Flood relief Campaign of Heritage Foundation Pakistan
The Heritage Foundation has been an active participants in providing an humanitarian assistance to the regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhhwa: In Hazara since the great Earth Quake in 2005, and in IDP Camps in Mardan in 2009. During the last few months in number of centers in Swat, a women empowerment program based on traditional crafts [...]
Exhition of rare documents opens at Lok Virsa
A sense of enthusiasm and fervour has gripped Lok Virsa where an exhibition of rare photographs and documents related to Pakistan movement opened at Heritage Museum, Shakarparian, Islamabad today. The exhibition is jointly organized by National Archives of Pakistan (NAP) in collaboration with Lok Virsa. This exhibition is an important part of the series of [...]
Indian classical dance now a global heritage
Once confined to temples, Indian classical dance is crossing the seas, creating new cross-cultural idioms and churning out foreign exponents. Classical dancers of foreign origin say genres like bharatanatyam, kathak and mohiniattam have become fashion, wellness and cultural statements among GenNext in Southeast Asia and in the West because of their heritage and mystic pull. [...]
Ustad Hamid Ali Khan entertains music lovers
By Saadia Khalid Islamabad:A live musical concert with well-known classical singer belonging to famous Patiala Gharana Ustad Hamid Ali Khan, organised by Lok Virsa under Joint Institutional Cultural Cooperation between Pakistan and Norway, enthralled audience on Thursday night. Ustad Hamid Ali Khan was born in 1953. He is the leading example of famous traditions of [...]
City’s heritage left to the mercy of none
By Afnan Khan Lodhi LAHORE: The government has left several historic monuments in and around the Walled City to the mercy of massive pollution, vibration caused by heavy-duty vehicles on bus stands, encroachments and a dense population. The monuments, including Badshahi Mosque, Lahore Fort, Begum Shahi Mosque, Wazir Khan Mosque, Gurdwara Dera Sahib, Minar-e-Pakistan and [...]
President visits special Gandhara exhibition
PARIS: President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday visited the special Gandhara exhibition here at the National Museum of Asian Art Guimet, that is drawing large crowds and presenting a soft and rich image of Pakistan.Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Aseefa Bhutto Zardari also accompanied the President.The exhibition – “Pakistan – Where Civilizations meet” has [...]
The Inclination by Laiq Qureshi and Shargeel Zafar
…..to speak out, feel, express, choose. The solitary figure of man or beast, deliberating the impetus to act and to feel the effect of doing so, which is created in painstaking detail on repeated surfaces. Sharing the space are graphically generated images of protagonists in a decorative world, full of design, text and layers of [...]
Traditional heritage with digital art
By Sohail Raza KARACHI: The Art Chowk Gallery is hosting an exhibition of Laiq Qureshi and Shargeel Zafar titled ‘The Inclination’, which will continue until August 3. The exhibition has placed two practices referencing common issues; one uses traditional media and tools, whereas the other explores the artistic boundaries with technology. Shargeel Zafar, a graduate [...]
‘YASMEEN LARI’ An Architect, Conservationist and Architectural Historian
Yasmeen Lari is the first woman architect of Pakistan. After schooling at Lahore, Pakistan, she graduated from Oxford School of Architecture (Oxford Brookes University) and was elected Member of Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 1969. In recognition of her services to the architectural profession and heritage conservation, she has been awarded Sitara-e-Imtiaz by [...]
Figurines discovered in Punjab
SAHIWAL: Archaeologists have discovered a number of animal and human figurines of historic period during excavation at Tibba Sungarwala, Kamalia and Toba Tek Singh. They believe these figurines having historical value can be traced back to 7 to 16 century AD. It is claimed to be the first excavation for historic period treasures in the [...]
