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The following is a list of notable Pakistani Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Pakistani American or must have references showing they are Pakistani American and are notable.
The architecture of the embassy building is partly modeled on the Naulakha Pavilion. From 1951 to 2011, the embassy was located on Embassy Row, in the former Francis B. Moran House (architect George Oakley Totten Jr., 1909) on 2315 Massachusetts Avenue NW.
Pakistani architecture is intertwined with the architecture of the broader Indian subcontinent.The major architectural styles popular in the past were Temple, Indo-Islamic, Mughal and Indo-Saracenic architecture, all of which have many regional varieties.
Private residences and embassies located on Massachusetts Avenue between 22nd Street and Sheridan Circle The Indian Embassy building with the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial in the foreground. Embassy Row is the informal name for a section of Northwest Washington, D.C. , with a high concentration of embassies , diplomatic missions , and diplomatic ...
Then President George W. Bush and Laura Bush with Pakistani-American U.S. Army Sgt. Wasim Khan at the 2004 State of the Union Address, U.S. Capitol building, February 1, 2004. Pakistani-American soldiers compose a sizable proportion of the over 4,000 Muslim service members in the U.S. military. [46]
The second phase was completed in April 2011, [4] making it the largest gurdwara in North America [5] at 90,000 square feet (8,400 m 2). The chief architect and designer of the project is the late Malkiat Singh Sidhu. The largest audience at the San Jose Gurdwara was on opening day when some 20,000 people were thought to have come.
Abdur Rahman Hye – (also known as A. R. Hye) – pioneer of institutional architecture in Pakistan; Yasmeen Lari (Karachi) – Pakistan's first woman architect [3] [citation needed] Nasreddin Murat-Khan (Lahore) – architect of the Minar-e-Pakistan and other structures
The embassy of Pakistan in Washington, D.C., was built on 28 August 1947, when Pakistan attained independence from Great Britain and separated from India to form the Dominion of Pakistan. From the onset, Pakistan adopted a pro-American policy, with relations taking an upturn in 1954 when Pakistan signed several defense pacts with the United ...