Islamic Republic of Pakistan a South Asian country located in the mountainous region adjoining Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre (650 mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, the Republic of India in the east and the People's Republic of China in the far northeast. Tajikistan also lies adjacent to Pakistan but is separated by the narrow Wakhan Corridor. In recent times, Pakistan has been called part of the New Middle East.

Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world and is the second most populous Muslim country… continue on reading

Jundallah (Soldiers of Allah) (Arabic: جندالله‎) (also known as Iranian People's Resistance Movement) is an insurgent Sunni Islamic organization based in Balochistan that claims to be fighting for the rights of Sunni Muslims in Iran. It is believed to have 1,000 fighters and claims to have killed 400 Iranian soldiers and many more civilians. It is being propagated as part of the Baloch insurgency in Pakistan and in Iran's Sistan and Baluchistan Province. The group started under the name of Jundallah and later renamed itself as People's Resistance Movement of Iran. The group has been identified as a terrorist organization by Iran and Pakistan and has been behind numerous acts of terror, kidnapping and smuggling narcotics and many believe it is linked to Al-Qaeda. It is also believed to receive support from the US government. The group has also been abducting foreign tourists for ransom. Having been promoted as "Baloch" insurgency many Baloch living in US and Europe also provide funds to the organization. The other main source of income is the Afghan Drug Trade.

United States backing Jundallah
ABC news reported in April 2007, citing US and Pakistani intelligence sources, that the terrorist group "has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials" to destabilize the government in Iran. According to this report by Brian Ross and Christopher Isham of ABC News, the United States government had been secretly encouraging and advising the Jundullah in its attacks against Iranian targets. This support is said to have started in 2005 and arranged so that the United States provided no direct funding to the group, which would require congressional oversight and attract media attention. The report was denied by Pakistan official sources. But despite their denial ABC stood by their claim. Alexis Debat, one of the sources quoted by Ross and Isham in in their report alleging US support for the Jundullah, resigned from ABC News in June 2007, after ABC officials claimed that he faked several interviews while working for the company.

Brian Ross, an award winning journalist and the correspondent who worked most closely with Mr. Debat, said the Jundullah story had many sources. “We’re only worried about the things Debat supplied, not about the substance of that story,” he said in regard to the Jundullah report. So far, ABC has found nothing that would undermine the stories Mr. Debat worked on, Mr. Ross said last night. But he acknowledged that as the stories of fabrications continue to roll in, the network “at some point has to question whether anything he said can be believed.” This caused the netword in 2007 to send a second team of producers to Pakistan investigating the original reports. ABC never retracted the story.

Fars News Agency, an Iranian state run news agency, reported that the United States government is involved in PRMI's terrorists acts.

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• Iran blames US backed Jundallah in its deadliest bomb blast in the mosque in Zahedan (Sistan Baluchestan Province). In April the government had arrested a group of Israeli agents who were planning bombings. This is in continuation to the bomb attack in Zahedan in early 2007 which killed 18 Revolutionary Guards was claimed by Jundullah…
• Russia prepares for war in Arctic over its oil and gas reserves according to the country's new national security strategy approved by Russian Security Council on 13 May 2009… (continue reading)
• India is moving forward on a military logistics deal with the United States that would help U.S. operations in the region. The Logistics Support Agreement (LSA), on hold for more than two years, will allow refuelling, maintenance and servicing of military ships and planes from both countries at each other's ports and bases.
• Top leadership of the Pakistan People's Party has received a threatening letter from banned Jihadi outfits, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and al-Qaeda, in which they said a death squad has been sent to eliminate them
• A French “tourist” has been kidnapped in southern Pakistan.
• Members of U.S. Congress have been told that Pakistan is rapidly adding to its nuclear arsenal, raising questions on Capitol Hill about whether billions of dollars in proposed military aid might be diverted to Pakistan's nuclear program.
• India faces a greater threat from China than Pakistan because New Delhi knows little about Beijing’s combat capabilities, India’s air force chief told a newspaper in an interview. The two countries nations fought a brief but brutal war over their 3,500 km Himalayan border in 1962, and both sides claim the other is occupying big but largely uninhabited area.

Rohtas Fort (Urdu: قلعہ روہتاس Qila Rohtas) is a garrison fort built by the great Afghan king Sher Shah Suri. This fort is about 4 km in circumference and the first example of the successful amalgamation of Pukhtun and Hindu architecture in the sub-continent. Sher Shah constructed Qila Rohtas to block Emperor Humayun's return to India after defeating him in the Battle of Kanauj. This fort lies on the old GT road between the North (Afghanistan) to the Plains of Punjab. It blocked the way from Peshawar to Lahore. The other reason was to suppress the local tribes of this region Potohar called Gakhars who were allies of Humayun and refused their allegiance to Sher Shah Suri. The Gakhars made a feeble retort by building some fortifications near the village of Sultanpur, which still remain today.

Nanga Parbat is the ninth highest mountain on Earth. Known as the "Killer Mountain," Nanga Parbat was one of the deadliest of the eight-thousanders for climbers in the first half of the twentieth century; since that time it has been less so, though still an extremely serious climb. It is also an immense, dramatic peak that rises far above its surrounding terrain.

Nanga Parbat

The Faisal Mosque in Islamabad is the largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fourth largest mosque in the world. It was the largest mosque in the world from 1986 to 1993 when overtaken in size by the completion of the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco. Subsequent expansions of the Masjid al Haram (Grand Mosque) of Mecca and the Masjid al Nabawi (Prophet's Mosque) in Medina, Saudi Arabia during the 1990s relegated Faisal Mosque to fourth place in terms of size.

Faisal Mosque