Pearl Continental Hotel (Bhurban)

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Located at the foothills of the magnificent Himalayas at an elevation of over 2000 m, Pearl Continental Hotel Bhurbun offers a unique experience of defining reunion with Nature. 

Affectionately known as the Paradise on Earth, the Kashmir Valley is blessed with picture post-card perfection and attracts a cosmopolitan crowd soaking all that it has to offer. 

Intrinsic beauty, world class adventure sports and personalized luxury make it the most agreeable proposition.

SOFT OPENING OF CENTAURUS MALL

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The Centaurus Mall is an iconic retail, entertainment, and lifestyle destination that stimulates visitors with its vibrant mix of retail and entertainment segments. This is Pakistan's most successful destination for shopping and family entertainment. 

The combination of the stunning architecture, the size, quality of shopping, leisure, and convenience will drive this mall to a commercial success and revolutionize modern shopping experience. The Centaurus Mall is a 'must visit' lifestyle destination for all. The mall offers a delightful array of beguiling attractions for every visitor all year around. Be it shopping, entertainment, dining, or fun-filled outings with family or friends, The Centaurus Mall is the place to be.

 The Centaurus Mall is ideally located in the heart of Islamabad, which makes it easily accessible from all aspects. This world class Shopping Mall, comparable to any international Mega Mall, is developed on the basis of One Stop Shop” concept. The mall serves as the primary shopping destination for the entire twin cities and beyond.

• Five floors of ultimate shopping experience
• Idyllic tenant mix
• Centrally Air Conditioned.
• Mall Floor segmentation with Atriums (Supermarket, Fashion and Apparel, Home Furnishing, Consumer Electronics, Accessories, Gold Souk, Designer and Wedding lounge, Food Courts and Fine Dining, 5 Screen Cineplex, Leisure, Family Entertainment and much more).

BASANT FESTIVAL

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With the advent of spring Basant Festival is celebrated with pomp and show in mid February every year in different cities of Pakistan. In other words this is the spring festival.

People traditionally fly kites on the roofs of their buildings. It is commonly observed that rest houses, hotels and house of relatives of the participants are fully packed with guests from all over the country. 

Moreover some five star hotels also arrange this function on their roof top for foreigners and other high class gentry. They also arrange variety of dishes with musical concert.

RANGOLI (KARACHI)

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Rangoli is an attractively planned old-fashioned theme buffet restaurant with a total seating area of up to 550 people. 

Separate seating areas include a main dining room, an outdoor seating area and a casual low seating area. Rangoli's lavish buffet area offers many Pakistani dishes such as Paya, and international dishes such as fried prawns and Chinese.

 The open-air "bazaar area" offers specialties such as sajji chicken, batair, a shawarma station, Ouzi - a whole roasted lamb carving station and a made-to-order pasta station.

 All types of fresh salads are offered, as well as a dessert area featuring chocolate mouse and blueberry cheesecake and many other such scrumptious and appetizing delicacies.

BADSHAHI MASJID (LAHORE)

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The Badshahi Masjid (Urdu: بادشاھی مسجد), or the 'Emperor's Masjid', was built in 1673 by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in Lahore, Pakistan. It is one of the city's best known landmarks, and a major tourist attraction epitomising the beauty and grandeur of the Mughal era. Badshahi Masjid was badly damaged and was misused during Sikh Rule. 

During the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the masjid was used as a stable for the army's horses.They also would steal the jewels from the masjid, such as marble, rubies, gold, and other valuables. Muslims were not allowed to enter the masjid to worship; they were only given a small place outside the masjid where they could worship. Even when the British took control of India, they would use the masjid for their military practices by using the masjid for gun practices, cannons, etc. 

Even when they sensed Muslim hate for the British, they demolished a large portion of the wall of the masjid so the Muslims could not use it as a kind of "fort" for anti-British reasons. After a while, they finally returned it to the Muslims as a good will gesture even though it was in terrible condition. It was then given to Badshahi Masjid Authority to restore it to its original glory.

Potohari Arts & Crafts Village (ISLAMABAD)

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Arts & Crafts Village is a landmark project by Capital Development Authority launched in February 2012 and located adjacent to Rose & Jasmine Garden, Shakarparian Islamabad.

The culture centre has been constructed with the view to promote the indigenous arts and handicrafts and to enhance the inter-provincial harmony. According to Capital Development Authority the exhibitions at this cultural Centre would promote the soft image of the country as the foreign diplomats and other delegates would be visiting such exhibitions in the federal capital.  

Arts & Crafts Village is equipped with exhibition hall, clusters of shops, studios for the artists, tea shops, show rooms, folk theatre and hostel for the visiting artisans.

ANKARA PARK (ISLAMABAD)

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Ankara Park is situated in Islamabad adjacent to Rawal Lake near Club Road. Park covers area of over 23 acres. 

Quaid-e-Azam Mausoleum (KARACHI)

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Quaid-e-Azam Mausoleum is the final resting place and mausoleum of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan. It is located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

Quaid-e-Azam Mausoleum is a famous landmark of Karachi. The mausoleum is placed in a 53 hectare park and the size of building is 75x75m on ground and 43m high, built on an 4m high platform. In each wall is placedan entrance. 15 successive fountains lead to the platform from one side and from all sides terraced avenues lead to the gates.

It was built between 1960 and 1970 by the Pakistani architect Yahya C. Merchant.

PAKISTAN AIR FORCE MUSEUM (KARACHI)

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PAF Museum, Karachi is an Air Force museum and park situated between PAF Base Faisal and Awami Markaz on main Shahra-e-Faisal at Karachi, Pakistan.

The museum is open throughout the year for seven days a week. Pakistan Air Force Museum is known for its well organized displays, rides and greenery. The main museum is located inside the park and features all major fighter aircraft that have been used by the Pakistan Air Force are on display. The museum houses the aircraft used by Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan.

Many aircraft are also on display outside in the park and some in the hangar as well, along with photo and weapon galleries. There is also a souvenir shop where miniature jet models, key chains, shirts and other Air Force related merchandise is available. A mosque and restaurant also cater the park.

Maritime Museum (KARACHI)

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Pakistan Maritime Museum is a naval museum and park located in naval estate at Habib Ebrahim Rehmatoola Road, in Karachi, Pakistan.

The main museum building is located inside the park. It comprises six galleries and an auditorium. The museum is based on modern concepts of presentation and interactive education. Different artifacts of maritime and naval heritage have been incorporated through attractive dioramas, relief sculpture, murals and miniature paintings, touch screen computers, taxidermy and ancient weapons. A computer based maritime information retrieval system has also been incorporated to facilitate the visitors and students for easy access.

Pakistan Maritime Museum is known for its well-organized displays, rides and greenery. The museum is open throughout the year for seven days a week. 

ARENA (KARACHI)

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Arena family entertainment center, a project of Millennium Entertainment (Pvt.) Ltd. is not just a run of the mill amusement facility, but one of its kind and pioneer in the field of refined and sophisticated family entertainment and recreation. 

                                       

The environment and the ambiance of Arena is the envy of many catering to the needs and feeding the entertainment appetite of the vast population of Karachi. Situated in the heart of the city at main Karsaz, Arena is easily accessible from all parts of the city and supplies a large monitored and secure parking lot for the convenience of its customers. Arena also features the Power House Gymnasium, with a complete range of state-of-the-art imported exercise machines and The Jade Hall, the biggest covered pillar-less hall in Pakistan.

In order to deliver fun and entertainment for people of all ages, a combination of nine different recreational activities, food outlets and mocktail/dessert bar have been created within the Arena recreation center, many of them having been introduced for the first time in the country.