Pakistan appeared on the map fifty years ago. But Its history spans many millenia. It lies at the cross road of what is now known as Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Indian Sub-continent.

Some of the earliest relics of Stone Age man were found i the Soan valley near Rawalpindi, dating back to the at least 50,000 years.

Predominanatly an agricultural country, its ancestors learned to tame and husband animals and to cultivate crops some 9,000 years ago. Farming villages dating from 6,000 BC have been excavated in Baluchistan, the North-West Frontier Province and Punjab.