Heritage

I began my education in Gujrat in 1957 in a Municipal Corporation Primary School (a tat school) located near Islamia...

Chak is a small town in Lakhi Ghulam Shah taluka in the Shikarpur district, which is noted for some of...

Tent pegging, as the name suggests, is a sport of the cavaliers. It is an equestrian sport of removing wooden...

Pothohar is located in the middle of the country, encompassing all the districts that lie between the Margalla Hills and...

Modern-day Pakistani society is suffering from crises like terrorism, extremism, intolerance and polarisation. In this context, a cultural festival with...

This author spent his formative years within the walled city of Lahore. Recently, he visited Shah Alam Market on an...

There are a few historical cemeteries in Garhi Yasin taluka in the Shikarpur district where there are buried Kalhora-period (1700-1783)...

A Hindu temple dated to the 7th Century AD at Kafirkot in Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP)...

Amrot Sharif is a historical village in Garhi Yasin taluka in the Shikarpur district. It is located about 9 km...

The history of Punjab can be traced in the pre-Islamic era from the Indus valley civilisation to the Hindu Shahi...

Shikarpur is the home of a number of shrines of Sufis and saints that belong to various Sufi orders. Three...

There are many historic villages and towns in the Shikarpur district which are noted for historical monuments, a majority of...

Islamabad is a modern city, but its antiquity goes back to prehistoric times, about two million years before the present....

Erasing Histories and the Formation of Narratives When the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan was ousted in the...

There are several villages in the Shikarpur district which are famous for magnificent Maaris (mansions) that were mainly built during...

In the long moments that divided a country into two, lives, dreams, families and parchments of history seemed to have...

The Gandhara civilisation existed in the north-eastern part of Pakistan and south-western part of Afghanistan: it was known as land...

There are many historical mosques in the Talagang district which are noted for their distinctive architectural features. However, the oldest...

The Pakistani cultural heritage is known to be very diverse, and its essential elements are folk legacies and tangible symbols....

Sindh is a hub of cultural heritage as it was ruled by various dynasties in the past, from the pre-Islamic...

Aurangabad is a historical village in Jand tehsil in Attock district. It is located about 5 km south of Rangli...

In Pakistan, there are a number of objects and spaces of very old times that are living and – even...

Like other tehsils of the Attock district, Fateh Jang tehsil is also home to many historical mosques which were built...

Sohawa tehsil in Jhelum is host to several old stone-built structures. Among these, some mosques are quite prominent. They are...

Avalokiteshvara is the Bodhisattva of compassion, who is also known by his Sanskrit name Padmapani: the lotus bearer. He is...

I have been doing research on the culture and heritage of Pothohar since 1998, when I was a student of...