Allama Ala-ud-din Siddiqui, was a freedom fighter, religious scholar, and educationalist who took an active part in the creation of Pakistan. He served as General Secretary of Punjab Muslim League in 1946-1947. He established the Department of Islamic Studies and Punjabi at Punjab University Lahore,…
Maharajah Ranjit Singh (born November 13, 1780, Gujranwala —died June 27, 1839, Lahore), founder and maharaja (1801–39) of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab., was the founder of the Sikh Empire, which came to power in the Indian subcontinent in the early half of the…
Gurdwara Guru Mangat #Lahore c. 1940s Once this gurdwara used to be very close to Lahore Cantonment railway station, later Gulberg was developed around it. Guru Hargobind came here after leaving Mozang and built this Gurudawara. It suffered vast damage during the troubles in 1947…
VIEW : Kamini Kaushal: Lahore is home — Ishtiaq Ahmed In spite of her 85 years, Kamini Kaushal was exceptionally eloquent as she shared her phenomenal down-the-memory-lane fund of stories about Lahore As I continue probing the Lahore-Bombay film industry linkage, the pre-partition Lahore legend…
Abdur Rashid Kardar (b:1904–d:1989), aka A.R. Kardar, was an actor and film director/film producer. He is credited as establishing the film industry in the Bhati Gate locality of Lahore. He was an arts scholar and a calligraphist working for foreign film companies, but after the…
Alif Laila Book Bus - A Mobile Library in Lahore To encourage literacy in Pakistan, in 1983, The Asia Foundation undertakes a major three-year project to provide "Box Libraries" throughout rural Pakistan, utilizing buses as mobile libraries. It used to visit Schools and for a…
PPP formation, 1967: It’s amazing how little is available by way of any visual documentation of what was perhaps one the most iconic events in the history of Pakistani politics – i.e. the formation of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) during a convention in Lahore in…
Ancestry and Birth: The Sikhs were taking over the rule of Kashmir in the early nineteenth century. This was a life-threatening problem for a family who had then recently converted to Islam from their former status of being Kashmiri Pandits, belonging to the Brahmins of…
I once had a chance of working with an NGO for raising awareness about the dengue fever. We worked tirelessly day and night in the streets of old Lahore, which is referred to as the “down town.” A canal demarcates life in Lahore. Northern Lahore…
Lahore is touted as the cultural hub of Punjab and the heart of Pakistan. There is a famous saying here in Pakistan “jinnay Lahore nahi vekhea o jamya nai” which roughly translates into (anyone who hasn’t seen Lahore, hasn’t been born yet) and many believe…