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Sindh
Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro
Mohenjo-daro, 'Mound of the Dead' in Sindhi, is the most important surviving city of the Indus Valley Civilisation and a UNESCO World Herita
Punjab
Taxila
Taxila is the great archaeological landscape of ancient Gandhara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site spread across the Haro valley northwest of Is
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Takht-i-Bahi Buddhist Ruins
Takht-i-Bahi is the best-preserved Buddhist monastery in Pakistan and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a 1st-century BCE Gandharan complex spre
Punjab
Lahore Fort & Shalamar Gardens
The Lahore Fort (Shahi Qila) and the Shalamar Gardens are a joint UNESCO World Heritage Site and the twin jewels of Mughal Lahore. The fort
Sindh
Historical Monuments at Makli, Thatta
The Makli Necropolis at Thatta is one of the largest funerary sites in the world, a UNESCO World Heritage Site where, across roughly ten squ
Punjab
Rohtas Fort
Rohtas Fort is a colossal 16th-century garrison fortress and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, built by the Afghan ruler Sher Shah Suri around 1
Punjab
Badshahi Mosque
The Badshahi Mosque is the grand Mughal statement of Lahore, a vast composition of red Mughal sandstone and white marble built in 1673 by th
Punjab
Wazir Khan Mosque
The Wazir Khan Mosque is the most beautiful interior in the Walled City of Lahore, a 1634 Mughal mosque famous above all for its kashi-kari,
Punjab
Harappa
Harappa gave its name to an entire civilisation. The Harappan, or Indus Valley, Civilisation, one of the three earliest urban cultures in th
Balochistan
Mehrgarh
Mehrgarh is where settled life in South Asia begins. On the Kacchi plain of Balochistan at the foot of the Bolan Pass, the site documents co
Punjab
Derawar and Cholistan Desert Forts
Derawar Fort is the great desert citadel of Cholistan, a square fortress of forty colossal bastions rising abruptly from the sands of the Ba
Punjab
Katas Raj Temples
Katas Raj is an ancient cluster of Hindu temples gathered around a sacred green pond in the Salt Range of the Punjab, a site whose origins r
Punjab
Nankana Sahib
Nankana Sahib is the holiest site in Sikhism, the birthplace of Guru Nanak, the founder of the faith, born here in 1469. The town, about 75
Punjab
Kartarpur Sahib
Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur is where Guru Nanak spent the last eighteen years of his life and died in 1539, making it one of the most sa
Punjab
Panja Sahib
Gurdwara Panja Sahib at Hasan Abdal is one of the most revered Sikh shrines in Pakistan, built around a rock bearing what tradition holds to
Balochistan
Hinglaj Mata Temple
Hinglaj Mata (Hinglaj Devi) is one of the most sacred Hindu temples in Pakistan and a Shakti Peetha, a site where, in tradition, part of the
Gilgit-Baltistan
Central Karakoram National Park
Central Karakoram National Park is the largest national park in Pakistan and one of the highest-altitude protected areas on Earth, a vast wi
Gilgit-Baltistan
K2
K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth at 8,611 m and, by wide consensus, the hardest and most dangerous of the fourteen 8,000-metre pea
Gilgit-Baltistan
Nanga Parbat
Nanga Parbat is the ninth-highest mountain on Earth at 8,126 m and the western anchor of the entire Himalayan range, the point where the Him
Gilgit-Baltistan
Fairy Meadows
Fairy Meadows is a high alpine grassland of wildflowers and pine, perched at around 3,300 m directly beneath the ice wall of Nanga Parbat, a
Gilgit-Baltistan
Attabad Lake
Attabad Lake is the startling turquoise centrepiece of upper Hunza, a body of water that did not exist before January 2010, when a massive l
Gilgit-Baltistan
Naltar Valley
Naltar is an alpine valley of pine forest, ski slopes, and impossibly coloured lakes tucked above Gilgit, a complete contrast to the bare ro
Gilgit-Baltistan
Shandur Polo Festival
Shandur is 'the roof of the world' to polo players, a high grassy plateau at around 3,700 m between Chitral and Gilgit, home to the highest
Gilgit-Baltistan
Deosai National Park
Deosai is a high-altitude plateau the size of a small country, the 'Land of Giants' of local legend, sitting at an average of around 4,100 m
Gilgit-Baltistan
Khunjerab Pass / National Park
The Khunjerab Pass is the highest paved international border crossing in the world, 4,693 m on the crest of the Karakoram, where the Karakor
Balochistan
Hingol National Park
Hingol is the largest national park in Pakistan by some measures and one of its most surreal landscapes, a vast expanse of Balochistan coast
Balochistan
Kund Malir
Kund Malir is where the Makran Coastal Highway meets the Arabian Sea, golden sand, rock outcrops, and the sense that the desert has run out
Balochistan
Astola Island
Astola Island, Jezira Haft Talar, the 'Island of the Seven Hills', is the largest offshore island in Pakistan, a windswept, uninhabited tabl
Balochistan
Miani Hor Lagoon
Miani Hor is a large coastal lagoon on the Balochistan coast near Sonmiani, north-west of Karachi, one of the most important wetlands on Pak
Balochistan
Ormara Beach
Ormara is a fishing town and naval base on the Makran Coastal Highway, built around a spectacular geography: a wide crescent bay backed by a
Balochistan
Jiwani Coastal Wetland
Jiwani sits at Pakistan's far southwestern tip, a small port and fishing town on the Gulf of Oman, almost on the Iranian border. Its coastal
Balochistan
Sapat Beach
Sapat Beach is one of the Makran coast's hidden set-pieces, a secluded cove where a great natural rock arch of golden sandstone reaches out
Balochistan
Bhit Khori
Bhit Khori (also spelt Bhit Khoori) is a rugged stretch of coastline west of Karachi near Hub, where golden, wind-sculpted cliffs and rock p
Balochistan
Churna Island
Churna is a small, uninhabited rocky island off the Balochistan coast near the Karachi border, and Pakistan's premier spot for scuba diving
Sindh
Clifton Beach
Clifton Beach, 'Sea View' to most Karachiites, is the great public seafront of Pakistan's largest city: a long sweep of grey-gold sand along
Sindh
Manora Beach
Manora is a small island and former cantonment at the mouth of Karachi Harbour, reached by a short boat ride from Keamari or by road along t
Sindh
Mubarak Village Beach
Mubarak Village is a traditional Baloch fishing settlement at the far northwestern edge of Karachi, where the city finally gives way to the
Balochistan
Ziarat Juniper Forest
The Ziarat juniper forest is one of the largest and oldest juniper forests in the world, a vast, slow-growing woodland spread across the hig
Punjab
Salt Range and Khewra Salt Mine
The Khewra Salt Mine is the second-largest salt mine in the world and one of the oldest, worked since the armies of Alexander the Great noti
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Neelum Valley
The Neelum Valley runs northeast from Muzaffarabad, a river road of pines, suspension bridges, and villages pressed against the Line of Cont
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Kalasha Valleys Cultural Landscape
In the southern Hindu Kush near Chitral, the Kalasha valleys of Bumburet (Bumboorat), Rumbur, and Birir hold one of Pakistan's last continuo
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Lake Saiful Muluk
Lake Saiful Muluk sits at 3,224 m at the head of the Kaghan Valley, above Naran, mirroring the snows of Malika Parbat in still glacial water
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Kalam Valley
Kalam is upper Swat's forested valley town where the Ushu and Utror rivers meet, ringed by pine slopes and gateway to high meadows like Maho
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Malam Jabba
Malam Jabba is Pakistan's best-known ski resort, set on a forested ridge in Swat with a chairlift, winter snow runs, and summer adventure ac
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Babusar Top
Babusar Top is the 4,173 m pass that links the Kaghan Valley to the Karakoram Highway near Chilas, a short, dramatic summer-only crossing wi
Gilgit-Baltistan
Concordia & Baltoro Glacier
Concordia is the great glacial junction where the Baltoro and Godwin-Austen glaciers meet, a flat, rubble-strewn amphitheatre at around 4,60
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Ratti Gali Lake
Ratti Gali is a glacier-fed alpine lake high above the Neelum Valley, reached by a jeep track and a final climb from Dowarian. In summer the
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Keran & Upper Neelum
Keran is a riverside village where the Neelum Valley narrows to a green corridor, the river running fast between forested slopes with the fa
Islamabad Capital Territory
Faisal Mosque
Faisal Mosque is Islamabad's defining landmark, a modernist, tent-shaped mosque at the foot of the Margalla Hills, one of the largest in the
Islamabad Capital Territory
Pakistan Monument
The Pakistan Monument is a blooming-petal national landmark on the Shakarparian hills, its curved granite petals enclosing a star and overlo
Sindh
Ranikot Fort
Ranikot is often called the 'Great Wall of Sindh', among the largest forts in the world, with meandering rubble-stone ramparts running for r
Sindh
Mazar-e-Quaid
Mazar-e-Quaid is the white-marble mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, set on a raised platform within a 61-acre gardened
Sindh
Mohatta Palace
Mohatta Palace is a pink-stone mansion in Karachi's seaside Clifton, built in 1927 as the summer home of Shivratan Mohatta, a Hindu Marwari
Sindh
Gorakh Hill Station
Gorakh Hill Station is Sindh's only hill station, a plateau in the Kirthar range roughly 95 km from Dadu and around 500 km from Karachi, wit
Sindh
Keenjhar Lake
Keenjhar (Kalri) Lake near Thatta is the largest freshwater lake in Sindh, stretching some 24 km long and 6 km wide across 13,468 hectares,
Punjab
Shrine of Bahauddin Zakariya
The shrine of Bahauddin Zakariya crowns the old fort mound in Multan, a 13th-century Suhrawardi Sufi mausoleum at the heart of a city so den
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Mahabat Khan Mosque
The Mahabat Khan Mosque is a 17th-century Mughal mosque set deep in Peshawar's old city, white-marble façade, twin minarets, and a frescoed
Balochistan
Gwadar & the Hammerhead
Gwadar is a deep-water port city on the Makran coast of Balochistan, wrapped around a dramatic hammerhead peninsula where two crescent bays
Gilgit-Baltistan
Shangrila & Lower Kachura Lake
Shangrila, the 'Heaven on Earth' resort, sits beside the still, green waters of Lower Kachura Lake at about 2,500 m near Skardu, its red-roo
Gilgit-Baltistan
Khaplu Palace
Khaplu Palace, known locally as Yabgo Khar, the 'fort on the roof', is a restored 19th-century royal residence in the Ghanche valley east of
Sindh
Shah Jahan Mosque, Thatta
The Shah Jahan Mosque at Thatta is a 17th-century Mughal masterpiece, built between 1644 and 1647 as a gift from Emperor Shah Jahan to the p
Balochistan
Hanna Lake
Hanna Lake is a turquoise reservoir set at about 1,980 m in the hills of the Urak Valley, roughly 10 km east of Quetta, the largest lake in
Balochistan
Quaid-e-Azam Residency, Ziarat
The Quaid-e-Azam Residency at Ziarat is the colonial-era wooden lodge where Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, spent the final tw
Punjab
Murree & the Galiyat
Murree is Pakistan's most famous hill station, a Victorian-era resort town strung along a forested ridge at around 2,300 m, just a couple of
Punjab
Soon Sakesar Valley
The Soon Sakesar Valley is a green upland pocket in Khushab district's Salt Range, built around three brackish lakes, Khabeki, Uchhali, and
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Arang Kel
Arang Kel is a mountaintop meadow village set on a shelf at roughly 2,554 m above Kel in the upper Neelum Valley, reached only by a one-kilo
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Leepa Valley
Leepa is one of Azad Kashmir's most beautiful and most isolated valleys, a fertile bowl of terraced rice fields, carved wooden Kashmiri hous
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Banjosa Lake
Banjosa is a calm, pine-ringed lake at about 1,980 m in the hills near Rawalakot, in the Poonch district of Azad Kashmir, one of the most ea
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Pir Chinasi
Pir Chinasi is a hilltop shrine and viewpoint at 2,900 m, about 30 km east of Muzaffarabad, built over the resting place of the Sufi saint S
Gilgit-Baltistan
Broad Peak
Broad Peak rises to 8,051 m on the border of China and Pakistan in the Baltoro Muztagh, the world's 12th-highest mountain, sharing the Conco
Gilgit-Baltistan
Gasherbrum I (Hidden Peak)
Gasherbrum I, officially K5 in the Karakoram survey, reaches 8,080 m as the world's 11th-highest peak. The name Hidden Peak was coined by Wi
Gilgit-Baltistan
Gasherbrum II
Gasherbrum II stands at 8,035 m, the world's 13th-highest mountain, sharing base camp with Gasherbrum I at the head of the Baltoro Glacier.
Gilgit-Baltistan
Rakaposhi
Rakaposhi dominates the Nagar Valley at 7,788 m, the world's 27th-highest mountain (12th-highest in Pakistan) but arguably its most dramatic
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Tirich Mir
Tirich Mir reaches 7,708 m as the highest point in the Hindu Kush, and indeed the highest mountain in the world outside the Himalaya-Karakor
Gilgit-Baltistan
Gasherbrum IV
Gasherbrum IV stands at 7,925 m at the head of the Baltoro Glacier, technically one of the most demanding mountains in the world. Its West F
Gilgit-Baltistan
Masherbrum (K1)
Masherbrum, originally the K1 of the Karakoram survey before K2 was measured, rises to 7,821 m above the Hushe Valley in Gilgit-Baltistan. I
Gilgit-Baltistan
Distaghil Sar
Distaghil Sar, at 7,885 m, is the highest point in the Hispar Muztagh and the dominant peak of the Shimshal region. First climbed in 1960 by
Gilgit-Baltistan
Ultar Sar
Ultar Sar rises to 7,388 m directly above Karimabad in Hunza, making it one of the most dramatically positioned high mountains in Pakistan,
Gilgit-Baltistan
Haramosh
Haramosh is a 7,409 m Karakoram giant rising east of the Indus near Gilgit, a steep, serious mountain that towers over the Haramosh valley a
Gilgit-Baltistan
Spantik (Golden Peak)
Spantik, also called Golden Peak for the warm granite glow of its south face at sunset, stands at 7,027 m in the Nagar District. Approached
Gilgit-Baltistan
Muztagh Tower
The Muztagh Tower at 7,273 m is one of the most distinctive mountain forms in the Karakoram, a slender granite tower rising above the Baltor
Gilgit-Baltistan
Trango Towers
The Trango Towers are a group of granite monoliths rising from the Baltoro Glacier, the Great Trango Tower's east face, at 1,340 m of near-v
Gilgit-Baltistan
Laila Peak
Laila Peak, a 6,096 m near-perfect pyramid above the Hushe Valley, is widely considered the most beautiful mountain in Pakistan. Its triangu
Gilgit-Baltistan
Charakusa Valley
The Charakusa Valley above Hushe village is one of the most concentrated collections of technical climbing objectives in the world, K6 (7,04
Gilgit-Baltistan
Passu Cones
The Passu Cones, a row of dark, sharply pointed rock spires rising behind Passu village on the Karakoram Highway, are among the most photogr
Gilgit-Baltistan
Baltoro Glacier
The Baltoro Glacier is 62 km of moving ice in the heart of the Karakoram, the highway that carries every climber and trekker toward K2, Broa
Gilgit-Baltistan
Batura Glacier
The Batura Glacier flows 57 km from the Batura Wall above Passu, one of the longest glaciers outside the polar regions. Its snout pushes clo
Gilgit-Baltistan
Passu Glacier
The Passu Glacier descends from the peaks above Passu village on the Karakoram Highway and is one of the most accessible glaciers in Pakista
Gilgit-Baltistan
Snow Lake (Lukpe Lawo)
Snow Lake, Lukpe Lawo in the local Burusho language, is one of the largest glaciated basins outside the polar regions, a vast high plateau a
Gilgit-Baltistan
Gondogoro La
Gondogoro La is a 5,585 m glacier pass that closes the loop on the K2 base camp trek, the dramatic crossing that lets trekkers descend from
Gilgit-Baltistan
Shimshal Valley
Shimshal is Pakistan's highest permanent settlement at 3,100 m, home to the Wakhi people, a community that has lived, herded, and farmed at
Gilgit-Baltistan
Karambar Lake
Karambar Lake sits at 4,275 m in the remote Ishkoman Valley of Ghizer district, one of the highest lakes in the world and among the least vi
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Naran & Kaghan Valley
Naran sits at 2,409 m at the head of the Kaghan Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the main hub for the valley's adventure activities and the bas
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Swat River Rafting
The Swat River is Pakistan's premier commercial white-water rafting destination, a clean, fast mountain river draining the Hindu Kush foothi
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Chitral
Chitral sits at 1,494 m in a wide valley beneath the Hindu Kush, Pakistan's mountaineering frontier town and the gateway to some of the coun
Gilgit-Baltistan
Passu & Gulmit
Passu and Gulmit are twin Gojal villages on the upper Karakoram Highway, roughly 100 km north of Karimabad, the launching pad for some of th
Gilgit-Baltistan
Askole
Askole is the last permanent habitation before the Baltoro Glacier, a small stone village at 3,015 m in the Braldu Valley of Baltistan from
Islamabad Capital Territory
Daman-e-Koh
Daman-e-Koh, 'hem of the mountain' in Urdu, is the most iconic viewpoint in the Margalla Hills, sitting at roughly 500 m above Islamabad's F
Islamabad Capital Territory
Margalla Hills National Park
The Margalla Hills National Park forms the southern foothills of the Himalayas and surrounds Islamabad on its northern edge, a 17,386-hectar
Islamabad Capital Territory
Rawal Lake
Rawal Lake is a 8.8 km² reservoir in the Margalla Hills foothills, sitting on the edge of Islamabad and supplying drinking water for both th
Islamabad Capital Territory
Saidpur Village
Saidpur is a 500-year-old village that survived Islamabad's growth to become its most atmospheric heritage neighbourhood. Originally a Mugha
Islamabad Capital Territory
Shah Allah Ditta Caves
Shah Allah Ditta is an ancient cave complex at the base of the Margalla Hills on Islamabad's western edge, a 2,000-year-old Buddhist monasti
Islamabad Capital Territory
Lok Virsa Heritage Museum
The Lok Virsa Heritage Museum is Pakistan's national folk and traditional culture museum, located in Islamabad's Shakarparian Hills park. Fo
Balochistan
Gadani Beach
Gadani is a long, dark-sand beach on the Balochistan coast 60 km north-west of Karachi, most famous as the site of one of the world's larges
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Khyber Pass
The Khyber Pass is the most historically important mountain pass in South Asia, a 53 km corridor at 1,070 m through the Hindu Kush linking P
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Qissa Khwani Bazaar, Peshawar
Qissa Khwani, 'Bazaar of the Storytellers', is the historic heart of Peshawar's walled city, one of the oldest commercial streets in Central
Punjab
Multan, City of Saints
Multan is one of the oldest cities in the world, estimates place continuous occupation at over 5,000 years, and Alexander the Great is recor
Gilgit-Baltistan
Gilgit
Gilgit is the capital of Gilgit-Baltistan and the working hub of the north, sitting where the Gilgit and Hunza rivers gather before joining
Gilgit-Baltistan
Hopar Glacier, Nagar
Hopar (also spelled Hoper) is a cluster of villages in a natural bowl in the Nagar valley, reached by a short side road off the main Hunza-N
Gilgit-Baltistan
Ganish Village
Ganish is the oldest settlement on the Silk Road in the Hunza valley, at least 1,000 years old and the first stop for caravans travelling th
Gilgit-Baltistan
Hussaini Suspension Bridge
The Hussaini Suspension Bridge crosses the Hunza River in the Gojal tehsil of upper Hunza, linking the villages of Hussaini and Zarabad. At
Gilgit-Baltistan
Sacred Rocks of Hunza (Haldeikish)
Haldeikish, known in English as the Sacred Rocks of Hunza, is one of the earliest documented sites of petroglyphs along the ancient Silk Rou
Gilgit-Baltistan
Ladyfinger Peak (Bublimotin)
Ladyfinger Peak, known locally as Bublimotin, is a slender granite spire rising to roughly 6,000 metres above Karimabad, immediately recogni
Gilgit-Baltistan
Baltit Fort
Baltit Fort has stood above Karimabad for roughly 700 years, the ancestral seat of Hunza's ruling Mirs and the valley's most recognisable la
Gilgit-Baltistan
Altit Fort
At around 1,100 years old, Altit Fort is the oldest standing monument in Hunza, a watchtower and residence perched directly over a sheer dro
Gilgit-Baltistan
Karimabad
Karimabad is the central town of Hunza, built on a series of terraces above the valley floor directly beneath Baltit Fort. It is the natural
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Muzaffarabad
Muzaffarabad is the capital of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, sitting at the confluence of the Neelum and Jhelum rivers where the Hazara-Kashmir Sy
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Dhani Waterfall
Dhani Waterfall drops directly onto the Neelum road about 40 km out of Muzaffarabad, close enough to the tarmac that most vehicles simply pu
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Kutton Waterfall
Kutton Waterfall is a broad weir on the Jagran River, a Neelum tributary, right where the pine-forested Jagran Valley meets the main road ne
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Sharda
Sharda is the Neelum Valley's largest town beyond Muzaffarabad, framed by snow-streaked peaks and set beside the river. Its real claim to fa
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Kel
Kel is the last town in the Neelum Valley reached by a proper road, and the practical base for the valley's final stretch. From here a chair
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Shounter Valley
The Shounter Valley is a high side-valley reached by jeep track off the Kel-Taobat road, its centrepiece a glassy alpine lake that mirrors t
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Chitta Katha Lake
Chitta Katha Lake is a remote, high-altitude glacial lake reached only by a demanding trek above the Shounter Valley, among the least-visite
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Taobat
Taobat is the last village of the Neelum Valley, a scatter of wooden houses and meadows at 7,500 feet where the Kishenganga River crosses in
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Red Fort (Muzaffarabad Fort)
The Red Fort sits directly above the Neelum River in Muzaffarabad, its weathered sandstone walls dating to the 16th century. Smaller and les
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Chikar
Chikar is a cool hill station about 46 km from Muzaffarabad, reached via Hattian Bala on a spur off the main Jhelum Valley road. It's a mode
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Zalzal Lake
Zalzal Lake, Urdu for 'earthquake lake', formed when the catastrophic 2005 Kashmir earthquake triggered landslides that dammed a valley near
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Ganga Choti
Ganga Choti is a 3,045 m peak near Chikar and Sudhan Gali, and one of Azad Kashmir's most popular treks, holding patches of snow well into s
Punjab
Bhurban
Bhurban is a hill-station resort area on the Murree Expressway, a little above Murree itself, known for its pine forest, a golf course, and
Punjab
Patriata (New Murree)
Patriata, better known as New Murree, is home to a chairlift and cable car climbing a pine-forested ridge south of Murree, with a small amus
Punjab
Kohala Bridge
Kohala Bridge carries the road across the Jhelum River at the historic gateway between Punjab and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The current two-la
Punjab
Tomb of Jahangir & Asif Khan (Shahdara Bagh)
Across the Ravi River from Lahore's old city, the tomb of the Mughal emperor Jahangir stands in a walled garden at Shahdara Bagh, its four t
Punjab
Hiran Minar & Tank
Hiran Minar is one of Mughal India's more unusual monuments: a tall minaret and an octagonal water pavilion rising from a large tank near Sh
Punjab
Tomb of Shah Rukn-e-Alam
The tomb of Shah Rukn-e-Alam rises inside Multan Fort as one of the largest and earliest surviving examples of Tughlaq-era funerary architec
Sindh
Chaukhandi Tombs
On the desert edge of Karachi, the Chaukhandi Tombs form a sandstone necropolis unlike any other in Pakistan, tiered stone platforms carved
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Rehman Dheri
Rehman Dheri is one of the earliest known planned urban settlements in South Asia, a Bronze Age mound near Dera Ismail Khan whose grid-like
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Ranigat
Ranigat is a sprawling Buddhist monastic complex on a rocky hilltop in Buner, its stupas and monastery walls threaded between massive granit
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Shahbazgarhi Rock Edicts
Two large boulders near Mardan carry fourteen edicts of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka, carved in the third century BCE in Kharosthi script, amo
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Mansehra Rock Edicts
Above Mansehra town, a cluster of boulders bears rock edicts of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka, sister inscriptions to those at Shahbazgarhi and
Punjab
Tombs of Uch Sharif
Uch Sharif, an ancient town near Bahawalpur, holds a cluster of glazed-tile Sufi shrines that rank among the finest examples of Multani-styl
Sindh
Port of Banbhore
The excavated ruins of Banbhore sit above the Indus delta near Thatta, marking the site of a major port city occupied for over a thousand ye
Sindh
Nagarparkar Cultural Landscape
At Sindh's far southeastern edge, where the Thar Desert meets the granite Karoonjhar Hills, the Nagarparkar cultural landscape holds a herit
Balochistan
Karez System Cultural Landscape
Across Balochistan's arid plains, the karez system channels mountain groundwater to villages through gently sloped underground tunnels, ofte
Sindh
Kot Diji Fort
Kot Diji Fort rises on a long hilltop above Khairpur, its crenellated ramparts and bastions stretching along the ridge for nearly a kilometr
Sindh
Naukot Fort
Naukot Fort sits at the edge of the Thar Desert near Tharparkar, a square-walled 18th-century Talpur fort whose brick bastions rise abruptly
Sindh
Umerkot Fort
Umerkot Fort crowns a low rise in the Thar Desert town traditionally said to be the birthplace of the Mughal emperor Akbar, born here in 154