Islamabad

The capital city of Pakistan, Islamabad is found within the northwest of the country on Potohar Plateau. This area has been significant in history for being a neighborhood of the crossroads of the Rawalpindi and therefore the Northwest Frontier Province. The town was inbuilt 1960 to exchange Karachi because of the Pakistani capital, which it's been since 1963. Thanks to Islamabad's proximity to Rawalpindi, they're considered sister cities.

Faisal Mosque

Compared to other cities of the country, Islamabad may be a clean, spacious, and quiet city with many greeneries. The location of the town features a history going back to the earliest human habitations in Asia. This area has seen the primary clearance of Aryans from Central Asia, ancient caravans transitory from Central Asia, and therefore the massive armies of Tamerlane and Alexander.

Parliament House

Prime Minister House

Supreme Court

Monument

After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, it had been touched that a replacement and permanent Capital City had to be built to replicate the range of the Pakistani nation. It had been considered pertinent to locate the new capital where it might be isolated from the business and business activity of the Karachi, and yet is definitely accessible from the remotest corner of the country.

A command was accordingly set in motion in 1958, trusted with the task of choosing a suitable site for the new capital with a specific importance on location, climate, logistics and protection requirements, aesthetics, and beautiful and natural beauty.

The planned capital area of 350 square miles (906 square km) is an expanse of natural terraces and meadows surrounding the town. An extra 1,049 square miles (2,717 square km) of hinterland, referred to as the required Areas and subject to planning control, is roughly a trapezoid, with the Margala Hills, 3,000 to 5,000 feet (900 to 1,500 metres) high, within the north and northeast. The southern portion is an undulating plain. It’s exhausted by the Kurang River, on which the Rawal Dam forms a lake holding about 50,000 acre-feet (61,650,000 cubic meters) of water. Pop. (1998) city, 524,500; capital area, 799,000.

Centaurus Mall

To the north of the town, you'll find the Margalla Hills. Hot summers, monsoon rains, and cold winters with sparse snowfall within the hills almost summarize the climate of this area. Islamabad also features rich wildlife starting from wild boars to leopards.