Calendar of Events

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• Calendar of Events
• for
• Visit Pakistan Year 2007

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January 2007
Visit Pakistan Year 2007

• 14th Lahore Marathon
• 15th to 21st Pakistan Tourism Fair, Lahore
• 17th to 18th Competition of Brass Band by
  Pakistan Armed Forces

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February 2007
Visit Pakistan Year 2007
Sibi Mela National Ski Championship
at Malam Jabba Thar Desert Festival (and
marathon) with cultural programme at Umarkot
Fort In Sindh. Jashan e Baharan (Spring
Festival)

• 4th and 5th
• 10th to 15th
• 16th to 18th
• 18th to
• 23 March

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March 2007
Visit Pakistan Year 2007

• 2nd to 12th
• 8th to 10th
• 8th to 9th
• 15th

• International Extreme Skiing Free Ride
  Competition at Naran
• 3rd Cholistan Desert Jeep Rally with
  cultural event
• Channan Pir Festival (Including Camel Safari)
• Mehrgarh Conference, Quetta

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March 2007 (Contd)
Visit Pakistan Year 2007

• Spring Blossom Festival
• Northern Areas
• National Folk Puppet Festival, Museum of
  Puppetry Lahore
• Tour of Islamabad - Cycle Race
• Gandhara Week with
• Sound and Light show at Taxila

• 15th to 20th
• 21st to 28th
• 23th to 25th
• 26th to 31st

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April 2007
Visit Pakistan Year 2007

• 1st to 10th International Youth Performing
  Arts Festival at Lahore
• 11th to 14th Baisakhi (Hasan Abdal)
• 12th to 13th Baisakhi Mela (Festival at Sakhi
  Sarwar)
• 13th to 20th International Mystic Music
  Festival, Lahore
• 25th to 27th 49th meeting of UN WTO, CSA and
  CAP
• 27th to 29th Train SafariKhewra Salt Mines
  with cultural programme

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May 2007
Visit Pakistan Year 2007

• 11th to 15th Chitral and Kalash Festival
• 16th to 21th White Water Rafting in Azad
  Kashmir
• 25th to 27th SAARC Tourism Mart, Karachi

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June 2007
Visit Pakistan Year 2007

• 9th Golden Jubilee Celebration of the first
  ascent of Broad Peak (8047 m)
• 15th June to Pakistan Women Kushek Training/
• 15th July Expedition Hunza
• 15th June to Pakistan Broad Peak Golden
• 30th August Jubilee Expedition.
• 22nd to 29th Shogran Festival.
• 25th to 27th Hunza Festival Tourism
  Convention

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July 2007
Visit Pakistan Year 2007

• 7th to 9th Shandur Polo Festival (Chitral -
  Gilgit)
• (with Festival at Kalash)
• 10th to 15th Karakorum Car Rally
• 15th to 17th Broghil Festival
• 23rd to 28th Mountain Marathon (AJK - Kaghan)

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August 2007
Visit Pakistan Year 2007

• 12th to 14th Freedom Jeep Rally at
  Gaddani Beach (Balochistan)
• 14th 60th Independence Day Celebrations
• 23rd to 24th Mahodand Mountain Jeep
  Safari to the source of river Swat
  (9000m above sea level)

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September 2007
Visit Pakistan Year 2007

• 1st to 6th Silk Route Festival
• (Northern Areas)
• 1st to 3rd International Mountain Marathon,
  Hunza
• 3rd to 6th Sufi Festival at Sehwan in Sindh

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September 2007 (Contd..)
Visit Pakistan Year 2007

• 7th to 9th International Mountain Bike Race
  Kaghan
• 10th to 11th International Mountain Tourism
  Conference, Islamabad.
• 10th to 12th Karakorum International Film
  Festival, Islamabad (KIFF).
• 20th to 24th Painted Truck Caravan Karachi to
  Khyber
• 27th World Tourism Day Celebrations at
  Peshawar
• (Ramazan Celebrations in NWFP)

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October 2007
Visit Pakistan Year 2007

• 9th to 14th Hot Air Ballooning Competition,
  Islamabad
• 15th to 20th Jashn-e-Sahil (Balochistan
  Coastal Area) Gwadar
• 21st to 28th Journey through Time
• Sound Light Show and Cultural Event at
  Moenjodaro.

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November 2007
Visit Pakistan Year 2007

• 1st to 13th Discover the Trail of Alexander
  the Great
• from Nawagai in the North to Balochistan
  Coastal Area in the South.
• 1st Jashan-e-Azadi Gilgit Celebrations
• 2nd to 11th Birthday Celebrations of Guru
  Nanak at Lahore, Hasan Abdal and Nankana
  Sahib
• 10th to 19th International Paragliding
  Competition at
• - Islamabad
• - Swat
• - Azad Kashmir
• (Pakistan Association of Free flying (PAFF))

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November 2007 (Contd.)
Visit Pakistan Year 2007

• 24th World Buddhist Congress
• Festival of Asian Arts and Crafts
• at Islamabad
• 21st to 27th International Festival of
  Performing Arts Lahore

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December 2007
Visit Pakistan Year 2007

• 1st to 9th 28th Champions Trophy Hockey
  Tournament at National Hockey Stadium
  Lahore
• 1st to 20th Pakistan Cultural Train Safari
• (Peshawar to Karachi)
• 24th Christmas Celebrations, Lahore.
• 30th Tourism Convention and Closing
  Ceremony at Islamabad with cultural show
• The Events and Festivals are subject to
  inevitable changes