The skyline of Kot Fateh (Fatehjang Tehsil) is marked by the splendid domes of a mosque built somewhere around 1890. Sardar Fateh Khan was the notable chief of the area during the…
Month: July 2010
Kashmir News – Frustration mounts among Unemployed in Gilgit Baltistan
Gilgit, January 19: Pakistan has been in a quagmire in 2009. Worse even for the people of Occupied Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan. Coming out of the shadow of a year that virtually…
The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science
Product DescriptionThe Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the…
Travels in to Bokhara Being the Account of a Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia: Also, Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus from the Sea
Product DescriptionAlexander Burnes undertook his voyage, which lasted 3 years, from 1831-1833. Journeying up the Indus River, he plotted the course of the river and made his way to Lahore. He was…
Modernity and Tradition: Contemporary Architecture in Pakistan
Product DescriptionThis book explores contemporary issues of development and design relevant to cultures in transition. It challenges criteria for “progress” as measured in terms of material quantities, and argues that any assessment…
Relief operation for Ata Abad IDPs at Hunza
Relief operation at college ground at Aliabad, Hunza by volunteers and Boy Scouts, supplying food and other necessary items to IDPs and for the people of Gojal who are suffering due blockade…
Narrative of the Campaign of the Indus in Sind and Kaubool in 1838-9
Product DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:…
How to Find a Middle School Science Fair Project Idea
If you have been racking your brain and trying in vain to find a workable middle school science project idea, your search will only become more difficult trying to find the ultimate…
German scholar?s plea to set up rock art of karakorums, museums
The noted German archaeologist and head of the Pak-German Project, Harald Hauptmann, has called for making all efforts to preserve the ancient rock art of GilgitBaltistan. He made this appeal during a…
Sadika’s Way: A Novel of Pakistan and America
Product Description The clock had started ticking for Sadika from the day she was born into her traditional Pakistani village family. She must be married off to somebody while she is still…
Revisiting Indus-Sarasvati Age and Ancient India
Product DescriptionPapers presented at International Conference on Revisiting Indus-Sarasvati Age & Ancient India, held in Atlanta, Oct., 4-6, 1996. Buy This book from Amazon Now! Shipping in Pakistan & Round the world…