Pakistan's capital (pop. over 1.2 million) is largely modern, having been built as a planned city in the 1960s, and one of its emblems is the country's national mosque - the world's fifth largest (holding some 300,000 worshippers at once), inaugurated in 1986, designed to suggest a Bedouin tent, and named after Saudi Arabia's then king Faisal, whose donation helped build it.
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