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The Embassy of the United States in Islamabad is the diplomatic mission of the United States in Pakistan. The embassy in Islamabad is one of the largest U.S. embassies in the world, in terms of personnel, and houses a chancery and complex of office buildings. [1] The embassy complex also houses a contingent of military officials and ...
14th Street NW/SW is a street in Northwest and Southwest quadrants of Washington, D.C., located 1.25 miles (2.01 km) west of the U.S. Capitol. It runs from the 14th Street Bridge north to Eastern Avenue .
Independence Day ( Urdu: یومِ آزادی, romanized : Yaum-i Āzādī ), observed annually on 14 August, is a national holiday in Pakistan. It commemorates the day when Pakistan achieved independence and was declared a sovereign state following the termination of the British Raj in August 1947. Pakistan came into existence as a result of ...
It is the country's ninth-most populous city with a population of over 1.2 million people [5] [9] and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital Territory. Built as a planned city in the 1960s and established in 1967, it replaced Karachi as Pakistan's national capital.
Guide map of northeast Islamabad with its sectors. Sectors of Islamabad are administrative divisions of Zone I and Zone II of the Islamabad Capital Territory region. The capital territory is divided into 5 zones, of which Zone I and Zone II have been designated urban development zones.
Constitution Avenue, also known as Shahrah-e-Dastoor (Urdu: شاہراہ دستور), is a major north-south avenue in Islamabad, Pakistan that passess through the Red Zone. Its north end meets with the Khayban-e-Iqbal intersection and south end with an intersection of Srinagar Highway .
Blue Area is the central business district of Islamabad, Pakistan along the Jinnah Avenue. [1] The area is a 2-kilometer (1.2 mi)-long corridor along Islamabad's Khayaban-e-Quaid-e-Azam (also known as Jinnah Avenue ), [2] Islamabad's primary arterial road which leads up to the main government buildings. It is characterized by clean, wide roads ...
Seventh Avenue, also known as the Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi Avenue, [2] is a signal free road located in Islamabad. It starts from the intersection on Khayaban-e-Iqbal (Margalla Road) near Islamabad Zoo, and ends at the intersection on Srinagar Highway . Seventh Avenue was built at a cost of about PKR 70 million. [1]
Geography of Islamabad. Islamabad is located at 33.6844°N 73.0479°E at the edge of the Pothohar Plateau at the foot of the Margalla Hills in Islamabad Capital Territory. Its elevation is 507 metres (1,663 ft), the highest being 1,584 m (5,196 ft). The modern capital and the ancient Gakhar city of Rawalpindi stand side by side and are commonly ...
Islamabad Expressway along its designated bike lane on the left. The Islamabad Expressway (Urdu: اسلام آباد گزرگاه), sometimes also referred to as Islamabad Highway, is a major north–south expressway in Islamabad, Capital Territory, Pakistan.