13 of the Most Delicious Desi Food Items From Lahore that You Probably Don’t Know About. We hear a lot about the growing trend of “fine dining” restaurants or the exquisite cuisine from all over the world being offered in Lahore. Maybe the transformation of yet another rooftop into an overly priced establishment with shining chinaware has caught your fancy? What we seem to forget in all this is the true essence of Lahore which…
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A powerful image can take us back in time, and give us a better understanding of who we are and where we come from. The Express Tribune has compiled 59 images that have shocked, inspired, and moved us as a nation. Enjoy. August 1947 – Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi As slogans of “Quaid-e-Azam Zindabad! Pakistan Zindabad!” echoed, Jinnah along with his sister, Fatima Jinnah, on August 7, 1947, landed in Karachi — a…
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Pakistan’s Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Major General Sher Ali Khan visited forward areas to see the troops and meet old comrades. Here his is seen with Lt Gen Bakhtiar Rana and Maj Gen Abrar Hussain (1st and 2nd from Right) (6-12-1965) Mr. Nur-ul-Amin, leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, with some of the gallantary award winners of the East Bangal Regiment whom he visited recently in a forward area in west Pakistan (7-12-1965). General…
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An operational tank squadron of the Pakistan Army equipped with the Indian tanks (French-built AMXs) captured in the chhamb battle, out on manoeuvers. Eyes fixed on the ‘target’ a Mujahid on guard at a post in Azad Kasmir Area. Major General (now Lieut General and Deputy C-in-C) Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan, GCC of a Division, is explaining a situation of Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan during one of his visits to the forward areas. Also…
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1. Zahra Afridi This Hardcore Interior Designer runs her own company with her latest project being the Classic Rock Coffee Café in Islamabad. She also happens to have kick-boxing training, which is a very unconventional field for Pakistani women to be in. Are all the Afridis this talented? 2. Sana Mir Pakistan’s Women’s National Cricket Team Captain. She gave up her admission in an engineering degree to pursue this passion. 3. Samina Baig First Pakistani…
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01. Ocean Towers: It is the tallest building of Pakistan consists of 30 floors having height of almost 120m. This building is situated in Karachi, Pakistan. 02. MCB Tower: It is located in Karachi having 29 floors. It was established in 2005 whereas its height 116m. 03. Centaurus Corporate Tower: This 32 floor building was established in Islamabad in 2012 and its height is almost 116m. 04. Telecom Tower: It is a 24 floors building…
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This article examines the career of the immensely productive Sadequain Naqqash (1930-87), Pakistan’s most celebrated artist. A self-trained, larger-than-life figure, Sadequain charted a singular trajectory in enacting a paradoxical subjectivity. He remained close to national aesthetic ideologies that promoted calligraphy under the increasing Islamization of the 1970s and 1980s, yet maintained a persona that simultaneously relayed aspects of transgressive Indo-Persian Sufism into a dialogue with transnational modernism during the 1950s and 1960s in order to…
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Sadequain’s calligraphy at Lahore Museum. Sadequain’s calligraphy at Lahore Museum. Sadequain’s calligraphy at Lahore Museum. Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, Pride of Performance, Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Pakistani Awards), also often referred to as Sadequain Naqqash, was a world-renowned Pakistani artist, best known for his skills as a calligrapher and a painter. He is considered as one of the finest painters and calligraphers Pakistan has ever produced. Sadequain was responsible for the renaissance of Islamic calligraphy in Pakistan….
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