Khyber steam track which once used to take tourists across the Khyber pass are now abandand this is an interesting image taken by Mr. Iqbal Goraya of Nai Baat newspaper. Picture shows a local sleeping on the tracks using one of the iron tracks as a pillow.
Month: February 2012
Pakistani filmmake Sharmeen Obaid becomes the first Oscar Award Winner
Pakistani film producer who was in the lime light of media recently due to her nomination for Oscar has finally won the prestigious Oscar Award for her documentary film “Saving Face”. Sharmeen Chinoy was presenented this award at the 84th Oscar Award ceramony. She has become the first Pakistani to…
Historical significance of Chaukundi Highlighted
KARACHI, Feb 25: Speakers threw light on the significance of preserving historical monuments in general and Chaukandi tombs in particular at the first national conference of Chaukandi graveyard/monuments at the site of the historical graveyard on Saturday. The moot was presided over by provincial culture minister Sassui Palijo while provincial…
Chakwals oldest cultural fair defies modernism
CHAKWAL: Feb 19: A bull show, locally called Jalsa, held in a village here the other day provided much-needed excitement and recreation to the local people. Talagang Road leading to the Mureed village witnessed an unusual flow of traffic. There were trucks loaded with bulls, and people travelling on tractors,…
Wazir Khan Mosque rediscovered – Book on architecture launched
ISLAMABAD: Wazir Khan Mosque was rediscovered Friday at the National Art Gallery when Memoona Khan introduced her book she had written on its ancient architecture. The associate professor, author and chairperson at fine arts department Government Postgraduate College Rawalpindi Memoona Khan had named her book Wazir Khan Mosque (Rediscovered) and…
Anarkali Myth, Mystry and history
njoying the rich architecture and the cultural-historical treasures of Lahore, one cannot help being awed by the grandeur and the mystery of a Mughal-era tomb’s pale-white dome situated inside the south-western boundary wall of the Punjab Civil Secretariat. The tomb is known as the last abode of the celebrated romantic…
Conserving wetlands thrugh tourism
By Nasir Ali Panhwar IN areas of natural attractions, eco-tourism is often used as the primary justification for developing hotels/ motels and other facilities, mainly because of its socio-economic benefits. If ecotourism can be made more effective by involving local inhabitants in tourism activities. Usually, rural populations living closest to…
Rare Indus Seal discovered at archeological site in Cholistan
LAHORE, Feb 6: The Punjab University’s archaeology department has discovered a rare Indus seal in steatite material with carved figure of an Ibex with two pictographs from the archeological site of Wattoowala in Cholistan desert, during a survey of different sites near Derawar Fort along the ancient bed of River…
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