Pakistan in Pictures

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Nanga Parbat and Fairy Meadows, Gilgit-Baltistan

 

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Saifulmalook Lake

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Pic By: Farooq Umer Seeru Bhai

 

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Sino-Pakistani Border Crossing (Khunjerab Pass), elevation 4,693 metres or 15,397 feet is a high mountain pass in the Karakoram Mountains on the northern border of Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region on the southwest border of the Xinjiang region of China. Khunjerab Pass is the highest paved international border crossing in the world and the highest point of the Karakoram Highway. The roadway across the pass was completed in 1982, and has superseded the unpaved Mintaka and Kilik pass as the primary passage across the Karakoram range. On Pakistan side, the pass is 42 km (26 mi) from the National Park station and checkpoint in Dih, 75 km (47 mi) from the customs and immigration post in Sost, 270 km (170 mi) from Gilgit and 870 km (540 mi) from Islamabad.



KHUNJERAB PASS

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If only wilderness to such a vast extent could be declared as beauty beyond imagination. The pass is nothing but barren piece of land, snow covered ground, surrounded by snow capped mountains, a barbed wire marking the border between the two countries, a monument and a wall signifying the right side as beingChina, while the land on the left hand is Pakistan.
The landscape on both sides is astonishingly different. One side is a vertical world of mountain peaks and gorges, with no existence of human life for as far as 30 km, except for a few truck movements, mainly transporting goods to build on the KKH or the Border side. Whereas, the land across the barbed wire is wide and open grasslands, a high-level plateau where grazing herds of Yaks, goats and sheep can be found.

Touch down at the Khunjerab was like – finishing first in one of the relay races back in school. Sheer joy, with stuttering teeth and frozen hands, I must have managed to click a few 50 pictures, mesmerized by the serene, picturesque, calm and soul free spot that I was standing on. I even managed to make friends with the security guard, acting as the stone cold temple guard.
Did you know that the entire China Pakistan border is marked and based on a simple barbed wire? And did you also know, If I crossed the monument marking, betweenPakistan and China, the security guard would have lost his job, as the alarm bells would go on? Aaah such a waste of mischievous energy… I hope you enjoyed through this post and would enjoy more pictures of the Khunjerab Pass, as much as I did.


Last Village by Pakistan At Karakoram Highway,
Sost, Pakistan

 

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Hunza....

 

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The Mighty KKH

Due to heavy Snowfall & rush of tourists in Murree local monkeys booked a Suzuki Pickup to Rest at a better Station.

 

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Attabad Lake from a plane enroute to China.

 

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KKH

 

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LAHORE.

 

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True city of lights

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Rawalpindi-Islamabad Metro