Interesting facts about Pakistan.

Interesting facts about Pakistan.

• Pakistan has the second largest Muslim population in the world. It is second to Indonesia.

•     More than 60 languages are spoken in Pakistan. English is the official language of Pakistan and is used in government.

•  96% of the population are Muslims. Remaining all the religious peoples are living in Pakistan.

 

• Pakistan has the sixth largest military force in the world.

 

• Pakistan have cold, dry winters and hot, wet summers.

• Despite once being called the world’s most dangerous country in a British magazine (The Economist), the tourism industry is growing in Pakistan.

• The official and national sport of Pakistan is field hockey. Cricket, however, is the most popular sport. The national side won the ICC World Cup in 1992.

• Pakistan qualified for the Golf World Cup for the first time in 2009.

•  The education in Pakistan is generally divided into five levels: primary (grades one through five); middle (grades six through eight); high (grades nine and ten, leading to the Secondary School Certificate or SSC); intermediate (grades eleven and twelve, leading to a Higher Secondary (School) Certificate or HSC); and university programs leading to graduate and advanced degrees.

 

• One goal of the current government is to see the literacy rate reach at least 85% over the next few years.

• About 1.7 million refugees from Afghanistan live in Pakistan.

• Pakistan became an Islamic republic in 1956.

• In 1971, there was a civil war in East Pakistan that led to the creation of Bangladesh.

First Mosque Designed by A Women

Istanbul, Turkey

Last week the Sakirin Mosque opened in Istanbul, Turkey. Its the first mosque in the country to have an interior designed by a woman, Zeynep Fadillioglu. An interior designer known for jet setting ways, she nonetheless won a commission to redesign the religious structure in Istanbul. She even recruited women to help in the construction. Begun last year, the project was just recently completed. It's a fairly impressive building, subtly blending modern techniques and materials into what might be the world's most conservative design vernacular.

Admittedly, I have not been inside a lot of mosques and don’t know much about how light and open space is supposed to work in them, traditionally. I just know that this has a crazy gorgeous interior, with a lovely soaring, open feel to it. It’s got lots of gold in the color scheme, but it manages to be tasteful and elegant, instead of looking like Trump Mosque. The unfinished wood accents contrast nicely. And I love how the “dripping chandelier” catches and magnifies natural light. I want that thing in my house!

Riots in Honduras

Earlier this year, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, losing popularity, decided to hold a referendum as a first step towards changing the existing constitution. However, opposition members opposed the decision, fully preventing the holding of a referendum. What this has led? Of course, to civil strife. President expelled from the country, sending a plane in a pajamas. Now, supporters and opponents of the old regime came to the barricades. It seems that Cuba is facing the beginning of civil war. I hope nevertheless that it will not, and could be resolved peacefully.

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