This resulted in considerable problems for the Pakistani government, particularly its customs bureau who realized that many of the items being resold on the black market in Pakistan were the very same items being allowed duty free exemption from Pakistani ports ( mainly Karachi ) on their way to Afghanistan.

In 2008, a Pakistani religious leader issued a fatwā on President Asif Ali Zardari for " indecent gestures " toward Sarah Palin, U. S. Vice Presidential candidate.

US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, known for his hardline policies on the Soviet Union, initiated in 1979 a campaign supporting mujaheddin in Pakistan and Afghanistan, which was run by Pakistani security services with financial support from the Central Intelligence Agency and Britain's MI6.

In January 2009, the British tabloid News of the World revealed a video made by Harry three years previously, in which he referred to a Pakistani fellow officer cadet as " our little Paki friend " and later called a soldier wearing a cloth on his head a " raghead ".

According to Pakistani Afghanistan expert Ahmed Rashid, " between 1994 and 1999, an estimated 80, 000 to 100, 000 Pakistanis trained and fought in Afghanistan " on the side of the Taliban.

Most of Pakistan's public and private banks are headquartered on Karachi's I. I. Chundrigar Road ; according to a 2001 report, nearly 60 % of the cashflow of the Pakistani economy takes place on I. I. Chundrigar Road.

The inaugural first-class match at the National Stadium was played between Pakistan and India on 26 February 1955 and since then Pakistani national cricket team has won 20 of the 41 Test matches played at the National Stadium.

With the backing and support of the Pakistani Armed Force, the Taliban began creating a new military force purely based on Islam's Sharia law.

Currently Pakistani citizens forming militias from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are participating in the ' war on terror '.

Some Pakistani scholars, such as Masood Ashraf Raja, editor of Pakistaniaat, have also provided a more specific form of criticism that relates to the consequences of war on terror on the region.

Over the years, the number of cars on Pakistani roads has tripled.

The most popular cars on Pakistani roads are, Suzuki Mehran, Suzuki Cultus, Suzuki Alto, Suzuki BolanDaihatsu Coure, Hyundai Santro, Honda Civic, Honda City, Honda Accord, Toyota Corolla and Toyota Vitz.

The Pakistan Armed Forces have also taken over the Pakistani government several times since independence mainly on the pretext of lack of good civilian leadership, whom most Pakistanis regard as corrupt and inefficient.

Since the September 11th terrorist attacks, Pakistani military forces have engaged in the War on Terrorism against Taliban and Al Qaeda extremists.

* 1948 – Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah's death.

According to Pakistani Afghanistan expert Ahmed Rashid, " between 1994 and 1999, an estimated 80, 000 to 100, 000 Pakistanis trained and fought in Afghanistan " on the side of the Taliban.

In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil " Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be " bombed back to the stone-age " if it continued to support the Taliban, although Armitage has since denied using the " stone age " phrase.

The first attempt on Massoud's life had been carried out by Hekmatyar and two Pakistani ISI agents in 1975, when Massoud was only 22 years old.

" The Dubai government ordered Tecom to shut down the popular independent Pakistani news channels Geo News and ARY One World on the demand of Pakistan's military regime led by General Pervez Musharraf.

* Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated at an election rally in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007, by a bomb blast.

The galleries display the weapons used by the Mukti Bahini, personal effects of many Mukti Bahini fighters and civilian victims of the atrocities committed by Pakistani forces, many donated by their families after the conflict.

* 2010 – Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees ( US $ 200 million ) in damage.

Among the more famous regiments in the lineages of modern Indian and Pakistani Armies are: The charge of the 21st Lancers at Battle of Omdurman | Omdurman

By the mid-1960s, West Pakistan was benefiting from Ayub's " Decade of Progress ," with its successful " green revolution " in wheat, and from the expansion of markets for West Pakistani textiles, while the East Pakistan's standard of living remained at an abysmally low level.

The switch to synthetic surfaces ended Indian and Pakistani domination because artificial turf was too expensive — in comparison to the wealthier European countries — and since the 1970s Australia, The Netherlands and Germany have dominated at the Olympics.

It is geographically the largest of the four provinces at 347, 190 km² or ( 134, 051 square miles ) of Pakistani territory ; and composes 48 % of the total land area of Pakistan.

* Pakistani railways map at the United Nations

It is an all volunteer military, but conscription can be enacted at the request of the President with the approval of the Pakistani parliament.

Also, another very important topic which somewhat strains ties between Islamabad and Khartoum is the December 2001 transferral of Al-Jazeera photographer Sami al-Hajj at the hands of the Pakistani government to Guantanamo Bay.

While debating, a well known Pakistani nuclear physicist Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy and Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood had an acrimonious public debate in 1988 at the University of Islamabad's Physics Hall.

In 1998, Iran accused Pakistan of sending its air force to bomb Mazar-i-Sharif in support of Taliban forces and directly accused Pakistani troops for " war crimes at Bamiyan ".

The Bush administration therefore decided in August 2008 to abandon the practice of obtaining Pakistani government permission before launching missiles from drones, and in the next six months the CIA carried out at least 38 Predator strikes in northwest Pakistan, compared with 10 in 2006 and 2007 combined.

The attack was conducted from motorcycles, and was deliberately aimed at the paramilitary rangers who have taken over guard duties at the consulate from the Pakistani police.

In 1905 Kitchener founded the Indian Staff College at Quetta ( now the Pakistani Command and Staff College ), where his portrait still hangs.

Boonton had the highest percentage of Pakistani ancestry people at 3. 53 %, of any place in the United States with 1, 000 or more residents.

Massive tank battles occurred in the Punjab, and while the Pakistani forces made some gains, Indian forces captured the key post at Haji Pir, in Kashmir, and brought the Pakistani city of Lahore under artillery and mortar fire.

Pakistani Special Services Wing carrying FN F2000 rifles while on training at Fort Lewis, 23 July 2007.

In the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 the Indian Navy conducted two raids using OSA 1-class missile boats employing the Styx on the Pakistani Naval base at Karachi.

* Pokhran-I ( Smiling Buddha ): On 18 May 1974 India detonated an 8 Kiloton nuclear device at Pokhran Test Range becoming the first nation to become nuclear capable outside the five permanent members of United Nations Security Council as well as dragging Pakistan along with it into a nuclear arms race with the Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto swearing to reciprocate India .< ref > The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Munir Ahmed Khan said that the test would force Pakistan to test its own nuclear bomb.

* During the Soviet-Afghan war, at a variety of training camps in the tribal areas of Pakistan, the Pakistani ISI with the aid of the CIA trained mujahadin in the preparation of car bombs.

Some notable Pakistani think tanks are the Institute of Policy Studies, the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, the Corporate Advisory Council ( NUST ) and Sustainable Development Policy Institute ( SDPI ).

The Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) was a major international bank founded in 1972 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a Pakistani financier.

In October 2006, Moi was found, by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, to have taken a bribe from a Pakistani businessman to award monopoly of duty free shops at the country's international airport in Mombasa and Nairobi.

* Naila Nazir, Pakistani air hostess ( employee of Pakistan International Airlines ) who received 1985's Flight Safety Foundation ( FSF ) Heroism Award for her brave handling of tense and dangerous situation during 13 days of flight PK-326 hijacking ordeal.

In 2009, the International Security Assistance Force ( ISAF ) and American CIA have begun using unmanned aerial vehicles from the Afghan side to hit terrorist targets on the Pakistani side of the Durand Line.

* 25 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani author, Spiritual Leader and founder of International Spiritual Movement Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam.

* A Pakistani delegation sent to Kabul, Afghanistan to convince the Taliban movement to hand over Osama bin Laden also visited the eight detained Shelter Now International workers on trial for spreading Christianity.

Previously known as the Islamabad International Airport, it was renamed after the late Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto by the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yusuf Raza Gillani on 21 June 2008 .< ref >

In 1972, Agha Hasan Abedi, a Pakistani banker who had set up a new bank called Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ), approached Zayed for investment.

* Imran Nazir, is a Pakistani International cricketer.

* Iran admits it possesses a design for a far more advanced high-speed centrifuge to enrich uranium than it previously revealed to the International Atomic Energy Agency after being confronted with evidence obtained from the secret network of nuclear suppliers surrounding Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan.

He has scored over 9, 000 One Day International runs at an average above 40 ( 2nd highest batting average among Pakistani batsmen after Zaheer Abbas ) and over 7, 000 Test runs at an average above 50 ( highest batting average amongst all Pakistani batsmen ) with 24 Test centuries.

Initial reports indicated that his death was an apparent suicide, however reports in the Pakistani newspapers Dawn and The News International indicated that Ryan's death may be investigated as a murder.

According to Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Non-proliferation Program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, citing a Pakistani news article, Pakistan is developing its own equivalent to the Davy Crockett launcher with miniaturized warhead that may be similar to the W54.

* The Woodrow Wilson Center's Nuclear Proliferation International History Project The Wilson Center's Nuclear Proliferation International History Project contains a collection of primary source documents on Pakistani nuclear development.

Rashid Latif (; born 14 October 1968 ) is a former Pakistani wicket keeper and a right handed batsman who represented the Pakistani cricket team in Test cricket and One Day International matches, between 1992 and 2003.

Imran Nazir ( Punjabi: ) ( born 16 December 1981 ) is a Pakistani batsman in cricket who represents the Pakistan national cricket team in Test cricket, One Day International and Twenty20 cricket.

However, on 2 February 2009, a Pakistani court suspended the ban on Indian Cricket League players, which paved the way for Nazir to make a return to the One Day International and Twenty20 squad during their tour of Sri Lanka in August 2009.

* Shahid Afridi, Pakistani cricketer and former national captain, and the world record-holder for the fastest century in One Day International cricket.

The Canadian-Muslim Civil Liberties Association similarly gathered a petition of 800 signatures and presented it to both Canadian and Pakistani officiails, and Human Concern International executive director Kaleem Akhtar echoed his certainty that Khadr was not involved in the blast, stating that " politics was not his cup of tea ", and subsequently started a legal defence fund for Khadr.

Chaudhry Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, KCSI ( February 6, 1893-September 1, 1985 ) was a Pakistani politician, diplomat, international jurist, and scholar of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, known for drafting the Pakistan Resolution, first foreign minister of Pakistan, for his representation of Pakistan at the United Nations, and serving as a judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.