PIA Planetarium is a Pakistani planetarium located in Karachi. [1] Planetarium contains a Sky-Dome and a Boeing 720 AP-AXM standing in a park. It provides education to students of science. It was established in 1985 firstly in Karachi and then in Lahore. This planetarium is working under Pakistan International Airlines.
Pia or PIA may refer to:
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PIA Planetarium may refer to:
PIA Planetarium is a planetarium in Lahore, Pakistan run by Pakistan International Airlines. It was established after the establishment of PIA Planetarium, Karachi. It contains a dome building and a retired Boeing 720-047B standing in a park.
PIA Planetarium is a planetarium based in Peshawar. It was inaugurated on April 2, 2011 by the then Minister of Information, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mian Iftikhar Hussain. It is established and worked by the Pakistan International Airlines. It is the third planetarium operated by the PIA in Pakistan, the total cost being roughly 900,000$ at the time.
On 8 June 2014, 10 militants armed with automatic weapons, a rocket launcher, suicide vests, and grenades attacked Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan. 36 people were killed, including all 10 attackers, and 18 others were wounded. The militant organisation Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) initially claimed responsibility for the attack. According to state media, the attackers were foreigners of Uzbek origin who belonged to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), an Al Qaeda-linked militant organisation that works closely with TTP. The TTP later confirmed that the attack was a joint operation they executed with the IMU, who independently admitted to having supplied personnel for the attack.
Masroor Anwar was a ghazal poet, film song lyricist and a film screenwriter. He wrote the lyrics for 'Ko Ko Korina', South Asia's first pop song, and working alongside Sohail Rana, film director Pervez Malik and film producer and actor Waheed Murad in the 1960s, was part of the country's golden age of cinema helping establish Karachi as a major hub for film production.
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 was a scheduled domestic flight from Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore to Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan. On 22 May 2020, the Airbus A320 crashed into Model Colony, a densely populated residential area of Karachi only a few kilometres from the runway, while on a second approach after a failed landing attempt with landing gear not extended.