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Dolmen Malls are a chain of shopping malls in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan.Owned and operated by Dolmen Group. [1] Dolmen Group was established in 1984 as a real estate investor. [2]
The university is the first multi-campus university in Pakistan, having five modern campuses based in different cities. [3] These campuses are located in Chiniot-Faisalabad, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, and Peshawar, providing a standard educational environment and recreational facilities to 11,000 students, out of which 500 are faculty members and a quarter is covered by female students.
The UAE is the second largest source of remittances to Pakistan; in 2012, remittances from the UAE amounted to $2.9 billion. [14] See Migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates. The UAE is widely reported to be complicit in a modern-day slave trade of from Pakistan workers.
The city is Pakistan's largest software and hardware producing centre, [183] and hosts a growing computer-assembly industry. [183] The city has always been a centre for publications; 80% of Pakistan's books are published in Lahore, and it remains the foremost centre of literary, educational, and cultural activity in Pakistan. [30]
Islamabad officially became the capital of Pakistan on 14 August 1967, exactly 20 years after the country's independence. [1] The first capital of Pakistan was the coastal city of Karachi in Sindh, which was selected by Muhammad Ali Jinnah. [1] Karachi was and still is the largest city and economic capital of Pakistan.
Pakistan Arab Cultural Association Library, Iftikhar Chambers, Altaf Road, P.O. Box 5752, Karachi, Sindh; Pakistan National Centre Library; Rangoon Wala Hall and Community Centre Library, Dhoraji Colony; Sardar Abdul-Rab Nishtar Library, near Lyari General Hospital, Lyari Town; Satellite Library, Sango Lane, Lyari Town
After independence in 1947, Karachi became the capital of the newly independent state of Pakistan and Mayor Hakim Ehsan received the Governor-General, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, at Karachi International Airport. 1948 saw the city boundaries fixed within the new Federal Capital Territory, which covered 2,103 km 2 but also included several small towns and villages separate from Karachi.
Karachi was an important military base during the First World War (1914–18) because it was the first British Raj port of call for ships coming through the Suez Canal and was the gateway to Afghanistan and the Russian Empire. Karachi was again a military base and port for supplies to the Russian front during the Second World War (1939–1945 ...