Prince william and wife begin tour of pakistan

Prince William and his wife, Kate are currently in Pakistan for their most complex tour to date, their goal is to encourage improved security after years of violent militancy.

Details of the five-day visit are being kept under wraps. Security is expected to be tight for the couple’s first official trip to Pakistan, and the first visit by a British royal since William’s father Charles and his wife Camilla came in 2006.

In addition to Islamabad they are set to visit the ancient Mughal capital of Lahore, as well as the mountainous north and the region near the border with Afghanistan in the west.

The visit showed that Pakistan has come out of “difficult times”, he added.

Pakistan was carved out of colonial India to become independent from Britain in 1947, creating an Islamic Republic for the subcontinent’s Muslims.