Featured Places

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Jado Ghar / Magic Hous...

Jado Ghar / Magic House / Freemason's Hall, Charing Cross Lahore. The first Masonic Temple of the Lodge of Hope and Perseverance was built in 1859 at Anarkali, Lahore. Its site on Lodge Road is no...

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Hindustan Commercial B...

Hindustan Commercial Bank Est 1805, Gobind Ram Building - Rang Mahal, Lahore The building with the inscription 'Gobind Ram Kahan Chand' and 'Hindustan Commercial Bank Established 1805' in English ...

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Gurdwara Guru Mangat -...

Gurdwara Guru Mangat #Lahore c. 1940s Once this gurdwara used to be very close to Lahore Cantonment railway station, later Gulberg was developed around it. Guru Hargobind came here after leaving M...

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19th Century Watercolo...

Watercolour of a views of Lahore, Punjab, by an anonymous artists c. 1825-1880 Lahore has been subject to many different ruling dynasties over the centuries. As Mughal Emperor Akbar's ca...

Featured Personalities

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Maulvi Mahbub Alam - F...

Maulvi Mahbub Alam (1863-1933) - The Founder of "Paisa Akhbar" - Lahore Maulvi Mahbub Alam was born in1863, at Mauza Barhoki, tehsil Wazirabad, near Gujranwala in rustic Punjab. He had his primary...

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Allama Ala-Ud-Din Sidd...

Allama Ala-ud-din Siddiqui, was a freedom fighter, religious scholar, and educationalist who took an active part in the creation of Pakistan. He served as General Secretary of Punjab Muslim League ...

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Maharaja Ranjit Singh

Maharajah Ranjit Singh (born November 13, 1780, Gujranwala —died June 27, 1839, Lahore), founder and maharaja (1801–39) of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab., was the founder of the Sikh Empire, which...

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Kamini Kaushal: Lahore...

VIEW : Kamini Kaushal: Lahore is home — Ishtiaq Ahmed In spite of her 85 years, Kamini Kaushal was exceptionally eloquent as she shared her phenomenal down-the-memory-lane fund of stories ab...

Featured Events

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Asian Lawn Tennis Cham...

Asian Lawn Tennis Championships held in Lahore in 1958 in which players from the various countries participated which included Jamshed Akbar, Munir Pirzada, Khwaja Iftekhar, Mrs.Taqi Butt, Par...

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Martial Law At Lahore,...

During the Jalianwala Bagh incident at Amrtisar an uprising started from Lahore, Gujranawala and Kasur - A Martial Law was imposed in these cities - These photographs showing Sepoy flogging, the ga...

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March 23rd, 1940 - Lah...

The Lahore Resolution (later known as the Pakistan Resolution)  moved by Bengal Chief Minister Fazlul Haq on March 23, 1940, the 27th annual session of Muslim League under the chairmanship of ...

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Horse And Cattle Show ...

The show has been described as an eloquent expression of Pakistan's heritage and an authentic account of its agricultural and industrial achievement's. The fortress stadium, the venue of the show i...

Featured Blogs

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A 1930s Rare Video Of ...

Watch A 1930s Rare Video of Lahore

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Rare Color Footage Of ...

A 1948 Rare Footage of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Madar-e-Millat Fatima Jinnah at Lawrence Gardens - ‪&lrm;Lahore‬

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Alif Laila Book Bus - ...

Alif Laila Book Bus - A Mobile Library in Lahore To encourage literacy in Pakistan, in 1983, The Asia Foundation undertakes a major three-year project to provide "Box Libraries" throughout rural P...

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Formation Of The Paki...

PPP formation, 1967: It’s amazing how little is available by way of any visual documentation of what was perhaps one the most iconic events in the history of Pakistani politics – i.e. t...