This might seem obvious to some, sorry, but for someone residing outside of Pakistan, what sort of options are available for accessing governmental and news archives of Pakistan? Say i wanted to hunt out particular news articles from 1960-1976 from Pakistani newspapers and governmental records, (the issue would be around political appointments). There’s a National Archives of Pakistan located in Islamabad, but i couldn’t find a website of theirs on the 'net (or didn’t try hard enough most likely). Is there any way to access these sorts of archives materials via the internet for those residing outside of Pakistan? Is there anyone who works with these Archives departments whom i could e-mail and pester for help?
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I am not aware of any online database for pakistan, even if there was one im sure it wouldnt be useful
You can email who ever you want, but getting a response will be difficult. Anyway ill try to help. Here are a few possible contacts.
National Fund for Cultural Heritage : [email protected]
Associated Press Pakistan : [email protected]
Overseas Pakistani Association : [email protected]
A list of Pakistani Schooling contacts : http://www.fbise.edu.pk/contact.html
a misc link ,apparently Pakistan’s Database Authority : http://www.nadra.gov.pk/
As always…when trying to contact pakistani agencies…I wish you luck!
You can also try out the library of LUMS. Although I’m not sure, whether they’d have the records so far back, but you could just try.
i found a database of dawn articles upto 1995…but nothing further back than that. amazingly its from the Univ of Virginia!
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/SouthAsia/SAserials/Dawn/dawn.html
HSKhan and Umer, you guys are awesome. Thank you. i'll try with the e-mail addresses/websites you guys gave, Insha'Allah something will come out. If it does, i'll let you know in this thread.
Very helpful of you two, thanks so much.