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Abdul Sattar Edhi NI LPP (Urdu: عبد الستار ایدھی; 28 February 1928 [6] – 8 July 2016) [1] [7] [2] [8] was a Pakistani humanitarian, philanthropist and ascetic who founded the Edhi Foundation, which runs the world's largest ambulance network, [9] along with homeless shelters, animal shelters, [10] rehabilitation centres, and orphanages across Pakistan.
The development of the Standard Model of particle physics by Sheldon Glashow's discovery in 1960 of a way to combine the electromagnetic and weak interactions. [6] In 1967 Steven Weinberg [ 7 ] and Abdus Salam [ 8 ] incorporated the Higgs mechanism [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] into Glashow's electroweak theory , giving it its modern form.
Field hockey is the national sport of Pakistan; it has won three gold medals in the Olympic Games held in 1960, 1968, and 1984. [28] Pakistan has also won the Hockey World Cup a record four times, held in 1971, 1978, 1982, and 1994. [29] Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore is the third-largest cricket stadium in Pakistan with a seating capacity of 27,000 ...
Pakistan Vision 2025 is a set of goals for social, economic, security, and governance developments outlined by the government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to be achieved by 2025. The overall goal is for Pakistan to become an upper-middle income country by 2025 and to eventually become one of the top ten economies in the world by 2047 ...
' Crescent of Pakistan,,ہلا لے پاکستان ') [1] is the second-highest civil award (in the hierarchy of "Hilal") [2] of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The award seeks to recognize those people who have made "meritorious contribution to the national interests of Pakistan, or cultural , social contribution, or other ...
Jinnah announcing the creation of Pakistan over All India Radio on 3 June 1947. On 3rd June 1947, after an agreement for the Partition, the viceroy and the community leaders addressed the public on the radio. Jinnah ended his speech with Pakistan Zindabad!. Some listeners misunderstood his accented Urdu as the much informal "Pakistan's in the ...
The Pakistan Monument (Urdu: یادگارِ پاکستان) is a national monument and heritage museum located on the western Shakarparian Hills in Islamabad, Pakistan. The monument was constructed to symbolize the unity of the Pakistani people. It is dedicated to the people of Pakistan who sacrificed their "today" for a better "tomorrow".
In addition to sites inscribed on the World Heritage List, member states can maintain a list of tentative sites that they may consider for nomination. Nominations for the World Heritage List are only accepted if the site was previously listed on the tentative list. [11] Pakistan has 26 properties on its tentative list. [3]