Punjab Sports Festival

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Punjab Sports Festival 2012 (Urdu: پنجاب سپورٹس فیسٹیول), is a sports festival held in Punjab, Pakistan. It is running by the Government of Punjab. It is a divisional, district, tehsil and union council level festival, inaugurated on February 28, 2012 by Hamza Shahbaz Sharif. It is organised by the Sports Board Punjab in Lahore.

Lahore Marathon

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The Lahore Marathon is an annual road marathon held in Lahore, Pakistan since 2005. The main event is the traditional 42.195 km marathon race. Other races in the marathon include a 10 km race, 5 km “Family Fun Run”, and 3 km races for people with physical and visual impairment. The marathon is preceded by a gala dinner for international athletes, foreign dignitaries, government and corporate leaders. Approximately 26,000 […]

Cholistan Jeep Safari

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[nggallery id=87] Cholistan Jeep rally is an annual 3-day even of fun and adventure which takes place in choilstan (also called Rohi) desert of Pakistan. Punjab Tourism Development Corporation Managing Director Saad S Khan declared on Monday that the Cholistan Jeep Rally would start on February 16 and continue till 19th while this event would […]

Paragliding

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[nggallery id=88] Paragliding, a free-flying thrill sport, is gradually taking roots in cricket-crazy Pakistan which offers perfect environment and geography to enthusiasts to fly like birds. Paragliding was introduced in Pakistan mainly by European climbers in the 1980s when they visited the South Asian country to scale some of world’s highest mountains in country’s north. […]

Mountaineering in Pakistan

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[nggallery id=89] Pakistan is blessed with magnificent, lofty and challenging mountains which offer great opportunities for mountaineering, trekking and other adventure activities. It is here that three spectacular mountain ranges of the world, Karakoram, Hindukush and Himalayas meet. The vast mountain tract of Pakistan’s North, 500 kms in width and 300 kms in depth, boasts […]

Yak polo

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[nggallery id=90] In Pakistan, Yak polo is played in the Himalayas and Hindukush atBoroghil in District Chitral. The event is held in July every year and is sponsored by the Sarhad Tourism Corporation, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Yak polo is the famous cultural event of the Wakhi community in the Broghil, in the Pamir region of northern Pakistan. The sport has gained popularity […]

Rock Climbing

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[nggallery id=91] PAKISTAN – THE ROCK CLIMBER’S PARADISE The CONTINENTAL COLLISION of the three mighty mountain ranges of the world the Himalayas, the Karakorams & the Hindukush in the North of Pakistan has given birth to the thickest cluster of the Highest Peaks and Largest Glaciers on Earth. The statistics are simply baffling. 05 of the world’s 14 peaks above8000 meters are in Pakistan. 101 peaks […]

Rafting

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[nggallery id=92] Pakistan has numerous beautiful and breathtaking places for rafting. The high mountains on its northern side and the snow peaks and glaciers, give birth to the rivers that tumble down from the Karakoram, Hidukush and Himalayas before meeting the Arabian sea; increase the beauty of Pakistan. Theses north region rivers give a wonderful […]

Trekking

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[nggallery id=93] Pakistan is a paradise for mountains trekkers, most of the trekking routes lay in the northern mountains of The Karakorams, the Himalayas, Hindukush and Pamir. For most of the treks, The Ministry of Tourism, Government of Pakistan, has defined trekking as walking below 6500 meters. It has designated three Zones for trekking; open, […]

Mountain Biking

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[nggallery id=94] There are plenty of opportunities for cross country mountain bicycling in all the mountain ranges of the country. However, due to higher temperatures in the mountains except for the Northern Pakistan, this sport can only be undertaken during the winters. The smooth lower hills of Swat, Azad Kashmir, and Galliyat provide adequate opportunities […]