Made in the 1960s as part of the "New Horizons" series of promotional films, this Pan Am color travel film promotes visits to the "new" South Asian Republic of Pakistan. (The film was made prior to the separation of East Pakistan into the nation of Bangladesh in the early 1970s, but primarily concentrates on West Pakistan). The films opens with a contrasting view of a "pokey ol' camel" lumbering through the heart of a modern city, Karachi, ...
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