Pakistan is both a new country and a very old one. It did not exist as a nation until 1947. Yet within Pakistan are areas whose history dates back 500,000 years to the days when man first learned to make crude implements of stone. It is a land studded with the remains ancient cultures and the monument of past civilization. Perhaps the most famous of these 2500 and 1500 B.C., and whose remains were found at Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa. A visitor interested in ancient cultures can see unfolding before his eyes a panorama of history that will take him from the Stone and Bronze ages through the Indus Valley, Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim periods of Pakistan’s past. He will also see the growth of modern Pakistan during the period of its recent emergence as an independent nation. Pakistan’s Present culture bears the imprint of all its past civilizations.

 With all this, the visitor will see streets crowded with automobiles; men and women rushing to their work in factories and offices; universities, colleges, schools full of students learning modern techniques of industry and scientific research; homes with modern conveniences in the cities and even in many smaller towns; and factories busy producing goods both for export and use at home. For Pakistan today is a society in rapid transition, maintaining many of its traditional features while adapting itself to the needs of modern industry and technology.

 When Pakistan began life as a nation in 1947, it was composed of two distinct regions----West Pakistan and East Pakistan-----situated almost 1,000 miles (1, 600 kilometers) apart. In 1971 the former East Pakistan broke away from Pakistan and declared itself the independent nation of Bangladesh