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Islamabad flights summary:

Islamabad is one of the few cities in Pakistan to have competing flights from British Airways as well as from national carrier Pakistan International Airways. Recently announced flights from Glasgow to Islamabad complement existing regional flights from Manchester and Birmingham.

Islamabad in a nutshell:

Islamabad is the administrative capital of Pakistan. Situated in
the northeast of the country, Islamabad has seen phenomenal growth during the
last half-century from being a mere dot on a planner’s notepaper in the
late 1950's to a thriving metropolis.

Mini Guide to Islamabad

The capital of Pakistan is actually one of the country’s newest cities, having only been completed in 1961. After a slow start (the government didn’t fully move in until the mid-1980s), Islamabad has had to expand to meet the needs of a growing population, its greener areas - such as the Shakar Parian and Margalla Hills at the city’s flanks - coming under the threat of yet more concrete and construction projects. The city is divided into eight separate zones, each given a letter-number reference (A1, B4, E7 and so on up to the letter H). Negotiating Islamabad can sometimes seem like finding one’s way around a giant multi-storey car park.

One of Islamabad’s most striking buildings is the huge modernist Shah Faisal Mosque, and just west of the city lies Taxila, a fabled centre of pilgrimage (it dates back to 500BC) that serves as a Buddhist and Sikh shrine. But Islamabad has also become a major education and business centre over the last few decades. The city is home to the youthful students of Quaid-e-Azam University, the towering opulence of the Saudi-Pak Tower, and the set-to-be-magnificent Centaurus complex, still under construction at the time of writing.

Islamabad Flight News

BA suspends Pakistan flights following Islamabad bomb blast - 22/09/2008
New Islamabad flights from Leeds Bradford - 14/06/2008
New flights from Glasgow to Pakistan - 17/10/2005

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