth largest mosque in the world.

 

Islamabad Secretariat

Faisal Masjid

View of Islamabad

Supreme Court

 

Quetta

Quetta is the largest city and the provincial capital of the Balochistan Province of Pakistan. Known as the "Fruit Garden of Pakistan" due to the diversity of its plant and animal wildlife, Quetta is home to the Hazarganji Chiltan National Park, which contains some of the rarest species of wildlife in the world. The city is situated at an average elevation of 1,654 metres (5,429 ft) above sea level, making it Pakistan's only high-altitude major city. The city is in a seismically active area , and was leveled by the 1935 Balochistan earthquake.

 

A night time aerial view of the city

Hanna Lake

Hanna Lake

Quetta Railway

 

Gwadar

Gwadar is a developing port city on the southwestern Arabian Sea coast of Pakistan. It is the district headquarters of Gwadar District in Balochistan province and has a population of approximately 50,000. Gwadar is one of the few planned cities in Pakistan, which have been developed from scratch under an urban master plan. Before development, the town was a fishing village.

 

Gwadar Port

Gwadar Beach

Gwadar Port

View from Koh-I-Batil of Gwadar Port

 

Peshawar

Peshawar (Pishor), is the capital of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative centre (and the central business hub) for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan The Kushan king Kanishka, moved the capital from Pushkalavati (now .called Charsadda in the Peshawar valley) to Purushapura in the 2nd century CE, and in the eighteenth century, the Durrani king Timur Shah Durrani made Peshawar the winter capital of Afghanistan, and it remained as the winter capital until the Sikhs rose to power in the early nineteenth century.

 

Islamia University

Oldest Living City' in South Asiah

The Bab e Khyber

View along a commercial street

 

Abbottabad

Abbottabad is a city located in the Hazara region of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Pakistan. The city is situated in the Orash Valley, 50 kilometres (31 mi) northeast of the capital Islamabad and 150 kilometres (93 mi) east of Peshawar at an altitude of 1,260 metres (4,134 ft) and is the capital of the Abbottabad District. The city is well-known throughout Pakistan for its pleasant weather, high-standard educational institutions and military establishments.

 

Sarban Hills

Harnoi, Abbotabad

Jinnah Gardens

Abbottabad's Old Heritage

 

Lahore

Lahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi. The city lies along the Ravi River, situated approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) from the Wagah border crossing and is 32 kilometres (20 mi) from the Indian city of Amritsar. According to the 1998 census, Lahore's population was 6,318,745. A mid-2006 government estimate now puts the population at approximately 10 million. It is ranked 40 in the most populated urban areas in the world and the 8th largest city within the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

 

Minar-e-Pakistan

Chauburji

Shalimar Gardens

Lahore Airport

 

Faisalabad

Faisalabad is a city in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. It was formerly known as Lyallpur. Faisalabad is the third largest city in Pakistan after Karachi and Lahore. Before the foundation of the city in 1880, the area was very thinly populated. The population has risen from 9,171 in 1901 to 979,000 in 1951 and to 2,009,000 in 2000.The larger Faisalabad district had a population of about 5.4 million in 2008. The city is at a road and railway junction, which has played an influential role in the development of Faisalabad's trade and economy.

 

Faisalabad Clock Tower

Agriculture University

Faisalabad Serena Hotel

Fawara Chowk

 

Rawalpindi

Rawalpindi is a city in the Pothohar region of Pakistan near Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad, in the province of Punjab. Rawalpindi is the third largest city in Pakistan after Karachi and Lahore. In the 1950s, Rawalpindi was smaller than Hyderabad and Multan, but the city's economy received a boost during the building of Islamabad (1959–1969), during which time Rawalpindi served as the national capital and its population increased from 180,000 at the time of independence to over 4.5 million in 2007 Rawalpindi, locally known as Pindi, named after Raja Pindi.

 

The Mosque at Gulshan Dadan Khan

Saddar Market

Saddar Bazaar

Muree Road

 

Sialkot

Sialkot is a city in Pakistan situated in the north-east of the Punjab province at the foothills of snow-covered peaks of Kashmir near the Chenab river. It is the capital of Sialkot District. The city is about 125 km (78 mi) north-west of Lahore and only a few kilometers from Indian-controlled Jammu. The recorded history of Sialkot covers thousands of years. Sialkot has, since its foundation, changed hands from Hindu, Buddhist, Persian, Greek, Afghan, Turk, Sikh, Muslims and British rule to that of present-day Pakistan.

 

Ghanta Chowk

Ancient Sialkot

KFC Sialkot

Bus Stand Bhalwal

 

Karachi

Karachi) is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million while the metropolitan area has a population of over 13 million. Karachi is the most populous city in the country, one of the world's largest cities in terms of population and the 10th largest urban agglomeration It is Pakistan's premier centre of banking, industry, economic activity and trade and is home to Pakistan's largest corporations, including those involved in textiles, shipping.

 

View Of Karachi

3 Talwaar

St. Patrick's Cathedral

Jinnah Airport

 

Hyderabad

Hyderabad is the second largest city in the Sindh province of Pakistan. It is the fourth largest city in the country. The city was founded in 1768 by Mian Ghulam Shah Kalhoro upon the ruins of a Mauryan fishing village along the bank of the Indus known as Neroon Kot Formerly the capital of Sindh, it serves as the HQ of the district of Hyderabad. Before the creation of Pakistan, it was known as the Paris of India, for its roads used to be washed with river water.

 

Beauty of Hyderabad Pakistan

Hyderabad Fort (Masd)

Kotri-bridge Hyderabad Pakistan

Hyderabad Bus Stand