Zamindar Football Club (circa 1960s) - Established some time in the early 1900s, Zamindar Football Club from Garhi Shahu produced some of the best local football players. The club even went to play in India and Sri Lanka on a number of occasions. A number…
Mayo Hospital is one of the oldest and biggest hospital, located in the heart of Lahore City and is surrounded by busy commercial and thickly populated residential areas with famous Anarkali Bazaar, Nila Gumbad, Gawalmandi and the Walled City of Old Lahore around it. The…
Ranjit Singh was crowned on 12 April 1801 at Lahore and he rose to be the ruler of a powerful state extending from Tibet to Sindh and from Khyber pass to the Satluj. For a brief half century, from 1799 to 1846, Lahore as the administrative capital…
Maharaja Duleep Singh (also known as Dalip Singh), the last Sikh sovereign of the Punjab, was born at Lahore on 6 September 1838, the youngest son of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. On 18 September 1843, at the age of five, he was, after the murder of…
Amrita Pritam born as Amrita Kaur in a traditional Sikh family of undivided Punjab in 1919, in Gujranwala and brought up in Lahore, She was a Punjabi writer and poet, considered the first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist, and the leading 20th-century poet…
The biggest, or perhaps the best known, festival of Lahore, is that of Basant (or Jashn-e-Baharaan) held in February each year. Basant is a Punjabi festival celebrating the onset of the spring season and is also called the Basant Festival of kites. This festival is…
Rajinder Singh Bedi, a progressive Urdu writer, playwright, screenwriter, dialogue writer and a Hindi film director. was born in Lahore on 1 September 1915, to a Khatri father Hera Singh Bedi and Brahman mother Sewa Dei. His father was in service of General POst Office…
Historical Pak Tea House - Lahore Pak Tea House had remained a favourite sitting place of some of the most celebrated intellectuals of the Subcontinent for many decades since 1932 (then India Tea House). Among the literary personalities who used to visit the Pak Tea…
An institute himself, Mr. Ali Sufyan Afaqi (b: 22 August 1933 - d: 27 January 2015) has inspired generations of journalists/story writers and travelogue writers to aspire for the highest standards of professional excellence. Born in Sehore District of central Indian Muslim majority state of…
Why was Lahore called the gem of India? - “That it indeed was,” Pran Nevile a citizen of Lahore before partition and writer of "Lahore - A Sentimental Journey". He is an authority on pre-1947 Lahore replied. “It was totally different from the rest of…