Pakistan in pictures


From farmers working in field to Karachi's fish harbour, a look at the happenings around Pakistan.

Farmers ride a tractor sitting on the loaded hay stack on a road to the town of Khewra some 200 kms south of capital Islamabad. Pakistan's battered economy is showing some signs of improvement with GDP growth expected to rise, a state bank report said in mid-January 2010.

Tourists visit the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore. Construction of the Badshahi Mosque was ordered in May 1671 by the sixth Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb, who assumed the title 'Alamgir', meaning 'Conqueror of the World.

A bride smiles as she sits with fellow brides at a mass wedding ceremony in Karachi. A Pakistani local Women Development Foundation organised a mass marriage ceremony to help parents share the costs of the ceremony as some 160 couples married in Karachi. Increasing poverty has made it too difficult for the country's low-income group to get their children married because of the custom of unaffordable dowry.

A Pakistani bride smiles at a fellow bride at a mass wedding ceremony in Karachi.

An ethnic Pashtun girl takes a milk jar outside her makeshift house in the town of Khewra some 200 kms south of the capital Islamabad.

Men load up wood panels for a newly constructed cargo boat in Karachi's Fish Harbour .

A man who works as a shoe cleaner, looks on while sitting on the roadside waiting for customers, at the old city of Rawalpindi.

Supporters of Pakistan Peoples Party burn tires during a rally to show their support with President Asif Ali Zardari in Lahore. Pakistan's prime minister sought to defuse tension Sunday over a Supreme Court decision to strike down a presidential order appointing two top judges, saying the dispute would not threaten political stability.

A Pakistani woman, sells balloons on Valentine's day, holding her daughter while waiting for customers in Islamabad.

A man drives a cart along the main street of the old city of Rawalpindi.

Men talk while standing by a grocery store, on the outskirts of Islamabad.

A man holds a cart as he rides on the back of a motorcycle with two other men in the town of Khewra some, 200 kms south of the capital Islamabad.

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