Picturing Pakistan’s Past [2.1]
Pakistan today is a conservative, Islamic country, but it was a far different place in its younger days. In the 1960s and ’70s, Pakistan’s elite, many of them educated in the West, could publicly...
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A 1973 album cover (that was then turned into a poster) of Pakistani film playback singer and pop icon, Runna Laila. This poster became popular with college students and could be found gracing the...
View ArticleThis was also Pakistan [ 3.1 ]
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, addresses a rally at Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s mausoleum in Karachi in 1969. (Photo courtesy of eBay.) The rally was held immediately after a...
View ArticlePak Hindus throng renovated centuries-old temple
After attending the inauguration ceremony of the renovated Kata Raj Mandirs Complex at the pond, local Hindus visited the temples.They worshipped at Lord Shiva’s lingam. Hindus believe that by...
View ArticleThis was also Pakistan [ 3.2 ]
A vibrant 1973 poster prepared and printed by the Pakistan Ministry of Tourism to attract tourism to the city of Lahore. · THE FIRST THREE DECADES OF PAKISTAN’S HISTORY WERE BOOZE, BIKINI &...
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A 1951 brochure of a Pakistani company (based in Sialkot) specialising in the making of musical instruments from wood and cow skin. Sialkot is still famous around the world for its quality sporting...
View ArticleThis was also Pakistan [4.2]
A 1960s shot of Karachi’s famous Hotel Metropole, which was famous for its night clubs and bars. The hotel today is being torn down and turned into a shopping and office complex. Half of it has already...
View ArticleThis was also Pakistan [ 5.1 ]
Rare photo of the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, shaking hands with future Baloch nationalist leader, Nawab Akbar Bugti, in Quetta, in 1948. In the 1950s and 1960s, Bugti became a critic of...
View ArticleThis was also Pakistan [ 5.2 ]
European ‘Earthwalkers’ in Islamabad, 1973. They had arrived in the Pakistan capital to raise awareness about environmental issues. · · ALSO PAKISTAN: THE FINAL · BY NADEEM F. PARACHA · The Also...
View ArticleThis was also Pakistan [ 5.3 ]
A 1973 press ad of the United Bank of Pakistan (UBL). It was one of the largest private banks in the country but was nationalised by the Z A. Bhutto regime in 1972 that won the 1970 election (in West...
View ArticleWhile Memory Serves [3 of 3]
Vultures sitting on the roofs of a building while corpses lie below, abandoned in alleyway after bloody rioting · CALCUTTA, 1 7TH AUGUST 1946, THE INFERNO · by Sir Francis Tuker · In the middle of the...
View ArticleBlinded by Guilt
Refugees during the partition of India (in 1947). Photo: Creative Common · The immensity of the guilt in perpetrators of crimes does bring wrath of God Almighty. It could be a physical disability...
View ArticleWho Owns Harand Fort? – Pakistan
Ruins of Harand Fort continue to mystify all those who take their chance to go there. First of all it gives an emotional look, as a symbol of our evolution and continuity. No matter what your pursuits...
View ArticleThe shepherd from Vijhara
The moral of the tale is that the men of of sense must never lend ear to women’s gossip. But that is not the true essence that hides behind the tale. This is a tale of Punjabi resistance to the...
View ArticleWhy Visit Lahore
There is a saying in Punjabi, if you haven’t visited Lahore then you haven’t seen Pakistan, and if you haven’t seen Badshahi Mosque, you haven’t seen Lahore. You cannot escape the sight of this grand...
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