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  2. International Organization for Migration - Wikipedia

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    While the IOM's history tracks the man-made and natural disasters of the past half century, including Kosovo and Timor 1999, and the Asian tsunami, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Pakistan earthquake of 2004/2005, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and the European migrant crisis—its credo that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and ...

  3. Allama Iqbal International Airport - Wikipedia

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    It serves Lahore, capital of Punjab and second-largest city of Pakistan. It also serves a large portion of the travellers from the other regions of Punjab province . Originally known as Lahore International Airport, it was renamed after the visionary poet and philosopher Dr. Allama Iqbal , one of the pioneers that led to the creation of Pakistan .

  4. Afghan migration to Pakistan dates back to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, which led to over three million Afghans seeking refuge in Pakistan. [10] Significant waves of Afghan refugees also came to Pakistan after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and in 2021 when the Taliban returned to power following the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. [11]

  5. List of airports in Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    talk. edit. Pakistan has a total of 152 airports, with three major airports located in Karachi, Islamabad, and Lahore. Additionally, there are six medium airports situated in Peshawar, Multan, Sialkot, Faisalabad, Quetta, and Sukkur, with the remaining airports classified as smaller airports. Civil airports in Pakistan are operated by the ...

  6. History of Lahore - Wikipedia

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    History of Lahore. The recorded history of Lahore (Punjabi: لہور دی تریخ (Shahmukhi), ਲਹੌਰ ਦਾ ਇਤਹਾਸ (Gurmukhi); romanized: Làhaur dī tàrīk͟h) refers to the past history of the city of Lahore, the post-medieval cultural and political hub of the Punjab region. Today, the city is the capital of the Pakistani ...

  7. Anoosh Masood Chaudhry - Wikipedia

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    Anoosh Masood Chaudhry (Urdu: انوش مسعود چوہدری) is a Pakistani police officer who serves as the deputy director, Administration, for Elite Police of Punjab, Pakistan since 26 September 2019. She was named as Lahore 's best crime fighter for 2018. She became the first female Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) from Khyber ...

  8. Minar-e-Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    Minar-e-Pakistan. Minar-e-Pakistan (Punjabi: مَنارِ پاکستان, romanized:Manār-e-Pākastān; Urdu: مینارِ پاکستان, romanized:Mīnār-e-Pākistān; lit.'Tower of Pakistan') is a tower located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. [ 1 ] The tower was built between 1960 and 1968 on the site where the All-India Muslim League passed ...

  9. Lahore - Wikipedia

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    Lahore. Lahore (/ ləˈhɔːr / lə-HOR; Punjabi: لہور [lɔː˩˥ɾ]; Urdu: لاہور [laːˈɦɔːɾ] ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Punjab. It is the second largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and 26th largest in the world, with a population of over 13 million. [10] Located in north-eastern Punjab ...