https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/dffe07cd-8ac5-407b-a4e8-cf70241ee21b Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm This color educational film is about the western side of the country of Pakistan. There is no copyright but based on research this is circa the late 1950s/early 1960s. Opening: 100,000,000 people live in two parts of the country of Pakistan. A map shows Pakistan (:06-:19). Pakistan village. Men hoist a sail on a boat. West Pakistan dirt. Boys at work in the dirt. People plow the dirt. Modern buildings in Islamabad. Businessmen walk near them. Animated map of Pakistan. Mosques in Pakistan (:20-2:01). Men sit around. Men have their shoes looked at. Women walk. A mosque close up. Flowers that are decals on a mosque. A fountain. The water rushes down the fountain wall (2:02-3:06). At 'the mound of the dead' excavations reveal things. Parts of houses and walls, dried up wells. West Pakistan map - Peshawar, Islamabad, Lahore. Lahore is Pakistan's 2nd largest city. City life, people on the move, busses drive. Mosques. Lahore is an industrial city. A man makes pottery. Workers make mud bricks, the process is shown. Bricks are stacked into kilns and fired with charcoal. People live in large villages. Traders weigh items. A butcher hacks meat. Cattle, especially buffalo, walk and sit in the water. Bullocks are trussed and are then used as horses to pull wagons and heavy material. She buffalos are milked (3:06-6:52). Farmers use bullocks on the fields and on the crops. A water wheel. Agriculture is shown in various forms. People plow. Wheat and sugar cane. Men tend the crops. Cotton is gathered. Wheat fields. Women cook. A family makes food together. A woman makes something with wood. Rice curry is served to a family. Children eat and drink (6:53-9:42). Animals graze and seek shade in the hot sun. Rivers dry up in the sun. The Mangla Dam is a dam located on the Jhelum River in the Mirpur District of Azad Kashmir in Pakistan. It is the seventh largest dam in the world. Water flows from the dam and then goes into a canal. It helps irrigate certain areas. A dry field. Dry land. Water is pumped through a system. Oxen walk through water in a muddy field. Men gather in a wet field. Himalayan Mountains with their snow capped peaks. Evergreen trees nearby. Men gather wood. Men saw wood, drink, and talk. Waterfalls. Water feedsa river that flows rapidly (9:43-13:52). Rice fields. A fertile plain. A bridge sees vans drive over. Pears and plum trees. Peshawar, the gateway to India and Pakistan. A busy city. Along a dirt road a truck drives. People board a bus on the outskirts of town. Buses drive down winding roads (13:53-15:51). A narrow valley between high hills. Caravans of pack animals walk. Afghanistan is right next door, men leave Pakistan in a truck for a new country (15:52-16:32) Dry, hot sandy desert on the other side of Pakistan, the Sindh desert. Camels walk around. Northwest of the desert, natural gas was found and a plant set up to harvest it. A gas pipeline leads to Karachi, the largest town in Pakistan. Karachi city life is vibrant and busy. Buses, a busy harbor (16:33-17:58). West Pakistan was one of the two exclaves created at the formation of the modern State of Pakistan following the 1947 Partition of India. After gaining independence from the British in 1947, the State of Pakistan was physically separated into two exclaves, with the western and eastern wings separated from each other by the Republic of India. West Pakistan was politically dominant despite East Pakistan having over half of the population and a disproportionately small number of seats in the Constituent Assembly. To diminish the differences between the two regions, the government decided to reorganise the country into two distinct provinces under the One Unit policy announced by Prime Minister Chaudhry Muhammad Ali on 22 November 1954. In 1970, President General Yahya Khan enacted a series of reforms. On 1 July 1970, West Pakistan was devolved and renamed "Pakistan". The order had no effect on East Pakistan, which retained the geographical position established in 1955. The next year's civil war, however, resulted in the secession of East Pakistan as the new country of Bangladesh. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." 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