This slide was prepared for 14th August 2007 Function held at INTI International University College in Malaysia to celebrate 60th Independence day of PAKISTAN.

1. INTI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE (Nilai , MALAYSIA) Celebrating 60 th Independence day of PAKISTAN 14 th august 2007 Organized By: Pakistan Liaison Committee, INTI UC Malaysia Presented By : Syed Hasan Ali Hashmi, Wasim Akram Awan & Usman Azeem Tiwana

4. Islamic Republic of Pakistan

5. GEOGRAPHY NATIONAL SYMBOLS & BRIEF FACTS

6. MAP OF ASIA

7. BALOCHISTAN PUNJAB NWFP SINDH Karachi Quetta Lahore Islamabad Peshawar JAMMU & KASHMIR I N D I A C H I N A A F G H A N I S T A N I R A N A R A B I A N S E A ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN Official Name : Date of Inception: August 14th, 1947 Head of the state: President Capita l: Islamabad Area: Total 796,095 sq.km Population (Yr 2007): 156.7 Million (estimated) Religion: ISLAM( 95% Muslim) Language: Urdu

10. The name "Pakistan" means "Land of the Pure" in Urdu, Sindhi, and Persian. It was coined in 1934 as "Pakstan" by Choudhary Rahmat Ali, who published it in the pamphlet ‘ Now or Never’ .[5] The name represented, according to Ali, the "thirty million Muslims of PAKSTAN, who live in the five Northern Units of (British) India — Punjab, N.W.F.P. (Afghania), Kashmir, Sindh, and Baluchistan."[6] The nation was founded officially as the Dominion of Pakistan in 1947, and was renamed the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in 1956.

13. NATIONAL MOSQUE: FAISAL MASJID ( Situated in ISLAMABAD) The Largest Mosque in the world, in terms of area. Brain Child of King Faisal bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia & is named after him.

14. Father of the Nation : Quaid-e-Azam MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH (1876-1948) Mausoleum is situated in the Heart of Karachi City.

15. Mausoleum is situated in the famous Lahore City Sir Dr. ALLAMA MUHAMMAD IQBAL (1877-1938) –National Poet

16. NATIONAL FLOWER: JASMINE

17. DEODAR NATIONAL TREE

18. NATIONAL BIRD OF PAKISTAN: CHUKAR (Partridge)

19. Minar-e-Pakistan ( Minaret of Pakistan) Built at the site where Pakistan Resolution was passed on 23 March 1940 . 23 rd March is celebrated as the ‘Pakistan Day ’. Monument symbolizes the great struggle & sacrifies, by which PAKISTAN was created on 14 August 1947

20. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY-in Islamabad

21. Newly Constructed National Monument in Islamabad

23. Famous ‘Badshahi Masjid’ in Lahore was built in 1673 by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb

26. The Lahore Fort , locally referred to as Shahi Qila

28. : NATIONAL HOLIDAYS OF PAKISTAN Date Name Remarks March 23 Pakistan Day Commemorates Pakistan Resolution on March 23, 1940 in Lahore May 1 Labor Day (May Day) Labor day in Pakistan August 14 Independence Day Commemorates Pakistan's independence from the United Kingdom on August 14th, 1947 September 6 Defense Day Defense Day September 11 Death anniversary of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah Death anniversary of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah November 9 Birthday of Muhammad Iqbal Birthday of national poet Muhammad Iqbal December 25 Birthday of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah; Christmas Birthday of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah; Christmas