Economic history of Pakistan canals, dams and power stations, began Pakistan's space programme. In 1959 the country began the construction of its new capital city. A Greek firm of architects, Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, designed the master plan of the city based on a grid plan which was triangular in shape with its apex towards the Margalla Hills. The capital was not moved directly from Karachi to Islamabad; it was first shifted temporarily to Rawalpindi in the early sixties and then to Islamabad when the essential development work was completed in 1966. The partition of British India and the emergence of India and Pakistan in
Embassy of the United States, Islamabad Embassy of the United States, Islamabad The Embassy of the United States in Islamabad is the diplomatic mission of the United States in Pakistan. Ambassador David Hale is currently the United States Ambassador to Pakistan, as of November 2015. The U.S. Department of State also maintains Consulates in Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. It is one of the largest U.S. embassies abroad, with a staff of 2,500 people. The first U.S. embassy in Pakistan was established on August 15, 1947 in Karachi, then-capital of Pakistan. When the capital was moved to Islamabad in 1960, a new embassy was constructed there. After