Tag: mosque

There is an abundance of myths and superstitious beliefs around the Subcontinent. In Pakistan, many of these beliefs revolve around ...

There are many historical villages in Talagnag tehsil in Chakwal district. One such village is Singwala, which is located about ...

I visited many shrines in different villages and towns during my research on female saints in Pothohar. During the research, ...

It’s been 21 years since al-Qaeda terrorists carried out 9/11. To what extent can that be traced back to a ...

Fim Kassar village is located about 3 km west of Dhudial town in Chakwal district. This village is famous for ...

Shikarpur’s historical mosques and Sufi tombs are noted for their distinctive features. Portals, wooden doors, windows, ceilings and mihrabs were ...

A massive explosive tore through a Kabul mosque on Wednesday leaving scores dead. The explosion occurred while evening prayers were ...

Not much has been written on the Jamia mosque of Lakhidar. A few scholars gave passing remarks in their articles ...

There are many historical mosques and shrines in Shikarpur, a majority of which have now been either renovated or rebuilt. ...

Shikarpur district is home to many Sufi shrines. One such shrine belongs to Mian Muhammad Jami. Over three dozen books ...

There are Sufi shrines in almost every old locality of Rawalpindi which belong to different Sufi orders. A few of ...

In an India that gives an increasingly dystopian appearance, a storm of communal upheaval is gusting towards the Muslim community, ...

Hardline Hindu nationalist outfits have petitioned courts in Uttar Pradesh (UP) state, calling for Muslims to be prevented from entering ...

During my frequent visits to the villages and towns of Pothohar to document painted murals for my forthcoming book Wall ...

@shabanashaukat4 recently tweeted that a prayer leader at a mosque in Kanganpur, District Kasur, announced that a mother had left ...

Sukkur is my beautiful hometown, and I am deeply in love with it. The city is situated on the right ...

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

Warning Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmad and Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah of dire consequences, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Sindh Secretary ...

Monuments of the Gakhars, who ruled Pothohar in Punjab are found in many towns and villages of the region. The ...

In his hugely influential book Orientalism (1978), Edward Said — a founder of ‘post-colonial studies’ — demonstrated how the West ...

Pakistan is famously rich in history and culture, especially when we talk about monuments and historical places. Landmarks and shrines ...

The story told here is of my father; an individual representing the lives of an entire generation on both sides ...

My several years of fieldwork from 2000 to 2020 in Darel and Tangir in Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan have revealed ...

A court in Lahore has ordered the arrest of actress Saba Qamar and singer Bilal Saeed for failing to appear ...

In 1947, as the British left the Indian Subcontinent, having divided it into two countries, many Indians and Pakistanis couldn’t ...