Tasaweer-i-Pakistan-i-old by Nadeem F. Paracha

[Marwat Khan Lodhi]

Wife of US President, J F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy (right), enjoying a camel ride in Karachi during her visit to the city in 1961.

A 1971 photo of a young (Bengali) Pakistan army officer who switched sides and joined the East Pakistan rebels against the Pakistan Army. The Pakistan army was defeated by the Bengali nationalists and the Indian armed forces in December 1971. In 1972, East Pakistan became Bangladesh.

A Pakistani family waiting for transport after attending a function at Karachi’s Beach Luxury Hotel in 1973.

Prime Minister, Z A. Bhutto, relaxing with his daughters, Sanam (left) and Benazir (back), at their residence in Clifton, Karachi (1973).

A western tourist dressed like a local poses with a group of Pushtun children (and a man) outside a shop in the Bara area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (1975).

Imran Khan signing an autograph for a young fan in Lahore just before the start of the Pakistan-India series of 1978.

Rana Liaquat, wife of Pakistan’s first Prime Minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, with famous American animator, film-maker and entrepreneur, Walt Disney, in 1951.

 

[Marwat Khan Lodhi]

A 1963 ad for the Tudor cigarette brand. Tudor was launched by the Pakistan Tobacco Company specifically to target the market of women smokers in Pakistan.

Current Pakistani Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, poses with his car as a young man in late 1960s.

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.

One of the first Pakistani pop stars, Alamgir, in Karachi (1973).

Students outside the Arts Lobby at the Karachi University in 1974.

An all-girl Iranian pop band that toured Pakistan, with famous Iranian singer Madam Gagosh in 1974.

Western tourists wait at a bus stand in Sibi, Balochistan (1975).

LP cover of Nazia and Zoheb Hassan’s first album, ‘Disco Dewane’ (1980).

One of the first batches of the ‘Afghan Mujahideen’ arrives in the tribal areas of Pakistan, 1980.

 

[DRaisinHerald]

Nothing good ever comes out of this Paracha dude. What's the purpose of posting these political photos?
Besides, why would an Afghan refugee like you care as to what was going on in Pakistan around the 60s-70s-80s?

 

[Marwat Khan Lodhi]

Future US President, Barak Obama with a Pakistani friend in Karachi in 1982.

Famous American film actor and star, Robert Di Nero (left) during a pleasure trip in Chitral, north Pakistan.

Popular revolutionary poet, Habib Jalib, being manhandled by the police during an anti-Zia rally in Lahore in 1981.

The Pakistan Cricket team celebrate the winning of its first major trophy, Sharjah, 1986. (from Left): Abdul Qadir, Mohsin Kamal, Javed Miandad, Mansoor Ilahi, Imran Khan, Wasim Akram and Mansoor Akhtar.

Future Pakistani Test captain, Misbah-ul-Haq with trophy at school, 1987.

Legendary boxer, Muhammad Ali, arrives at a college in Lahore during his 1988 visit to Pakistan.

A 1989 magazine centrefold of Pakistan’s deadly pace attack of the late 1980s: Wasim Akram, Imran Khan, Waqar Younis and Aqib Javed.

MQM Chief, Altaf Hussain, at MQM member, Farooq Sattar’s wedding in Karachi.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

@Aeronaut check this dbags avatar ,,

 

[Marwat Khan Lodhi]

Broadcaster, Mustafa Ali, announcing the creation of Pakistan on the radio at 12 am, August 14, 1947.

Fatima Jinnah, sister of the founder of Pakistan, Muhamad Ali Jinnah, playing with her dog at her residence in Karachi in 1959.

Pilots and cabin crew of a PIA flight meet Chinese revolutionary leader and Premier, Zhou Enla (early 1960s).

Natives of a Sindhi village drench a European tourist with cold water from a well to beat the summer heat (1973).

Famous Pakistani painter, Jamil Naqsh, with a model in Karachi in 1974.

A PTV host interviewing world wrestling champion, Anokhi (from Japan) who arrived in Karachi in the late 1970s to compete with Pakistan’s famous wrestlers, the Bholu Brothers.

The premier of ‘Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom’ at Karachi’s Nishat Cinema, 1984. In 2012, the cinema was burned down by religious fanatics.

Pakistani pop band, The Strings in 1989. They were part of the first wave of new Pakistani pop bands that dominated the charts in the 1990s.

 

[Marwat Khan Lodhi]

A 1961 poster published by the Tourism Board of Pakistan to attract western tourists to visit the capital city of the rugged Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Peshawar.

Although the poster showed Pashtun tribesmen with rifles, they were not allowed to carry them in the city.

However, Pashtun men with colourfully painted fake guns (as shown in the poster) were hired by the government for the tourists’ amusement.

In the 1980s the guns became quite real during the US and Pakistan backed anti-Soviet ‘Afghan jihad’, and by the 1990s the tourists had all but disappeared.

The Queen of England, Elizabeth, riding with Pakistani head of state, Field Marshal Ayub Khan, in an open-top car through the streets of the Saddar in Karachi during her visit in 1961.

Both sides of the road were packed and lined by college and school students and thousands of onlookers.

Till the early 1960s Saddar was one of cleanest areas in Karachi. Between the late 1960s and early 1970s it was lined with bars, nightclubs and famous shopping spots and became the place to be for middle-class Karachiites looking for entertainment and shopping.

Today, however, Saddar has become one of the city’s most overcrowded and ragged areas; a sad shadow of its glorious past.

Karachi’s Christian community was also largely concentrated here, and Saddar still has some of the most magnificent churches in Karachi.

A 1962 photo showing Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of American President John F. Kennedy, disembarking from a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane at London’s Heathrow Airport and being greeted by the plane’s flying and cabin crew.

Ms. Kennedy went on record saying that PIA was one her favourite airlines.

 

[Kompromat]

@DESERT FIGHTER | What avatar?

 

[DRaisinHerald]

@DESERT FIGHTER | What avatar?

He changed it now..

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

@DESERT FIGHTER | What avatar?

Ask @DRaisinHerald & @Azlan Haider

His avatar was insulting Quaid e Azam...

 

[Marwat Khan Lodhi]

A telling image from Pakistan’s first horror and ‘X-Rated’ film, Zinda Lash (The Living Corpse) - a modern (and voluptuous) retelling of the story of vampires and Dracula in a Pakistani setting.

Released in 1967 the film became an instant box-office hit and was then repeatedly shown on the state-owned Pakistan Television (PTV) during its late Saturday night film slot.

It was released on DVD in 2002.

British journalist, Tom Waghorn, seen here typing a report while sitting on the slopes of Torkhum near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in 1968.

Today this area is only ventured by violent Islamist militants and the Pakistan military. Even the local Pakistani Pashtuns fear to tread here, let alone Westerners.

A montage of headlines screaming about the expulsion of the Pakistani Ahmadis from the fold of Islam.

Also seen is the copy of the constitutional deliberations and clauses finalised by the country’s National Assembly in 1974 that turned the Ahmadis into a minority faith separate from Islam in Pakistan.

The move was initiated by anti-Ahmadi agitation by Islamic parties who then pressurised the Z A. Bhutto regime to declare Ahmadis as non-Muslim.

A group of fighter pilots of the Pakistan Air Force posing just hours before the start of the 1965 Pakistan-India war.
Some of these men never came back, while others were later send to Libya, Jordan and Saudi Arabia (in the 1970s) to train the air force of these countries.

The 1965 war however ended in an awkward stalemate.

Ask @DRaisinHerald & @Azlan Haider

His avatar was insulting Quaid e Azam... Ban this low life insect.

Trolling, post reported

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Trolling, post reported

doesnt change the fact that you are a low life... who insults the Father of the Nation... you pathetic ... afghani pole vaulter... go back to your hole in a.... and cry about Pakistan as much as you want.. we dont want your pathetic kind in this country.. you blot.

 

[Marwat Khan Lodhi]

great Marxist revolutionary and legend, Che Ernesto Guevara, standing along side Pakistan’s first military dictator, Ayub Khan.

doesnt change the fact that you are a low life... who insults the Father of the Nation... you pathetic ... afghani ...

This is your last warning, stop trolling on my thread or i would take the matter to GHQ

Just before the fall: This is the front page of Dawn that appeared only days before Pakistani troops surrendered meekly to the Indian army in former East Pakistan (December, 1971).

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.

Notice the almost barren area in front of the hotel – a far cry from the wide roads, traffic signals and lines of trees and traffic that surrounds the area today.

Damned greatness: A 1976 photo of Pakistan’s Nobel Prize winning scientist, Dr. Abdus Salam (right), with a colleague at a summer college held at Pakistan’s scenic Nathiyagali resort.

Hippie invasion: Cover of the soundtrack album (LP) of 1974 box-office hit, Miss Hippie. The film depicted the ‘effect hippie lifestyle and fashion were having on Pakistani youth.’ (sic)

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

great Marxist revolutionary and legend, Che Ernesto Guevara, standing along side Pakistan’s first military dictator, Ayub Khan.


This is your last warning, stop trolling on my thread or i would take the matter to GHQ

Sure dont forget to tag @DRaisinHerald and @Azlan Haider who witnesses you change your avatar before i mentioned a mod in this thread.. you are so pathetic .... i feel pitty on third class ... like you @Aeronaut @WebMaster @Oscar @nuclearpak @Emmie ...

This troll was using an insulting pic of Quaid e Azam ... drawing nonsense on his pic... and when i mentioned him .. he like a pathetic coward changed it... 2 members saw him doing that... also we all know what a hate filled bigot this creature is.. filled with venom against the armed forces,the govt n the people .. be it his anti army rants.. or racist nonsense.. we have seen it all...

 

[Kompromat]

This Afghan mofo was using a distorted pic of Jinnah in his avatar ... this low life b@stard needs to be banned permanently

He's not an Afghan and since he has changed the avatar, it means that he realizes his mistake.

@DESERT FIGHTER | Noted.