Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first practical mobile phone call on April 3, 1973, using the DynaTAC prototype he and his team developed 1.

Covering roughly 3.5 million square miles (9 million km²), the Sahara spans northern Africa from the Red Sea to the Atlantic and transitions to the Sahel in the south 1.

Nicknamed “The Killer Mountain” due to numerous fatal climbs in the early 20th century, Nanga Parbat is the world’s ninth highest peak and remains unclimbed in winter 1.

“Status quo” is a Latin term meaning “the state in which,” referring to the current state of affairs and often used to denote preserving existing conditions 1.

The Latin phrase “ad hoc” literally means “for this,” denoting solutions or committees created for a specific task without general applicability 1.

“Viva voce” is Latin for “with the living voice,” commonly understood to mean “by word of mouth” and used to describe oral examinations or testimony 1.

The Pakistan People’s Party held its founding convention in Lahore on November 30–December 1, 1967, electing Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as chairman and adopting a manifesto for egalitarian democracy and economic justice.

The Suez Canal, connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea’s Gulf of Suez, officially opened in November 1869 and today spans 193.3 km in length and up to 205 m in width.

The Khyber Pass is a 53 km mountain corridor through the Hindu Kush, linking Pakistan’s northern frontier with Afghanistan and lending its name to roads and suburbs as far afield as Auckland and Delhi .

Kazakhstan, with an area of 2,727,300 km², is the world’s largest landlocked country and the ninth largest overall, surpassing the combined size of Western Europe.