GANISH, a beautiful village in Hunza valley in Gilgit-Baltistan, is famous for its rich history, splendid wooden mosques, impressive village guest house, imposing towers that mark the landscape. It is situated on the right bank of Hunza River and is one of the oldest settlements of the valley. ?Ganish has…
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Karachi City Station Building – Keeping track of history
APART from a halted train, there are two dogs on the platform: one emaciated and black as night, the other tawny and reasonably well-fed. They freely roam around the City Station premises, occasionally having a quick kip near the ticket counter, oblivious to the arriving and departing passengers. As if…
The Neem Tree becomes Sindh’s official Tree
KARACHI: A long struggle by environmentalists and nature conservationists paid dividends on Tuesday when the Sindh government declared Neem (Azadirachta indica), a tree with medicinal properties, as the official tree of the province. The decision was announced through a notification issued by the Sindh chief secretary. Environmentalists have welcomed the…
Historical Sites in Lasbela Balochistan
Like other districts of Balochistan, Lasbela is host to a number of historical and archaeological sites among which, the necropolis of the Jams of Lasbela is quite prominent. Located some eight kilometers away from Lasbela at Bara Bagh, there are tombs of the former rulers of Lasbela. This necropolis contains…
Mangroves of Karachi
Geographically, Pakistan has a varied landscape which includes glaciers, mountains, plateaus, plains, deserts and coastlines. The mighty Indus, which flows from the Himalayan glaciers, after irrigating plains of Punjab and Sindh, merges into the Arabian Sea, forming a delta which is both rich in history and biodiversity. Tahir Qureshi, Director…
Victoria Cross and the missing tombstones in Lahore
Following article appeared in Daily Dawn of 11th April 2010 article is written by By Majid Sheikh courtesy Daily Dawn MANY years ago, I was sitting at a leather book binding shop just off Rattigan Road when I noticed that the stone slab the binder was using as his base…
The Hindu Bahi Building in Sarafa Bazaar Karachi
This article was written by Peerzada Salman for daily Dawn Karachi If you have weak navigation skills, make sure you?re with someone who has an elephant?s memory. Reason: once you enter a lane, you don?t know where it will end or what course it will take with the next turn….
The lost seers around Nila Gumbad
LAST week it took me four trips to explore the area around the famous Nila Gumbad mausoleum to arrive at a picture of a few famous seers that Lahore has, that Lahore ignores, and those that Lahore has lost. My search began when for the last one month I had…
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