Tell about History of Pakistan?

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) was founded on 23 October 1946 as Orient Airways.

The airline was nationalized on January 10th, 1955. The airline has a world record for flying the fastest between London and Karachi. The airline achieved this feat in 1962 when they completed the flight in 6 hours, 43 minutes, 55 seconds, a record which remains unbroken to this day.

K-2 (Chagori) is the highest mountain peak in Pakistan and the second highest in the world.

Pakistan also has one of the oldest civilizations in history, Mehrgarh, dating back to 6000 B.C. Mehrgarh is now seen as a precursor to the Indus Valley Civilization. It is one of the earliest sites with evidence of farming and herding in South Asia.

They also have a rare species of ‘Blind Dolphin’ found in the water of Indus River.

It is the second most endangered freshwater dolphin species in the world, the first being the ‘functionally extinct’ Yangtze River dolphin.

Pakistan also made history with the youngest civil judge in the world.

Mohammed Ilyas passed the exam when he was 20 years and 9 months old and thus became the youngest civil judge in the world.

The ‘Khewra Salt Mine’ in Pakistan is the second largest and oldest salt mine in the world.

Pakistan has the only fertile desert in the world – the Tharparkar desert – located in Sindh province

Pakistan has the eleventh-largest armed force in the world. It has 617,000 people in its army. UN peacekeeping missions are supported largely by the Pakistani army.

According to a survey, Pakistan has one of the world’s top national anthem tunes. The duration of Pakistan’s National Anthem is 80 seconds.

Pakistanis are the fourth-most intelligent people in the world, according to poll results gathered from 125 countries by the Institute of European Business Administration

The world’s seventh-largest collection of scientists and engineers is from Pakistan.

The world’s longest glacial system outside the polar regions – the Biafo Glacier – is in Pakistan.

The largest earth-filled dam in the world (and fifth largest by structural volume) is the ‘Tarbela Dam’ on the Indus river in Pakistan. The dam was built in 1968 and 1976. The dam is 143.26 meters high and 2,743.2 meters long.

Out of the total land area in Pakistan, 25% is under agricultural cultivation. Pakistan irrigates three times more land area than Russia