Saturday, September 12, 2020

Once upon a Time Pakistan | Liberal Pakistan

1-Pakistan First Super Model Rakshanda
1980s Tourists enjoying Tea in Ziarat – Balochistan
A German tourist posing outside a 'hashish' shop in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (1976)
A Jewish festival being celebrated in Karachi.
A terrific 1975 photograph of a scholarly talk show on PTV. Intellectual talk shows were rather popular on TV in Pakistan in the 1970s. This one shows renowned playwrights, Ashfaq Ahmed and Bano Qudsia (center right),
A vintage 1969 coaster of the Pakistani beer brand, Murree. This particular coaster is from the bar at Karachi’s Excelsior Club that was situated in the Saddar area but forced to close down in 1977.
American tourists on a train to Lahore from Karachi in 1976.
Future US President Barak Obama visited Karachi as a visiting university student and stayed with a roommate of his in Karachi (1981).
girls common room of Dow Medical College in 1960.
Hippie tourists enjoying themselves at a hut at one of Karachi’s many beaches in 1973.
Locals and ex-pats drinking alcohol at Karachi's Beach Luxury Hotel in 1969.
Mohammad Ali and Sultan Rahi
Moonwalkers in Karachi, 1973  How many of you know or remember that the entire crew of NASA’s Apollo 17 flight to the moon visited Pakistan In July 1973, astronauts of the United State’s last mission to the moon arrived in Karachi.
Mushtaq Mohammad and Sadiq Mohammad tasting Bear in Karachi
Pakistan's female swimmers in a swimming competition in the '70s
People lining up at the premiere of 'Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom' at Karachi's Nishat Cinema in 1984. The theatre was burned down by religious fanatics in 2012.
South African fast bowler Fanie DVliers in Faislabad in 1997 on SA tour of Pak.
The Cricketing heroes of the 90’s.
The local metro rail in Karachi1962.

 Tourist in Deen Hotel Peshawar

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