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Truck aprons are between the road portion of the roundabout and the inner circle of the roundabout. [2] On slip lanes, the truck apron is located between the road surface (bitumen) and the sidewalk. Both in roundabouts and slip lanes the truck apron is raised slightly, in an attempt to keep light vehicles on the main road surface.
Akhtar Husain (1912-1992, [1] Urdu: اختر حسین) also known as Dr Akhtar Husain Raipuri [2] was a Pakistani scholar, journalist and lexicographer. [1] He is also the author of the book The Dust of the Road: A Translation of Gard-e-Raah that was translated into English by Amina Azfar many years after his death.
The airport is connected to Islamabad via the Srinagar Highway and Rawalpindi via the GT Road (Highway N-5). A four-lane highway was constructed to serve cargo traffic . [ 47 ] The Srinagar Highway is also connected to M-1 Motorway , providing another connection to the airport from Peshawar, Chiamkiani, Nowshera, Risalpur, Jehangira ...
Road signs in Pakistan are modelled on the British road sign system, with an exceptional difference being that they are bilingual and contain messages in Urdu, the national language, and English, and in some cases, the local regional or provincial languages. Pakistan drives on the left side of the road and follows the left-hand traffic system ...
from Hindi पश्मीना, Urdu پشمينه, ultimately from Persian پشمينه. Punch from Hindi and Urdu panch پانچ, meaning "five". The drink was originally made with five ingredients: alcohol, sugar, lemon, water, and tea or spices. [15] [16] The original drink was named paantsch. Pundit
Urdu and Hindi on a road sign in India. The Urdu version is a direct transliteration of the English; the Hindi is a part transliteration ("parcel" and "rail") and part translation: "karyalay" and "arakshan kendra" Standard Urdu is often compared with Standard Hindi. [181]
M-2 motorway in the Salt Range M-2 motorway exit to Sargodha. Pakistan's motorways are an important part of Pakistan's "National Trade Corridor Project", which aims to link Pakistan's three Arabian Sea ports (Karachi Port, Port Bin Qasim and Gwadar Port) to the rest of the country through its national highways and motorways network and further north with Afghanistan, Central Asia and China. [2]
The airport had a specifically built runway and apron to handle aircraft up to the Boeing 747. This enabled Lahore to become accessible by international flights. [3] PIA initiated direct flights to both Dubai, and London via Karachi. [2]