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lescol Age: 37 4191 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	Subject : Pakistan before 90s Pakistan before 90s Karachi’s congested Merewether Tower area in 1976. A badly managed economy (through haphazard nationalisation), and the reluctance of the private sector to invest in the city’s once thriving businesses strengthened the unregulated aspects of a growing informal economy that began to serve the needs of the city’s population. The flip side of this informal economic enterprise was the creeping corruption in the police and other government institutions that began to extort money from these unfettered and informal businesses. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 12 2015 12:40:31 PM

lescol Age: 37 4191 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	Marriot, 1977: This is a 1977 photograph showing Islamabad’s Marriot Hotel (then called Holiday Inn) being constructed. Almost three decades later this famous hotel was blown up by suicide bombers and/or psychotics who were in a hurry to reach the rooms their handlers had booked for them in paradise. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 15 2015 10:22:45 AM

lescol Age: 37 4191 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	A vibrant 1973 poster prepared and printed by the Pakistan Ministry of Tourism to attract tourism to the city of Lahore. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 15 2015 10:23:46 AM

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A copy of famous spy novelist, Edward S. Arron’s 1962 book ‘Assignment Karachi.’
The book was one of the many he wrote that involved the adventures of CIA agent Sam Durell in various cities across the world.
This novel, which narrated the tale of Durell working with Pakistani authorities to capture Soviet-backed henchmen, became an instant best-seller in Pakistan.
However, in a quirky twist, some copies of this novel were set on fire by pro-Soviet leftist students during a demonstration (at the Karachi University) against Ayub Khan’s education policy in 1962.

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Posted on December, 15 2015 10:25:49 AM

lescol Age: 37 4191 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	A 1967 tourism poster for Karachi (printed by American airline Pan Am and used in Europe and the US). Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 15 2015 10:28:35 AM

lescol Age: 37 4191 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	A special stamp released by government of Pakistan in 1973, to plead the return of the 90,000 Pakistani prisoners of war captured by the Indian forces during the 1971 war. Pakistan lost its eastern wing (East Pakistan) in the war. The break gave birth to Bangladesh. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 15 2015 10:30:36 AM

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A 1970 copy of a paperback version of the conspiratorial (and fictitious) book, ‘Protocols of Zion,’ printed in Pakistan in 1969.
The Protocols, a book describing a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world, first appeared in Russia in 1903. It was written by an obscure Russian anti-Semite author (most probably as a novel), but was given a whole new angle and widespread publicity by anti-Semite American industrial tycoons like Henry Ford and then by the Nazi regime in Germany

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Posted on December, 15 2015 10:32:11 AM

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Karachi’s ‘Three Swords’ area in 1974. It was ‘beautified’ during the Bhutto regime but today has become a busy and congested artery connecting Clifton with the centre of the city. It was during the Bhutto government that the city’s first three-lane roads were constructed (Shara-e-Faisal), dotted with trees; the Clifton area was further beautified; foundation of the country’s first steel mill laid (in Karachi); and the construction of a large casino started (near the shores of the Clifton Beach) to accommodate the ever-growing traffic of European, American and Arab tourists

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Posted on December, 15 2015 10:33:47 AM

lescol Age: 37 4191 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	Pakistan Television’s Karachi Studios: Urdu news being delivered from Pakistan Television’s Karachi Studios (1974) Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 15 2015 10:36:40 AM

Awais148 Age: 30 4325 days old here Total Posts: 12184 Points : 198 Location: Attock, Pakistan Status : Offline	wow very nice post i realy like it how simplicity in before 90s and now its going to hell every person Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 15 2015 08:19:15 PM

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very historical topic thanks lescol
brother for share this history with us.

#PakistanBefore90s

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Posted on December, 17 2015 10:09:50 PM

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