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      World Famous Battles Battle of Marathon 490 BC Athenians and Persians. King Darius of Persia defeated. Battle of Thermoplaye 480 BC Spartans led by Leonidas and Persians led by Xerexes. Greeks defeated. Battle of Salamis 480 BC Athenian fleet and Persian fleet in bay of Salamis; Persian fleet defeated. Battle of Platae 479 BC Greek and Persians forces defeated. Battle of Mycale 479 BC Greek and Persian fleets; Persian fleet defeated. Spartan War I (Peloponesian War) 459 BC Sparta and Athens, lasted for 30 years. Spartan War II Home 431 BC-421 Sparta and Athens; Spartans victorious. Battle of Arabia 331 BC Greek and Persian forces; Greeks victorious. Battle of Magnesia 190 BC Syrian and Roman forces; Syrian forces defeated (North-west Lydia). Battle of Pharasalus 48 AD Caesar defeated Pompey. Battle of Hastings 1066 William, the Duck of Normandy defeated Harold, the king of England. England came under the control of Normans. Hundred- year War 1338- 1453 Fought betwee...

  ON one of his trips to Karachi towards the middle of 2000, Pakistan’s ‘chief executive’ and army chief Gen Pervez Musharraf agreed to a meeting requested by one the country’s most prominent business figures known for his services, and close ties, to the military top brass. The meeting, in the VVIP lounge of Karachi Airport, just before Gen Musharraf was to take off on his return flight by a special aircraft to Rawalpindi, had a one-point agenda. The business figure asked for the general’s help as he was being ‘unfairly hounded’ by NAB. NAB, or the National Accountability Bureau, was set up soon after Musharraf’s October 1999 coup with the avowed task of rooting out corruption in the country and the repatriation of ‘looted’ national wealth in cases where it had been taken abroad. Lt-Gen Syed Mohammad Amjad had been named the first NAB chairman. He belonged to a rare breed of officers. Very rare in recent decades. His colleagues and juniors talk of a man committed to princi...

 GEOGRAPHY OF PAKISTAN • Steel Mill is in Bin Qasim • Old name of Jacobabad is Khangharh. • Kot Digi Fort is in Khairpur district. • Peshawar means city of flowers. • Warsak dam (near Peshawar) is built on Kabul River. • Tirich Mir mounts of Hindu Kash separate Afghanistan and Tajistan from Pak: • Islamia College Peshawar was founded in 1914 by Sahibzada Abdul Qayum. • Quaid Azam Medical College is in Bahawalpur. • Choukundi toms are located near Karachi. • Atock Fort was built by Akbar. • The land b/w Indus & Jehlum river is called Thal Desert or Sindh Sagar Doab. • Ruins of Harapa found in Sahiwal. • Lahore Fort was built by Akbar. • At Toonsa Sharif the borders of three provinces meet. • With Gilgit & Baltistan the frontiers of three counties meet. • Tochi pass connects Pak: with China. • Pak: has 6 international airports. • Pak: has 27 Radio Stations. • —- district, —- divisions. • Pak: railways factory is in Risalpur. • Chitral is famous for gold. • Port Qasim is the l...