Pakistán

Más allá de la capital, las principales ciudades son Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad — cada una un centro de cultura regional, economía e historia. Islamabad was carved out of the Pothohar Plateau in the 1960s to replace Karachi as capital, designed by Greek firm Doxiadis Associates on a modular grid, and the Faisal Mosque — paid for by Saudi Arabia and completed in 1986 — holds 100,000 worshippers beneath a tent-shaped shell that became the country's most recognisable silhouette.

Los principales idiomas hablados son urdu, inglés, que reflejan el patrimonio cultural del país y abren puertas a una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, Pakistán se contacta mediante el código +92. Hospitality in Pakistan carries the weight of obligation — the Pashtun code of Pashtunwali demands that even a stranger requesting refuge must be protected and fed, a tradition that extends in softened form across most of the country's regional cultures.

Pakistán comparte sus fronteras con Irán, India, Afganistán, China. El tráfico rodado circula por la izquierda, en consonancia con la convención de

La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC+05:00, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.

Pakistan's 1992 Cricket World Cup victory under Imran Khan, won with a squad that had lost early matches and nearly been eliminated, produced a redemption narrative that Khan later translated directly into a political career, making cricket and national identity inseparable.

The Karakoram range contains five of the world's seventeen peaks above 8,000 metres, including K2, whose near-vertical faces and lethal weather make it statistically more dangerous to summit than Everest — a landscape so extreme it has no permanent human habitation above its base camps.