Pakistan Attractions

Changes all around.

Advantages: Ideal setting for most.
Disadvantages: Much smaller that it should be.

After an eight hour journey to Pakistan i was expecting to see the same old dirty under maintenance airport i last visited in 1997.But i was supervised to see that the airport is slowly but shortly improving then my last visit. When i visited in 1997 the airport was over crowded tacky with dirt all over the place. You couldn’t tell where people are coming from or where they are going.Facilites were in very poor condition. I must admit it was my first ...
...impressed at all. The dirt and over crowding of people really put me of future visits. But now that the improvements that they are making to it is helping the airport. I revisited the airport last year and its improving. Money is being spent on making the airport bigger and looking better. It isn’t the biggest airport in Pakistan but it is in the capital city Islamabad. This makes travel a lot easier for a lot of people. But i think it still needs ...

mehnaz 16.12.2002 · Read full review
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Review of Islamabad International Airport, Pakistan (ISB)

The beauty of Pakistan

Advantages: High Tech and Modern Mosque in this space age
Disadvantages: Very less people know about it

...the memories of late King Shah Faisal of Saudi Arabia. The architecture of the mosque is very unique (designed by a turkish architecture, who won it against other 43 proposals), having an area of about 5000 square meters (which can hold approximately 8000 people at atime for the prayers) and still does not have any pillars to support its structure. The design of the mosque is such that all the weight distribution is on the walls, and not in the centre ...
...this mosque one of unique entities, and makes it worh seeing. After marriage I went along with my wife to this mosque and took pictures, which are magnificient and still remind us of our golden days in the background of this magnificient mosque. The interior of the mosque is decorated by the famous Pskistani artist Sadqain. It is no doubt the focal point and icon of the Islamabad in particular and of Pakistan in general. It is worth seeinng and highly ...

uffi70 29.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Shah Faisal Mosque, Islamabad

Fairly a good Airport.

Advantages: Fairly a good one
Disadvantages: Not capable to handle a large departures and arrivals

Islamabad international airport is not one of the great airport of the world. But it has a good capability to handle incoming and outgoing passangers. it has a larg waiting lounges, restaurants and other shops to purchases gifts and toys to gift your relatives and children. Islamabad airport is migrating from its present place to another place and when the new airport starts functioning it will be one of the best airports of the south asia. But write ...

sahara 27.08.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Islamabad International Airport, Pakistan (ISB)