"Jine Lahore Nai Vekhiya O Jamiya Nai" is centuries old punjabi saying about Lahore, the one who never visited lahore, not born yet. How surprising if someone really never visited Lahore and hear alot about it, about it's gardens, monuments from Mughal Period to Sikh…
Punjab National Bank was founded in the year 1895 at Ganpat Rai Road, Lahore with the name of "Lahore National Bank" as an off-shoot of the Swadeshi Movement. Among the founders were Sardar Dayal Singh Majithia, Lala HarKishen Lal, Lala Lalchand, Shri Kali Prosanna Roy,…
A View at Lahore c. 1880s.
Colors of the Spirit - The Ladies stand at the Gadaffi Cricket Stadium - Lahore during Pakistan v India, 2nd Test, October 1978-79 A Photo by Patrick Eager
A group of hippies (British, French and American) wait for a bus in Lahore (1972). Pakistan was an important destination on what was called the ‘Hippie Trail.’ The trail was used by thousands of young European and American backpackers between the late 1960s and 1979.
The Pakistan Times - Founded by Mian Iftakhar ud Din "The Pakistan Times" a Lahore based English news paper. Faiz Ahmad Faiz joined as Editor at the age of 37-years as well as the head of the editorial board of its sister publications, Urdu daily…
Sahir Ludhianvi’s real life story sounds like a movie script itself. Amrita met Sahir sometime around 1944 in Preet Nagar, a village between Lahore and Amritsar. She was at this time married to Pritam Singh, who was an editor, but theirs was not the best…
Iqbal was a poet who inspired Muslims with the spirit and determination to restore to Islam its former glory and although he is no more with us, his memory will grow younger and younger with the progress and development of Muslim India. His works should…
Dr. Ajaz Anwar is a distinguished painter of Pakistan. He was a teacher at National College of Arts Lahore. His watercolor paintings show the grandeur of the old buildings and the cultural life in Lahore. Project Lahore team is grateful of being allowed to present…
April 13, 1919 - Jallianwala Bagh Massacre When People of Punjab's Twin cities (Lahore-Amritsar) were on streets! (in this rare Photo shown acceleration of Police to stop Demonstration in Amritsar) By April 6, the anti-Rowlatt satyagraha was at its peak in Punjab. "Practically the whole…