Shah Yaqeeq Bukhari: The Saint of the Kakralo
There are many popular Sufi shrines in the district of Sujawal. However, the shrine of Shah Yaqeeq Bukhari is the...
There are many popular Sufi shrines in the district of Sujawal. However, the shrine of Shah Yaqeeq Bukhari is the...
The majority of historic tombs in districts of Kamber-Shahdadkot, Dadu, Sanghar, and Shaheed Benazirabad (formerly Nawabshah) depict the folk romances...
Almost every hamlet in Bhimbrar Trar village near Gulberg Residencia in Islamabad capital territory is noted for its unique history,...
There are Sufi shrines in almost every old locality of Rawalpindi which belong to different Sufi orders. A few of...
I have discovered many rock art sites during my frequent trips to Gadap in the Malir district in the Karachi...
There are several shrines in villages and towns within the Islamabad Capital territory which belong to various Sufi orders. Much...
During my frequent visits to the villages and towns of Pothohar to document painted murals for my forthcoming book Wall...
Fururi and Dabas villages in Tangir valley are especially noted for their exquisite wooden mosques. I visited both villages first...
Bishandaur, now called Dewan-e-Hazoori/Huzoori, is a historical village in Sohawa tehsil in the Jhelum district. It was called Bishandaur Sharif...
Kallar Syedan tehsil in Rawalpindi district is home to many shrines which belong to different Sufi orders. One such Sufi...
Pothohar is home to several forts and fortresses which are located at strategic locations, mostly overlooking rivers, rivulets and hill...
About 8 km southeast of Nindo town in Badin, Sindh, is located the historical necropolis of Haibat Faqir Jamali in...
The tradition of making wooden funerary statues of the ancestors, locally called a gandao, still continues in the three valleys...
Kalhora tombs are noted for their distinctive architectural elements. One of the most prominent features is an ornamental lantern which...
I discovered many rock art sites during my two decades’ fieldwork in Karachi and Jamshoro districts. Amongst these, the Lahut...
There are many historical graveyards in Jamshoro district, where are buried Samma-, Arghun-, Tarkhan-, Mughal-, Kalhora- and Talpur-period nobles. The...
Pakistan is home to a large number of rock art sites. These sites are located in different regions of the...
There are a great variety of stupa images in the Khirthar mountain range in Sindh, where multi-storey and tower-like stupa...
Monuments of the Gakhars, who ruled Pothohar in Punjab are found in many towns and villages of the region. The...
During my research in Pothohar which spans over two decades, on history, heritage and culture, I visited many Sufi shrines....
Like many other folk romances, the folktale of Suhni and Mehar also captured the attention of Sindhi painters, who painted...
The villages of Hariyar, Kerti, and Jhanjihar in Mithi taluka in Tharparkar district are home to memorial stones which commemorate...
Memorial stones are objects of veneration for the Hindu community in Tharparkar. In Mithi taluka, these memorial stones are found...
Like other talukas in the Tharparkar district, the landscape of Mithi is also dotted with memorial stones of various lineages...
There are many rock art sites in Gadap taluka in Karachi which I discovered during my research in the area...
My several years of fieldwork from 2000 to 2020 in Darel and Tangir in Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan have revealed...
In literature, Existentialism starts from Dostoyevsky’s famous maxim...
A court in Lahore has sentenced a young...
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