Pakistan – You Must Be Kidding!

Thursday 4 February

Theatre 2
Time: 5.00pm
Title: Pakistan – You Must Be Kidding!
Speaker: Sohail Azhar
Company: Travelpak – Discovering Pakistan

Regularly in the news for all the wrong reasons. But would you like to know what it’s really like? Did you know it is home to some of the most unexplored and isolated places on Earth, an adventure playground hosting the junction of the three greatest mountain ranges in the world: The Himalaya, the Karakoram and the Hindu Kush? Giving rise to the highest concentration of mountains over 7000m and the longest glaciers outside of the Polar regions, it’s a trekkers paradise. Sometimes you might just get to read about this.

But wait, there’s more. Charged with a cultural history dating back over six thousand years, it has been the backdrop of the world’s four major religions? Awe-inspiring Mughal architecture, mystical sufi shrines and the ancient archaeological sites of the oldest civilization known to man. Why not come along and discover what is not covered by the news articles. And we might just talk about the mountains too!

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