DID you know that there?s a Kamla Nehru Road in Karachi? Who?s Kamla Nehru? Well, the wife of Jawaharal Nehru and mother of Indira Gandhi, both former prime ministers of India. If you?ve been to the Quaid-i-Azam?s mausoleum, on its right where the famous Guru Mandir bus stop is situated,…
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Floods also ravage cultural heritage – Dawn
History?s worst flood has spared nothing that has come in its way. From Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and GilgitBaltistan all along to Sindh sweeping across southern Punjab the surging force of the waters has destroyed vast tracts of habitation, farmlands, public infrastructure and even the centuries? old remains of our civilization -monuments,…
Simple and symbolic Parsi Temple in Karachi
Written by By Peerzada Salman for DAWN. “If you burn thyself, there will be light every where you go” MAKE no mistake! No single group of people contributed more to the development and refinement of pre-1947 Karachi than the Parsi community. Be it Jamshed Nusserwanji or Kawasji Hormasji Katrak, be…
Greed eats into mighty Margallas
ISLAMABAD, Aug 15: Explosions announced the sunset around Wah on Sunday evening. The booms sent birds fluttering and visitors along a roadside restaurant on G.T. Road wondered what had happened. ?Every dawn and every sunset sounds like this. Stone crushers use dynamites to cut deeper into the hills,? said a…
Mystery of Islamabad?s ancient cupules
THE antiquity of Islamabad can be seen in the prehistoric and proto-historic rock carvings found in Bagh Jogian, Sain, Phulgran, Bobri, Gumbat and Peja. These consist in cup markings and geometrical patterns. There are some petroglyphs depicting animals.The cup marks are also known as cupules. These are hemispherical, cup shaped,…
Trip to lalusar – A dangerous journey for a beautiful sight
?Quick! Jump and save your life,? were the last words the students of the Wah Engineering College heard that fatal day on June 19. On their way to join an excursion team at Lalusar Lake, a mistake by the jeep?s driver plunged the vehicle into the ferocious Kunhar River, killing…
Sindhi poet Madhosh passes away
DADU, June 26: Popular poet Ahmed Khan Madhosh died in a Karachi hospital on Saturday after a prolonged fight with cancer. He was 79. He leaves behind two sons and four daughters to mourn his death. Madhosh was admitted to the intensive care unit of the Sindh Institute of Urology…
KCCI or Karachi Indian Merchants Association Building A fabulous example of Anglo-Mughal Architecture
Muslims in India had a great contribution in literature and art, there are also some architecture wonders made by pre-partition Muslims in India. The very term Anglo Moghul is a school of architectural design which mixed the Muslim and English Gothic architecture. Here is an article published in daily Dawn…
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