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Pakistan

3 places
Pakistan runs along the Indus, the river that fed one of the world's first great civilisations five thousand years ago, whose brick cities were laid out on a grid with covered drains before most of the world had writing. Carved out of British India in 1947 as a homeland for Muslims, it is a young…

The Northwest (Khyber & Gandhara)1 place

Taxila & GandharaPoint · ●●●○○The ruins of an ancient centre of learning where Greek and Buddhist worlds fused, producing the serene Gandhara…

Punjab (Lahore & the Five Rivers)1 place

LahoreTown · ●●●●○The cultural heart of Pakistan, a Mughal capital of vast red-sandstone mosques and forts, a labyrinthine walled old…

Sindh (Karachi & the Indus)1 place

Mohenjo-daroPoint · ●●●●○One of the world's first cities, a Bronze Age metropolis on the Indus laid out on a grid with brick houses, public…