CHINAS NEW RAIL SYSTEM ! Unbelievable! ...


China's new rail system sure makes Canada 's rail system look pretty obsolete,but in China they have the population numbers to support the huge expense.

Does anyone still doubt that China is heading towards becoming a Mega super power

in a decade or two?  No doubt at all.

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Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail. Beijing departure station

The train speed is 350 km/hr

The crew to board the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed train.

The crew staff are preparing food.

The trains have 1st class, business and VIP cars, as well as economy class of course.
There are also dedicated disabled areas, wheelchair accessible bathrooms and corridors.


HOW DID THEY DO THIS?

THEY COPIED THE US IDEAS OF THE 40 & 50'S AND COMBINED THEM WITH TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY.

 

 

What do you think ?

Made in China with our money from all our "Made in China " purchases?

 



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Pakistan History PICS, VERY UNIQUE

 

Some v.nice pics.......

There was a time when our President could give a little slap on the face of the US President......

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How a President of Pakistan was received in Washington in 1961 ....

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John F Kennedy, Ayub Khan and Lyndon B Johnson...

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Ayub Khan rides through Karachi streets with Jackie in 1961...

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Jackie Kennedy on a camel ride in Karachi with her sister Lee Radziville..

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Two Sardars - Different Destinies, Sherbaz Mazari with Akber Bugti, 1954 ....

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First Eidul Fitr after Independence, August 1947 ....

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Despite a warning from a British CID of a plot to assassinate Jinnah during this ride, the program proceeded on schedule. Mountbatten joined Jinnah on this ride from Victoria Road till Government House. The ride was most tense when passing through a Hindu neighbourhood which had little to rejoice and where the plotters were supposed to act. On reaching Government House, Jinnah kept his hand on Mountbatten's thigh and remarked, 'Thank God I brought you back alive'. 'I brought you back alive' retorted Mountbatten. Later on it was learnt that one of the conspirators lost his nerve at the crucial time. Did someone say Advani?

The Founder examines the first set of coins in Pakistan...

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A PIA advertisement from the fifties raises a gender issue....

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Benazir Bhutto in 1971seen here in the lawn of 70 Clifton Karachi, a few months before her father took over the reins of government in Pakistan

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The Founder supervises party funds to the paisa...

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The Founder's pre-partition passport describing him as a Barrister from Bombay...

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Sheikh Mujib ur Rehman and G M Syed...

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Ambasssador Agha Hilaly receives Henry Kissinger at Chaklala Airport....On 8 July 1971. His secret destination was Peking. 

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King Hussein of Jordan came for a shoot in Sindh... This 1954 shot taken in Tando Muhammad Khan near Hyderabad in Sindh shows Iskander mirza, Muhammed Ali Bogra, H I Rahimtoola, M A Khuhro, Pir Ali Muhammad Rashdi and other notables

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Yahya Khan hands over all power to Z A Bhutto... The master of ceremonies here is Cabinet Secretary Ghulam Ishaq Khan, who himself became president in 1988. Irked by a rumour that Ishaq wanted Bhutto to take over as President but not CMLA, one of Bhutto's first orders were to sack S U Durrani as governor state bank and send Ishaq in his place in far off Karachi.

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President Chaudhry and Prime Minister Bhutto receiving King Faisal...

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Justice Munir deals a death blow to Pakistan's judiciary... When Governor General Ghulam Muhammed dismissed the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan in 1954, the Sindh Chief Court declared his action ultra vires of the constitution. However under a lure of Deputy governor General ship offered to Justice Munir he validated the order under the Doctrine of Necessity and dealth a death blow to the judiciary. Subsequently sodomy cases were filed against the honourable judges of the Sindh Chief Court except Cornelius, who ruled against the Governor General. 

Shameful indeed. One of the judges sent off his son to London for studies. He became Dean and Rector of the Aga Khan University. And imagine that was 53 years ago and people took it lying down. Why is everyone so worked up now. Where was our nation's collective conscience in 1954.

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Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan with Walt Disney in Washington DC. This candid 1950 picture shows the wife of Pakistan's first Prime minister on a state visit to USA. A year later her husband was shot dead in broad daylight in Rawalpindi.....

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Edwina Mountbatten's 'friendly' relationship with the Prime Minister of India...

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All the President's Men - at Shakarparian hills after laying the Foundation stone of Islamabad...

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Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan (1882 - 1958) popularly known as Dr Khan Sahib was a pioneer in the Indian Independence Movement and a Pakistani politician. He belongs to Charsadda. He was eight years older than his brother, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Badshah Khan). In 1935, Dr. Khan Sahib was elected as the NWFP's sole representative to the Central Legislative Assembly in New Delhi. In Pakistan, he joined the Central Cabinet of Muhammad Ali Bogra as Minister for Communications in 1954. In October 1955, he became the first Chief Minister of West Pakistan following the amalgamation of the provinces and princely states under the One Unit scheme. After differences with the ruling Muslim League over the issue of Joint versus Separate Electorates, he created the Republican Party. He resigned in March 1957 after the provincial budget was rejected by the assembly. In June, he was elected to the National Assembly representing the constituency of Quetta, the former capital of Balochistan. He was assassinated by a former revenue official in Lahore on May 12, 1958. After his death, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti was elected to fill the "vacancy" arising in the National Assembly....

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Bahadur Shah Zafar, 1775–1862, last Mughal emperor of India (1837–57) exiled in Rangoon, 1858. This is perhaps the only photograph of a Mughal emperor ever taken.

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AND then this! The instrument of surrender was signed at Ramna Race Course in Dacca at 16.31 IST on December 16, 1971, by Jagjit Singh Aurora, Commander-in-chief of Indian forces in the Bangladesh, and General Niazi, Commandar of Pakistani forces in Bangladesh. Lieutenant-General Jagjit Singh Aurora accepted the surrender of Pakistani forces led by General Niazi.

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THE BEAUTIES OF PAKISTAN

Little known facts about Pakistan ........................... please share & enjoy.
 
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"Astola Island" [near Pasni Baluchistan 40 km from shore]. Astola is Pakistan's largest offshore island and the only significant offshore
 island in the northern Arabian Sea.
 
 
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"Arror Rock" 
[near Rohri in Sindh]
The shape of rock was caused by unknown natural forces.
There is also a Shrine on the top.
 
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This is an amazing view of a tunnel and bridge over a river on the railway track from "Rohri to Quetta".

This track passes through 20 tunnels and over 368 bridges.
It's the longest Railway gradient of world, and most scenic Railway ride of Asia.

 
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Headmarala , Sialkot
Mountains of Jammu & Kashmir in the background.
 
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Attabad Lake also known as Hunza Lake is a lake in the Hunza Valley of northern Pakistan.

The beautiful lake was formed due to a massive landslide at Attabad village in Gilgit-Baltistan, 9 miles (14 km) upstream (east)

of Karimabad that occurred on January 4, 2010.
 
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Is this Great Wall of China?

No. It's Wall of Sindh in Ranikot [3 hrs drive from Karachi].
It's the part of one of the Largest Fort in World, Fort of Ranikot.

 
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Kalam Valley.
It is a valley along the upper reaches of the Swat River in Swat, Pakistan.
Kalam Valley is known for its waterfalls, lakes and lush green hills, and is a 270 km drive from Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan.
 
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Kachura Lake.
The Kachura Lakes are two lakes in the Skardu District of Gilgit-Baltistan, Northern Pakistan. The lakes, at 2,500 metres (8,200 ft)
 in elevation, are Upper Kachura Lake and Lower Kachura Lake.
 
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This is a 'Mud Volcano'.

In Pakistan there are more than 80 active mud volcanoes, all of them in Baluchistan province; there are about 10 locations

having clusters of mud volcanoes. In this region, the heights of mud volcanoes range between 800 to 1,550 feet
(243.8 to 472.4 m). The most famous is Chandaragup.
 
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The Great Trango Tower, 6,286 m (20,608 ft).
The east face of the Great Trango Tower features the world's greatest nearly vertical drop. [aka Tallest vertical mountain of world]
Located in Gilgit-Baltistan Region of Pakistan. This is one of the most difficult mountains to climb.
 
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Laila Peak, Hushe, Karakoram Range, Pakistan. 
It has a distinctive spear-like shape. One of the most beautiful & scenic snow covered mountain of the world.
The Laila peak has been climbed only twice.
 
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This is not Fox and Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand.
This is Biafo Glacier - which is a 63 km long glacier in the Karakoram Mountains, Pakistan meets the 49 km long Hispar Glacier
at an altitude of 5,128 m (16,824 feet) at Hispar La (Pass) to create the world's longest glacial system outside the polar regions.
 
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Makran, Pakistan.
The present day Makran derived its name from Maka, a satrap of Achaemenid Empire. Maka was an important early eastern satrapy of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire.
 
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K2.
It is the second-highest mountain on Earth, only after Mount Everest. It has a peak elevation of 8,611 m [28,251 feet]!!!
 
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Concordia Base Camp, Pakistan.
This is the view from Concordia towards the valley of the Baltoro Glacier at dawn. On the left [Paiju peaks], middle ,[Trango towers] & on the right [Grand Cathedra].
 
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The epic Lake Saiful Muluk.
It is located at the northern end of the Kaghan Valley (34°52′37.34″N 73°41′37.71″E) near Naran, Pakistan.
The clarity of the water comes from the multiple glaciers all around the high basin which feed the lake.
 
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Village Halmet, Neelum Valley, Pakistan.
Neelum Valley is definitely another hidden pearl of Pakistan. No other valley in Kashmir can compare this valley and even
most of the Pakistanis know little about it and have little visited there.
 
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Lansdowne Bridge of Rohri, Pakistan.
A marvel of nineteenth century engineering, the 'longest "rigid" girder bridge in the world' at that time, was begun in 1887.
Designed by Sir Alexander Meadows Rendel, the girder work weighing a massive 3,300 tons was erected by F.E. Robertson, and Hecquet.
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Is this Grand Canyon or Texas?
No. It's Hingol National Park of Baluchistan, Pakistan. It got Mysterious Mud mountains, beautiful blue water Hingol river,
desert and deep blue Arabian sea. [3.5 hrs drive from Karachi on Makran coastal highway]
 
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Cold Desert of Skardu in Pakistan.
This is one of the most beautiful tourists attraction of Northern areas of Pakistan. There are huge sand plains in Skardu.
 
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Passu Peaks, Hunza, Pakistan.
Mysterious mountains stand like a wall between Hunza river and valley.
 
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Uli Biaho Tower, Pakistan. 
It is a peak near Trango Towers and Baltoro Glacier in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. It consists of two main peaks,
Uli Biaho Tower (listed by Roskelley as 19,957 feet, and by Kopold as 6109 m (20,058 feet)); and
Uli Biaho Peak (Kopold: 6417 m), which as of 2006 was unclimbed.
 
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Rakaposhi, Pakistan. 
Rakaposhi is also known as Dumani [Mother of Mist]. It is situated in the Nagar valley.
 
 
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Nanga Parbat.
It is the ninth highest mountain on Earth and among the eight-thousanders with a summit elevation of 8,126 meters (26,660 ft).
It is also an immense, dramatic peak that rises far above its surrounding terrain.
 
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Karamber Lake.
Karambar Pass marks the boundary between the Chitral and Ishkoman Districts of Pakistan. The Karmabar Lake is almost 3 km long
 approx and it is 4300 meters above sea level. The flowers of autumns are worth seeing on this lake.
 
 
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Deosaid plains ï¿½ Skardu
 
 
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Bara Pani ï¿½ Deosai
 
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Dudiptsar Lake or Dudipat Lake is a lake encircled by snow clad peaks in Lulusar-Dudipatsar National Park.
The lake lies in the extreme north of the Kaghan Valley

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Interesting Facts about Libya during Gaddafi's time


 
READ EVRYTHING B4 u CRITISE THE POST........

Libya and Libyan "dictator" Muamma...
r Gaddafi:

1. There is no electricity bill in... Libya; electricity is free
for all its citizens.

2. There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are
state-owned and loans given
to all its citizens at 0% interest by law.

3. Home considered a human right in Libya –
Gaddafi vowed that his parents
would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a
home. Gaddafi’s father has
died while him, his wife and his mother are still living
in a tent.

4. All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 Dinar (US$
50,000 ) by the government
to buy their first apartment so to help start up the
family.

5. Education and medical treatments are free in
Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25%
of Libyans are literate. Today the figure is 83%.

6. Should Libyans want to take up farming career,
they would receive farming
land, a farming house, equipments, seeds and
livestock to kick- start their farms
– all for free.

7. If Libyans cannot find the education or medical
facilities they need in Libya,
the government funds them to go abroad for it –
not only free but they get US
$2, 300/mth accommodation and car allowance.

8. In Libyan, if a Libyan buys a car, the government
subsidized 50% of the price.

9. The price of petrol in Libya is $0. 14 per liter.

10. Libya has no external debt and its reserves
amount to $150 billion – now
frozen globally.

11. If a Libyan is unable to get employment after
graduation the state would
pay the average salary of the profession as if he or
she is employed until
employment is found.

12. A portion of Libyan oil sale is, credited directly to
the bank accounts of all
Libyan citizens.

13. A mother who gave birth to a child receive US
$5 ,000

14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $ 0.15

15. 25% of Libyans have a university degree

16. Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation
project, known as the Great
Man-Made River project, to make water readily
available throughout the desert
country.

AND EVERYONE THOUGHT GADAFFI WAS BAD?????

 
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