Pakistan, the cradle of the world’s oldest civilisation, is a land of much splendour, from the highest peaks of Himalayas through the green valleys of Indus to the Arabian Sea. Islamabad is the official capital of Pakistan. Flanked by Iran and landlocked Afghanistan in the west and the Central Asian Republics and China in the North, with proximity to the affluent Middle East, Pakistan offers a vast market of over 500 million consumers. Pakistan with its warm water ports, the largest being at Karachi, and railway network offers short route to supply goods and services to its various far flung cities and adjacent countries.