Which Pak city is cooler – Lahore or Karachi
While visiting Lahore and Karachi, I found both cities were being perceived as unsafe. In Karachi, friends warned that I might die in a bomb blast in Lahore. In Lahore, friends warned that my cell phone might be robbed at gunpoint in Karachi. It was funny to hear Karachiites and Lahoris being bitchy about each [...]
PAF (Pakistan Air Force) Museum
The museum is a remarkable achievement for the preservation of the history of Pakistan Air Force, and will be of particular interest to aviation buffs. The PAF Museum has well-thought out displays of vintage and historic aircraft. It was designed and built with an aim to make it “the window of the history of the [...]
Group exhibition commences at RAC
By Afshan S. Khan Rawalpindi:Only artists can show the real picture of society in its candid form and sensitise people to come forward and help others who are in dire need of support. Today Pakistan is severely affected by torrential rains and floods. Besides that, terrorism has also ripped the very fabric of our society [...]
Ismail Gulgee
Ismail Gulgee (October 25, 1926 – December 14, 2007) Pride of Performance, Sitara-e-Imtiaz (twice), Hilal-e-Imtiaz, was an award-winning, globally famous Pakistani artist born in Peshawar. He was a qualified engineer in the U.S. and self-taught abstract painter and portrait painter. Before 1959, as portraitist, he painted the entire Afghan Royal Family. From about 1960 on, [...]
Data Darbar, Lahore, Pakistan
Abul Hassan Ali Ibn Usman al-Jullabi al-Hajweri al-Ghaznawi or Abul Hassan Ali Hajweri (Arabic: علی بن عثمان الجلابی الهجویری الغزنوی ) (sometimes spelled Hujwiri), also known as Data Ganj Bakhsh (Persian/Urdu: داتا گنج بخش ) or Data Sahib, was a Persian Sufi and scholar during the 11th century. He significantly contributed to the spreading of [...]
Samadh of Maharaja Ranjit Singhs son in Lahore vandalised
The samadh of Sher Singh, son of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, in Lahore in ruins. Its remains have been painted red and green to merge with the mosque nearby. The samadh of Sher Singh (1807-1843), son of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and ruler of Sikh state of joint Punjab, in Lahore has been vandalised beyond recognition. No [...]
Habib Wali Muhammad
Habib Wali Mohammad (born 1921) is a Pakistani ghazal singer Early life Born in Rangoon to a conservative memon family. His family, Tabani, an industrial house has large business holdings in Pakistan. He received his MBA from Syracuse University in 1947, and then lived in Bombay for about 10 years before moving to Pakistan. His [...]
Bagh Ibne Qasim
The Bagh Ibne Qasim باغ ابنِ قاسم is located in Clifton, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Inaugurated by President Pervez Musharraf on February 27, 2007, Pakistan’s biggest park constructed under Clifton Beach Development Project on 130 acres (0.53 km2) of land. The old Toyland Theme Park has been done away with and this park replaces it. The park cost [...]
Culture of Pakistan
The society and culture of Pakistan comprises numerous diverse cultures and ethnic groups: the Punjabis, Kashmiri and Sindhis in the east; the tribal cultures of the Baloch and Pashtun in the west; and the ancient Dardic and Tajik communities in the north. These Pakistani cultures have been greatly influenced by many of the surrounding countries’ [...]
Satghara
Satghara Satghara is a small town in Okara District, Punjab, Pakistan. The tomb of Baloch folk hero, Mir Chakar Khan Rind is also located at Satghara. On the southern bank of the Ravi, it is a typical Pakistani village. An old, sleepy and tranquil village. Pakistani Village Satghara lies about 80 kilometres from Lahore (20 [...]
