Che in Karachi: Yes, thats the great Marxist revolutionary and legend, Che Ernesto Guevara,

standing along side Pakistans first military dictator, Ayub Khan.

hippies enjoying a few puffs of hashish on the roof of a cheap hotel in Peshawar in 1972. Yes,
Peshawar.
Moonwalkers in Karachi, 1973: the entire crew of NASAs Apollo 17 flight to the moon visited
Pakistan? In July 1973, astronauts of the United States last mission to the moon arrived in Karachi.
Desperado, 1981: This is a rare photograph of notorious Pakistani left-wing radical, Salamulla
Tipu, hanging out from the cockpit of a PIA plane that he had hijacked with three other colleagues in
1981.
Tipu, a leftist student leader from Karachi, had joined Murtaza Bhuttos Al-Zulfikar Organisation
(AZO) to instigate an urban guerrilla war against the Ziaul Haq dictatorship (1977-88).

The plane was hijacked from Karachi, flown to Kabul and then to Damascus. Tipu and co. (armed
with AK-47s and hand grenades), only released the passengers after the Zia regime agreed to
release 50-plus political prisoners from jails.
A special stamp released by government of Pakistan in 1973, to plead the return of the
90,000 Pakistani prisoners of war captured by the Indian forces during the 1971 war.

Militant Bengali nationalists (Mukti Bhaini) aim at West Pakistan troops during the 1971 Civil War
between West Pakistani military and East Pakistan nationalists.
East Pakistani women march with guns on the streets of Dhaka in a show of defiance against the
West Pakistan military establishment (1971).

Pakistani men take an adventurous ride on an Afghan taxi (1972). Every day thousands of
Pakistanis crossed into Afghanistan for trade on such taxis. Many would also visit Kabul to watch
latest Indian films in Kabul cinemas then return to Pakistan in the evening because Indian movies
were banned in Pakistan.
A 21-year-old Benazir Bhutto sitting on the porch of her father Z A. Bhuttos house in Karachi
(1974).
The charismatic Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of the popular US President, J. F. Kennedy, visited
Pakistan in 1962. Here she is seen riding in an open-top limo with the then ruler of Pakistan, Ayub
Khan.

The first men on the moon land in Pakistan. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin (the first
men to land on the moon), arrived in Karachi in early 1970 during their tour of South Asia. Here they
are seen being greeted by an enthusiastic crowd just outside the Karachi Airport.
Pakistani sprinter, Abdul Khalique (left), on his way to winning Pakistans first international gold
medal in athletics. He won this honour in the 1959 Commonwealth Games in the 100 meters dash.

Rare photo of the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, shaking hands with future Baloch
nationalist leader, Nawab Akbar Bugti, in Quetta, in 1948.
The Pakistan hockey team playing against Great Britain at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.
Notice how a Pakistani player is sprinting across the field completely barefooted! This 1956 Pakistan
team that was desperately low on resources and money not only topped its qualifying group in
Melbourne, but went on to reach the finals of the tournament where it was beaten by India 1-0 in a
closely fought contest.
Various leaders of the Muslim world gather inside Lahores historic Badhshahi Mosque to say the evening
prayers.
The picture was taken during the 1974 Islamic Summit organised by the government of Z A. Bhutto
in Lahore and in which dozens of heads of state of Muslim countries took part.

Bhutto wanted to use the occasion to open a third front in the Cold War dominated by the US-led
West and the Soviet-led communist bloc.

Bhutto also explained the summit as an expression of his regimes idea of progressive Muslim
democracy and Islamic Socialism even though most of the attendees were either monarchs or
dictators.

Seen in the picture are PLO chief, Yasser Arafat (in dark glasses), Z A. Bhutto (in a Jinnah cap),
Libyan leader Colonel Qadhafi, and Saudi monarch, Shah Faisal.
A 1975 photo of a hash (cannabis) shop in Kohat. Various such shops sprang up to mostly cater to
the rising number of Western hippie tourists who would travel by road from Turkey through Iran and
then enter Pakistan from Afghanistan.