Friday, March 21, 2014

From the Switzerland of Pakistan: Kalam Swat


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Swat is a valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Kalam is a village along the upper reaches of the Swat River in the Swat Valley.

Swat was a princely state in the North West Frontier Province until it was dissolved in 1969. It's natural beauty of high mountains, green meadows and clear lakes has earned Swat a reputation as "the Switzerland of Pakistan.”
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(left) 75th death anniversary of Allama Muhammad Iqbal (1877 – 1938) was a philosopher, poet and politician in British India who is widely regarded as having inspired the Pakistan Movement. 

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