Natives of a Sindhi village drench a European tourist with cold water from a well to beat the summer heat (1973)
A 1974 photograph showing the inside of a ‘hashish house’ in Quetta.
Two hippie tourists at a tea shop in Sibi, Balochistan, in 1972. .
Today, traveling to a Baloch town like the one in the picture has become a no-go area even for Pakistanis! (Photo courtesy Rory McLane)
MQM Chief, Altaf Hussain, at MQM member, Farooq Sattar’s wedding in Karachi.
Current Pakistani Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, poses with his car as a young man in late 1960s
Evergreen Chacha Jee Mustansar Hussain Tarar - LEGEND at Lake Como on the border of Italy/Switzerland in 50s
European tourists take a walk at Lahore’s Shalimar Gardens, 1966
VHS cover of Pakistan’s first horror and ‘X-rated’ film, Zinda Laash (The Living Dead). Released in 1967, the film was a huge hit in an era when the Pakistan’s film industry was dishing out an average of 50 films a year, most of them romantic fantasies.
President Lyndon Johnson Meets Ayub Khan in Karachi, Pakistan, 1960s
A poster of 1973 film ‘Operation Pakistan.’ A B-grade film made by a Greek director, the film was released in Pakistan in 1973. It is about the adventures of an FBI agent who tracks down hashish smugglers in Turkey, Iran and Pakistan. The characters of Pakistanis (seen below left) were all played by amateur Pakistani actors. The film was a box-office flop
An American Christian evangelist addressing Pakistani Christians and converts in a village near Abbotabad in 1977. -Picture courtesy Williamson
The American contingent parade past spectators at the 1980 ‘Karachi Olympics’: Zia’s dictatorship managed to strengthen itself soon after the Soviet forces invaded neighbouring Afghanistan in December 1979. Once the US resolved to oppose the Soviet invasion, it (along with Saudi Arabia), began pumping in an unprecedented amount of financial and military aid into Pakistan
British journalist, Tom Waghorn, seen here typing a report while sitting on the slopes of Torkhum near the Pakistan -Afghanistan Border
(Back Row, from left to right) David Houghton of Zimbabwe, Keppler Wessels of South Africa, Mohammed Azharuddin of India, Richie Richardson of the West Indies and Aravinda De Silva of Sri Lanka, (Front Row, from left to right) Martin Crowe of New Zealand, Allan Border of Australia, Graham Gooch of England and Imran Khan of Pakistan during the World Cup Opening Ceremony held on February 22, 1992 in Sydney, Australia.
A European tourist family outside a rest house in Murree, 1974.
A 1972 picture showing European visitors and local Christians seen during a passing out ceremony at a Catholic school in Rawalpindi. –Picture courtesy John Meacham.
Western tourists wait at a bus stand in Sibi, Balochistan (1975).
Altaf Gohar and Khalid Hassan with Noble Prize winning Pakistani scientist, Dr. Abdus Salam (centre) in the late 1970s.
Picture of Princess Diana with our Gullu Police
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