Top 10 interesting facts about Pakistan


1. To obtain a passport in Pakistan, the Prophet and his education have to declare their support in the form of Islam. Ahmadiyya has a small Muslim sect, which has a population of about 2 million in Pakistan, will have to fill a separate form because Pakistan does not consider them Muslim.


2. In Pakistan, there is no death penalty for killing Ahalya because they are Kafirs under Islamic law of Pakistan.


3. Pakistan's passport was ranked 4th worst in the world after Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen.


4. Pakistan PKR currency is the weakest currency in entire Asia, weaker than Afghanistan.


5. Pakistan 72 years after independence, saw 22 Prime Ministers, 4 Army Dictators, 3 President's rule and yet is not a democratic country.


6. Dr. Abdus Salam was the first Nobel Prize winner of Pakistan whose tomb was ransacked by the Pakistan Army simply because his tomb said that he was Muslim and he was Ahmadiyya.


7. Only Pakistan Army in the world is the army that owns and operates 4 factories of sugar production and cement production to sell and export to other countries. Every country in the world has an army but the Pakistan Army has a country.


8. Although the ISRO version of SUPARCO, Pakistan, had already been installed before ISRO, it has not been able to send itself a satellite, which places the upper atmosphere alone.


9. Pakistan's army lost all 4 wars against India, they lost half of Pakistan as Bangladesh during 1971 war, but still, you can see the commander wearing the medal hell to lose those wars. Are.


10. Pakistan never won a World Cup cricket match against India and the record was consolidated in the latest edition of the World Cup held in England.

Ganesh ji's picture remains on the 20000 note of Indonesia country of Asia. Here 87.5 percent of the population believes in the religion of Islam and there is only 3 percent Hindu population. Despite this there is so and different reasons are given for it.


It is believed that during the economic recession of Asia in 1997, the price of currency fell in many countries including Indonesia. During this time, Indonesia's currency also fell so low against the dollar that there was a severe economic crisis in the country. It can be called a coincidence, but it is true that after the photo of Ganesh ji was printed on the 20,000 note in 1998, the economic condition of Indonesia and its currency had improved rapidly in 1999. In Indonesia, Lord Ganesha is considered a symbol of education, art and science and hence he has been given a special place on the note there.


You will be surprised to know that in this country, not only Ganesh, an airline operates in Indonesia in the name of Garuda, which is called the vehicle of Lord Vishnu. In Indonesia, stamps have been issued in the names of the Pandavas along with Ganesh, Krishna and Hanuman. Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, also houses a huge statue called Arjuna Vivah, which depicts the scene of the Mahabharata. The National Album of Indonesia is also called Garuda Panchsheel.

The logo of Lord Ganesha is also on the logo of Bandung Institute of Technology, a prestigious engineering college in Indonesia. Not only this, a huge statue of goddess of learning Saraswati has been installed outside the Embassy of Indonesia in America. The mascot of the Indonesian Army is Hanuman ji, and a famous tourist destination there is a statue of Arjun and Shri Krishna. Arjun and Shri Krishna are also remembered as excellent policy makers.

छुट्टियाँ मनाने के लिए दक्षिण भारत में अनेक जगह हैं. यह आप पर निर्भर करता है की आपको कौन सी जगह पसंद आती है. पर्यटकों की कुछ चुनिन्दा जगहों की बात करें तो ये पर्यटक स्थल काफी मशहूर हैं दक्षिण भारत में.

There are many places in South India for holiday. It depends on you which place you like. Talking about a few selected places of tourists, these tourist places are quite famous in South India.

Munnar, Kerala

Ooty, Tamil Nadu

Idukki, Kerala

Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu

Coorg, Karnataka

Coonoor, Tamil Nadu

Yercaud, Tamil Nadu

मुन्नार, केरल

ऊटी, तमिलनाडु

इदुक्की, केरल

कोदैकनल, तमिलनाडु

कूर्ग, कर्नाटक

कुनूर, तमिलनाडु

येर्कौद, तमिलनाडु

1.5 हज़ार बार देखे गए · अपवोट देने वालों को देखें

Bharatpur:

At Rajasthan’s Keoladeo National Park, the Unesco world heritage site formerly known as Bharatpur bird sanctuary, tourists arrive from across the country and abroad to see hundreds of species of birds, including migratory ones, for which the protected forest is famous. These days, however, they are treated to the sight of stray cows and bulls, abandoned inside the forest by neighbouring villagers. Park authorities are now planning to raise the height of the boundary wall to 10 feet to prevent this incursion.


“It is shocking to see so many cows and bulls at a place which is touted as one of the best bird-watching sites in Asia. The government must do something to control this problem. People visit Keoladeo to watch birds in their natural habitat, not cattle,” said Anupama Bisht, a tourist who had come to the sanctuary with her friends.

Bird watchers and ecologists fear that the presence of a large number of stray cattle could drive away the migratory birds, which are a major attraction in the sanctuary.

Admitting that stray cattle have become a problem in the sanctuary, Bharatpur deputy conservator of forests (wildlife) Ajit Uchoi said, “I have submitted a project estimate of Rs 3 to 5 crore for raising the height of the park’s boundary wall. The current height of the boundary wall is 7 feet, but there are several places where it is very low because of the undulating landscape. These are the spots through which villagers bring the animals in. If the height is raised to 10 feet throughout, this problem will be solved.”

Three years before Unesco declared it a World Heritage Site in 1985, the Union government had banned grazing in the protected area. Uchoi said residents of nearby villages — Aghapur, Mala, Jatoli and Barso — usually bring cattle on trucks or tractor-trolleys late at night and let them loose inside the forest.

So far, forest officials have transported nearly 200 heads of cattle from the protected area to the ravines of Chambal, nearly 80-100 km away. It costs about Rs 100 to transport each cow.

“The presence of cattle in such large numbers can certainly disturb birds. In such a situation, the migratory birds will move away elsewhere. This could then affect the arrival of migratory birds in winters,” said ecologist, conservationist and Asian Waterbird Census (AWC) Delhi state coordinator TK Roy. The stray cattle also pose problems for hundreds of tourists, including foreigners, who visit the park every day. Around 1.5-2 lakh tourists come to the site every year.


The presence of such a large number of cows and bulls could drive away the migratory birds, fear ecologists. Officials are mulling raising the height of the boundary wall from the existing 7 feet to 10 feet

Hailed as a “marvel of India” by early European travellers, including Sir Thomas Roe, and described as an integral part of the country’s “national communication system” by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Sher Shah Suri’s kos minars, which once marked the way for thousands, are now themselves lost by the wayside.

The 30-foot-tall medieval milestones built at every kos (an ancient unit of distance equivalent to approx. 3 km) along the Grand Trunk Road in northern Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan today stand isolated, lost among villages, farm fields, slums, near railway tracks and even in zoos. Given protected status by ASI, these minars have down the centuries come to become heavily encroached upon and vandalised.


Abul Fazl records in “Ain-e-Akbari” — a detailed document on the administration under Mughal emperor Akbar — that there were around 600 minars during the Mughal period. Now only 110 remain in UP, Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and other places. Taking cognisance of the historical significance of these minars, restoration work on these was initiated last year, says ASI.

Two Englishmen, Richard Steel and John Crowther, who visited Punjab in April 1615 described kos minars in detail. So did Roe, ambassador of King James I at Jahangir’s court in Agra between 1615 and 1618.

Dharam Vir Sharma, former superintendent archaeologist of ASI in Agra, said, “In the third century BC, Mauryan emperor Ashoka initiated ancient routes originating from his capital city Pataliputra that extended up to Dhaka in the east and Kabul via Peshawar in the west and further to Balkh (Bactria, in central Asia). These routes had landmarks in the form of mud pillars, trees or even wells to guide commuters. During Ashokan period, a letter from Pataliputra (modern-day Patna) used to reach Kabul in maximum seven days.

“Later, Sher Shah Suri, and also the Mughals, restored the concept and erected kos minars on three major routes, which were called Sadak-e-Azam (later the Grand Trunk Road).”

Divay Gupta, principal director of Architectural Heritage division of INTACH, a private organisation working for the conservation and preservation of culture and heritage, said, “Urban expansion has destroyed most kos minars. Neither tourists and nor even locals are interested in it as most are not aware of their historical significance. Some of them are protected from encroachment and vandalism, but they have lost their context and stand isolated with little purpose or direction.”

A senior ASI official said, “Fortunately, courts have frequently come to the support of kos minars. Delhi high court recently ordered authorities to clear encroachments around the Mathura Road kos minar in Badarpur. Also, Rajasthan HC issued instructions to authorities to conserve the kos minar situated at Moti Doongri road in Jaipur.”

Ramesh Kumar Singh, assistant superintendent archaeologist of ASI in Agra, said, “Preservation and restoration work for nine kos minars was started in Mathura last year.”

55 yrs after grandad saved pilot, Chennai diver locates jet wreck

Chennai diver

For years, Chandru Devadass had been hearing the tale of how in 1964, his grandfather, a fisherman, rescued the pilot of an aircraft that had crashed into the waters near his village on East Coast Road in Chennai. On Sunday, Chandru, a fisherman-turned-scuba diver, discovered 40ft underwater what appears to be the wreck of an Indian Navy Hawker Sea Hawk fighter jet carried aboard INS Vikrant in the1960s, when it was stationed near Madras.


Retired Navy Commodore T Hari remembers reports of a single-seater Sea Hawk being taken for a joyride by a young maintenance crew member, who then crashed into the Bay of Bengal, somewhere off the East Coast Road. “It was a Sunday, and there weren’t supposed to be any fighter jets in the air. The pilot landed in the sea and was rescued by fishermen,” says Hari, who confirmed, on seeing videos of the wreckage, that from certain angles it looked like the “cockpit of a Sea Hawk”.

“We’ve been looking for this wreck since 2010 because we knew approximately where it was. I’ve been fascinated by this story. This weekend, the water was clear enough for us to find it,” says Chandru, who discovered it 1.5km off the shore near his village Periya Neelankarai Kuppam, along with divers S B Aravind, Arun, and Timoth of Temple Adventures. “We have notified authorities,” says Aravind.

Pune-based retired Vice-Admiral Vinod Pasricha writes of the incident in his book ‘Downwind Four Green’, published in 2010. “On the Sunday of August 12, 1964, the Sea Hawk was taken out without permission by Naval Aircraft Ordnance mechanic A S Gill. He had dreams of joining the air force, but was rejected,” says Pasricha, a former Sea Hawk pilot. Pasricha says that Gill, who knew how to fly, had intended to return the jet, IN 163, to Meenambakkam, but didn’t know how to operate the aircraft’s air brakes and flaps, and ended up heading towards the sea, inadvertently becoming the only Indian to have landed a Sea Hawk on the water. “He ejected from the cockpit when he realized he was going to land in the sea,” says Pasricha, who adds Gill was sentenced to two years of rigorous imprisonment and later left for Canada. The aircraft, he says, was never recovered.

“I was eight years old, when my father and his friends, while returning from a morning fishing expedition, brought ashore a young man in a uniform,” says Chandru’s father Devadass, now in his 60s. “They saw a small plane crash in the water and found the unconscious pilot floating near it,” says Devadass, who remembers his father was excited because the man gave them Rs10 each. The excitement didn’t last long, as Devadass said a helicopter and officers whisked the pilot away.


A PIECE OF HISTORY: Fisherman-turned-scuba diver Chandru spotted the wreck of the Sea Hawk fighter jet 1.5km off Chennai coast near Periya Neelankarai Kuppam on the ECR Road. A S Gill, a naval mechanic, had taken the aircraft out without permission and crashed it into the Bay of Bengal on August 12, 1964

Lonar has gullies and rivers like those of Mars, say members of Mars Society

Mumbaikars dreaming of setting foot on the Red Planet have a cause to celebrate: they need not get themselves strapped into a rocket and fly for eight or nine months to reach their dream destination. All they have to do is to proceed to Buldhana in Maharashtra and then head to a lake and crater called Lonar which is about 500km from Mumbai.


This was stated by Siddarth Pandey, an aerospace engineer, while talking to TOI on Saturday, after giving a presentation at Space Geeks, an organisation which focusses on astronomy and space.

Pandey, who has just become the head of the newly established astrobiology centre of Amity University near Mumbai, said that in a number of ways the environments of Lonar and Mars were similar. “I and my team members returned from Lonar last night and we are of the view that it could be a good Mars analog centre,” he said.

The other team members who were present at Saturday’s meeting held at a Khar pub were Jonathan Clarke of Mars Society, Australia; Jennifer Blank, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science; and Annalea Beattle, Mars Society, Australia.

Lonar was formed as a result of a meteorite impact which occurred between 35,000 and 50,000 years ago.

According to Pandey—also a member of Mars Society, Australia—Lonar could be utilised for training for Mars robotic missions and also possibly future manned flights to the Red Planet. “It is a natural lab for future Mars missions,” he said, while pointing out the craters of Lonar and Mars were alike in basalt rock.

He said that Lonar can yield useful data about the geology of Mars and the place can also be used for testing Mars rovers.

Jonathan Clarke said that Lonar has gullies and rivers similar to those of Mars. “Lonar gives an indication of what early Mars was like and it can help in future Mars exploration,” he said.