Pizza is surprisingly very popular in Pakistan. The country's first pizzerias opened up in Karachi and Islamabad in the 1980s. Pizza is especially popular in the Eastern regions of Pakistan (to be specific, in the provinces of Sindh, Punjab, and Azad Kashmir as well as Gilgit-Baltistan). Pizza is not known in the Western part of Pakistan but there is a Pizza Hut in Peshawar. In the regions of Pakistan where pizza is known spicy chicken and sausage-based pizzas are very popular.