Pakistan Virtual Library
History and Regional Cultures

• Harappa
  http://www.harappa.com/
  [Beautifully designed site that provides "glimpses of South Asia before 1947." Well-integrated multimedia presentations.]
• M. A. Jinnah
  http://www.cybercity-online.net/quaid.htm
  [The founder of the nation of Pakistan and its first Governor-General.]
  
  Islam
• Gregorian-Hijri Calendar Dates Converter
  http://www.rabiah.com/convert/
  [A calendrical date converter facility.]


Regions: Northern
N W F P and the Mountains
• Abbottabad Home Page
  http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Parc/1733/abtd.html
  [A site devoted to scenic photos and maintained by Nadia H. Saifuddin.]
• Rock Carvings and Inscriptions along the Karakorum Highway
  http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~u71/kara/welcome.html
  [Sites of interest along the highway connecting Pakistan with China. The page is hosted at Heidelberg University in Germany which maintains a joint Pakistani-German project to document and publish major rock art sites in the region. At present there are about 30 registered sites along about 100 km on both sides of the Indus, bearing some 30,000 petroglyphs and 5,000 inscriptions in more than 10 writing systems.]
• Salt Range Temples
  http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/arth/meister/pakistan.html
  [Photographs of temples dating from the sixth to early eleventh century from some ten sites along the Indus River and in the Salt Range mountains. Reports an international collaborative project headed by Faird Khan (founder of the Pakistan Heritage Society), Abdur Rehman (University of Peshawar), and Michael Meister (University of Pennsylvania).]
  
  Punjab
• Punjabi Network
  http://punjabi.net/
  [A limited topical directory and resources for Punjabis and people interested in things Punjabi.]
  
  Regions: Southern
• Worldwide Sindh Network
  http://sindh.net/
  [A specialized index of web sites that are related to the Sindhi region.]

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