Pakistan before 90s

[Mercenary]

Sad to see how far back Pakistan has regressed.

 

[Hiptullha]

Amazing, Where did that Pakistan disappear?

Pakistan didn't disappear. The white people and the 1% just left.

 

[dexter]

A 1963 brochure printed by the government of Pakistan. The influx of western tourists arriving in the country had risen by the time this brochure was published. It contained maps and names of famous tourist spots, beaches, mountain resorts, hotels, nightclubs and bars in the country (both in West and former East Pakistan).

An American Christian evangelist addressing Pakistani Christians and converts in a village near Abbotabad in 1977. -Picture courtesy Williamson

A European tourist family outside a rest house in Murree, 1974.

A special stamp released by the government of Pakistan to mark the centenary of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Karachi (1978).

A 1974 photograph showing the inside of a ‘hashish house’ in Quetta.

The December 1971 cover of Time magazine. The main story detailed the breaking away of former East Pakistan (after a bloody civil war with the West Pakistan army) . The picture is that of a Bengali militant celebrating the defeat of the West Pakistan military.

A college student poses in front of a street in Quetta in 1972.

Today, Quetta is plagued by brutal violence involving Sunni sectarian outfits, Baloch nationalist groups and the Pakistan military.

Tourists enjoy a buggy ride outside Peshawar’s Hotel Intercontinental (1975).

This poster attacking the ‘imperialist grip of the American CIA’ over various ‘third world countries’ (including Pakistan) began appearing on the walls of colleges and universities of Karachi and Lahore in 1968. The poster was originally designed in South America but was reproduced in Pakistan by radical leftist student groups during their movement against the Ayub Khan dictatorship (1968-69). –Poster courtesy Rashid Chaudhry.

VHS cover of Pakistan’s first horror and ‘X-rated’ film, Zinda Laash (The Living Dead). Released in 1967, the film was a huge hit in an era when the Pakistan’s film industry was dishing out an average of 50 films a year, most of them romantic fantasies.

 

[Spade]

Humari Or Indians ki

Don't blame your mismanagement on Indians, please..

 

[rockstar08]

the day we detonate the N bombs., we sign our death warrant as a country

 

[halupridol]

nice pics @dexter

 

[dexter]

A 1955 bottle of Pakola. Every Pakistani knows about Pakola Ice-Cream Soda. The bright green coloured soft-drink that is also hailed (unofficially, though) to be ‘Pakistan’s national soft-drink.’

But for the first few years Pakola struggled to find a market for itself that was packed with popular soft-drinks such as Coca-Cola, 7Up and Bubble-Up.
Then in 1955 it even had to print the words ‘Non-Alcoholic’ on its bottles because thanks to its striking colour, some stores (in Karachi) actually began storing it alongside their stock of alcoholic beverages!

By the 1970s however, Pakola finally established itself as a popular soft-drink

Marriot, 1977: This is a 1977 photograph showing Islamabad’s Marriot Hotel (then called Holiday Inn) being constructed. Almost three decades later this famous hotel was blown up by suicide bombers and/or psychotics who were in a hurry to reach the rooms their handlers had booked for them in paradise.

A vibrant 1973 poster prepared and printed by the Pakistan Ministry of Tourism to attract tourism to the city of Lahore.

A copy of famous spy novelist, Edward S. Arron’s 1962 book ‘Assignment Karachi.’

The book was one of the many he wrote that involved the adventures of CIA agent Sam Durell in various cities across the world.

This novel, which narrated the tale of Durell working with Pakistani authorities to capture Soviet-backed henchmen, became an instant best-seller in Pakistan.

However, in a quirky twist, some copies of this novel were set on fire by pro-Soviet leftist students during a demonstration (at the Karachi University) against Ayub Khan’s education policy in 1962.

A 1967 tourism poster for Karachi (printed by American airline Pan Am and used in Europe and the US).

A special stamp released by government of Pakistan in 1973, to plead the return of the 90,000 Pakistani prisoners of war captured by the Indian forces during the 1971 war.

Pakistan lost its eastern wing (East Pakistan) in the war. The break gave birth to Bangladesh.

A 1970 copy of a paperback version of the conspiratorial (and fictitious) book, ‘Protocols of Zion,’ printed in Pakistan in 1969.

The Protocols, a book describing a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world, first appeared in Russia in 1903. It was written by an obscure Russian anti-Semite author (most probably as a novel), but was given a whole new angle and widespread publicity by anti-Semite American industrial tycoons like Henry Ford and then by the Nazi regime in Germany

Two hippie tourists at a tea shop in Sibi, Balochistan, in 1972. .

Today, traveling to a Baloch town like the one in the picture has become a no-go area even for Pakistanis! (Photo courtesy Rory McLane)

Karachi’s ‘Three Swords’ area in 1974. It was ‘beautified’ during the Bhutto regime but today has become a busy and congested artery connecting Clifton with the centre of the city. It was during the Bhutto government that the city’s first three-lane roads were constructed (Shara-e-Faisal), dotted with trees; the Clifton area was further beautified; foundation of the country’s first steel mill laid (in Karachi); and the construction of a large casino started (near the shores of the Clifton Beach) to accommodate the ever-growing traffic of European, American and Arab tourists

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

 

[qamar1990]

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Young American and European tourists with locals at a restaurant in Ziarat, Balochistan, in 1973.
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A 1989 magazine centrefold of Pakistan’s deadly pace attack of the late 1980s: Wasim Akram, Imran Khan, Waqar Younis and Aqib Javed.

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Tourism peaked in Pakistan in 1974-75. Over a million tourists passed through or landed in Pakistan between these two years. The government declared tourism to be an industry. To mark the occasion, the Ministry of Tourism issued a special stamp to celebrate Pakistan becoming a popular tourist spot in the South Asian region.

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Western tourists near the Attock Bridge in Punjab in 1982.

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Karachi’s Frere Hall and Garden with Queen Victoria’s statue in 1942.

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Future Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif during his youth.

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1980s: Sultan Rahi ("Maula Jutt") and Muhammad Ali.

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1962: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip with Miangul Abdul Haq Jahanzeb (Wali-e-Swat). Qudratullah Shahab in the background - #Swat #Pakistan

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PIA Vickers Viscount plane: Served for almost 2 decades and finally grounded in 2005 Multan crash incident

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Young Inzimam,waqar younus.
The Boy is now a renowned singer

who is the boy with inzi and waqar

 

[dexter]

Guard at US Embassy entrance Karachi in 50s

American Consulate #Lahore in 1964

Pakistani team autographs ..... 1976-77 in Australia

Multan in 70s

(Back Row, from left to right) David Houghton of Zimbabwe, Keppler Wessels of South Africa, Mohammed Azharuddin of India, Richie Richardson of the West Indies and Aravinda De Silva of Sri Lanka, (Front Row, from left to right) Martin Crowe of New Zealand, Allan Border of Australia, Graham Gooch of England and Imran Khan of Pakistan during the World Cup Opening Ceremony held on February 22, 1992 in Sydney, Australia.

NATIONAL BANK #Karachi in late 70s

Legends of PTV QAVI KHAN AND ISMAIL TARA

Near islamia college karachi

16 years old Afridi with my cousin - Sydney, Australia - 1996

Evergreen Chacha Jee Mustansar Hussain Tarar - LEGEND at Lake Como on the border of Italy/Switzerland in 50s

 

[Pakistani shaheens]

the day we detonate the N bombs., we sign our death warrant as a country

Our country started to get weaken when corrupt politicians came to power,

 

[dexter]

Elegance : Quaid-e-Azam Love you sir
Enough for today

 

[rockstar08]

Our country started to get weaken when our corrupt politicians came to power,

corrupt countries are so many ... but not everyone is facing the challenging of WOT .
this all start when we go against the world and make N-weapons , and 2 years later , we see Americans sitting next to us
not everything is co-incidence

 

[Yeti]

Stunning pics! but then came Zia and the sickening wahabi primitive ideology which is now what the world see in Pakistan not to mention the 1000 yearr war Bhutto promised to wage on India for Kashmir has given rise to thousands of jihads some of which have turned against the state. The damage has been done and it is too late now for Pakistan to change it's course as the jihads mullah brigade has more power than IK, NS or any other political leader.

 

[FaujHistorian]

Amazing, Where did that Pakistan disappear?

it has not.

We are too busy with dharna marna to look at it.

 

[Mercenary]

Things went downhill in Pakistan when Zia ul Haq came to power in Pakistan.

He is the worst thing to ever happen to Pakistan by making Extremist Islamic parties main stream.