Islamabad is the new capital of Pakistan, the first being Karachi after the emergence of Pakistan in 1947.Islamabad is a real beautiful city and because of it's beauty a lot of people from every part of Pakistan come to visit the city and also the foreigners.
In contrast to some of the major and historic cities of Pakistan like Lahore, Karachi, Faisalabad and Multan Islamabad is not a historic city and it is a newly made modern city. One finds newly made modern buildings while visiting the capital. Islamabad is a modern, spacious and a carefully planned city. A city of wide, tree lined streets, large bungalows and well-organized markets, which is rare scene in Pakistan. Since it is a new city that is why it has not got a lot of depth in its culture. What ever it has got in its culture is been attracted by the city from the neighbouring cities like Lahore and Rawalpindi.
Technically Islamabad is not a part of Punjab, but forms it`s own capital authority though it is attached to Rawalpindi which is the second most important city of the province after Lahore. The decision to make Islamabad the capital was made by the then President of Pakistan Ayub khan in early 1960s
Islamabad is the best-planned city of Pakistan. The city is divided into. sectors and with in each sector the streets are numbered and thus it makes it easy getting around in Islamabad There are big markets in each sector and one does not find it difficult to shop.
Islamabad is a very beautiful city, it is been made against the Margallah Hills which are the part of Himalayan range of mountains. These beautiful lush green hills are visible from every part of the capital as it is designed so. These hills give a new charm to the beauty of this city.
One finds a lot of sights while visiting the city and daman-e-koh is one of them. Daman-e-koh provides the best bird`s eye view of the city and every point of the Islamabad city is visible from it. Shah Faisal mosque is the biggest mosque of the world. It is superbly sighted at the foot of the margalla hills. It is superbly sighted at the foot of the margalla hills. It is a big mosque with four sky scrapping minarets, it is financed largely by the donations by Saudi Arabia that is why it is named after the king Faisal of Saudi Arabia.
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