Old Pakistan, Through Precious Pictures

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Old Pakistan, Through Precious Pictures - Everybody has seen the current Pakistan Hamariweb is showing some old pictures which are very special moments of Pakistan. These pictures are our national property which reminds us the past of Pakistan.
 

European tourists enjoy a buggy ride outside Peshawar’s Hotel Intercontinental (1975).
 
Legendary boxer, Muhammad Ali, arrives at Kinnaird college in Lahore during his 1988 visit to Pakistan.
 

Former Pakistan military dictator, General Yayah Khan having dinner with famous Pakistani singer, Noor Jehan in 1969. Yayah was having an affair with the popular vocalist and former actress.
 

1980s: Sultan Rahi ("Maula Jutt") and Muhammad Ali.
 
Canadian travellers in Multan, 1982. They were touring the world on their car.
 
Future US President, Barak Obama with a Pakistani friend in Karachi in 1982.
 
Karachi Airport in 1943. It was one of the largest in the region.
 
People waving Pakistani and American flags from the balconies of their apartments at Karachi’s Burns Road as US President Dwight Eisenhower’s motorcade passes by during his visit to Pakistan in 1959..
 
Back in 1962: PIA crew posing at J.F Kennedy International Airport, USA
 

RARE: Moin Akhtar, Behroz Sabazwari, Lehri & Omer Sharif together!
 

Shahnaz Sheikh and Javed Shiekh in the hugely popular PTV rom-com, Ankahi (1982).
 

Desperado, 1981: This is a rare photograph of notorious Pakistani left-wing radical, Salamulla Tipu, hanging out from the cockpit of a PIA plane that he had hijacked with three other colleagues in 1981.
 

Tariq Aziz in the very first Neelam Ghar
 

Urdu news being delivered from Pakistan Television’s Karachi Studios (1974)
 

1980s: PTV Classic Drama Serial "Dhoop Kinarey"
 
1980s: Cast of Comedy Show "Fifty Fifty"

(L - R) Zeba Shehnaz, Sakhi Kamal, Ashraf Khan, Hasnat Ahmed, Adil Wadia, Ismail Tara, Majid Jehnagir and Composer Arshad Mehmood.
 
A Pakistani minister meeting a visiting American football team before a match in Karachi (1968). The team played three matches against the Pakistan team, winning two and losing one.
 
President Ayub Khan witnessing a location reserved for a new capital known as 'Islamabad.
 
The openers of Pakistan Cricket Team. BUTT sports was famous for its sporting equipment
 
In 1967, a group of Pakistani high school kids designed the above-seen car all on their own. Dubbed as ‘The first car made in Pakistan,’ the car soon vanished from the country’s memory but the students all ended up getting scholarships to prestigious American engineering universities.
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