Heritage

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...

Writing in the Atlantic, Lt Gen H.R. McMaster relates how President Xi Jinping gave President Donald Trump a history lesson...

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...

What the nations of the world do in their daily lives is called culture. Culture has two types, material and...

Troy is the legendary city of Homer’s Iliad, the location of the fabled Trojan War which provided the literary bedrock...

Kallar Syedan tehsil in Rawalpindi district is home to many shrines which belong to different Sufi orders. One such Sufi...

Spring in every culture is a time of rebirth, renewal. In Washington D.C., it is when the tulips and daffodils...

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...

Nearly 400 years old, the historic Masjid Mahabat Khan in Peshawar is undergoing major renovation work to attract tourists and...

I discovered many rock art sites during my two decades’ fieldwork in Karachi and Jamshoro districts. Amongst these, the Lahut...

The story told here is without consideration of politics, bitterness or religious allegiances connected to the events that led to...

Might I start this article with a question: “Is there any thesis or art work on the Miani battle of...

Truth is stranger than fiction, wrote Mark Twain. Fiction was written within plausible facts, he went on to explain, whereas...

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....

The ‘Islamic Golden Age’ produced many remarkable scholars in science and literature. During the five-and-a-half centuries between circa 750 and...

Turkeys do not look forward to November and December. We do. Thanksgiving has long been my favourite holiday tradition in...

Like many other folk romances, the folktale of Suhni and Mehar also captured the attention of Sindhi painters, who painted...