Re: Pakistan - A History in photographs
This picture reminds me of Umro Ayyaar. 
He looks cool.
Re: Pakistan - A History in photographs
Why does the Badshahi mosque look dilapidated and the towers/spires missing the top parts ?
Year and place, please.
Badshahi Mosques (1864) looks so as it had gone through the rule of Ranjeet Singh, who initaially used mosque as stable for horses.
Madam's pic with baday Ghulam Ali might be from Mid 1950s when Bade Ghulam Ali probably did some music for the movie 'Koyal'
Re: Pakistan - A History in photographs
This picture reminds me of Umro Ayyaar. :D He looks cool.
This is the typical style followed in early 1900 by Ahraris and it reminded me Johar brothers
Re: Pakistan - A History in photographs
Mukhi House, Hyderabad Sindh ( A building by owned by a Sindhi Hindu - Mr Mukhi prior partition) . So Yukta Mukhi is a Sindhi 
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Few more years to go and indus river dolphin will be a history.
Btw who is yukta mukhi?
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Few more years to go and indus river dolphin will be a history. Btw who is yukta mukhi?
Miss World 1999.
Re: Pakistan - A History in photographs
Badshahi Mosques (1864) looks so as it had gone through the rule of Ranjeet Singh, who initaially used mosque as stable for horses.
Madam's pic with baday Ghulam Ali might be from Mid 1950s when Bade Ghulam Ali probably did some music for the movie 'Koyal'
Were the tops never built or were they destroyed ?
Wasn't BaRRAy Ghulam Ali living in India after partition ? Was he visiting Pakistan ? I didn't know he did any music in Pakistan.
This is the typical style followed in early 1900 by Ahraris and it reminded me Johar brothers
Who are Ahraris ?
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I have seen this building as background for na’at recitation videos on TV, recently.
Oh acha, there are some censored pics too 
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Here is what Wiki says about the situation of masjid during Sikh and English periods:
Mosque under Sikh rule (1799–1849) On 7 July 1799, the Sikh militia of the Sukerchakia chief, Ranjit Singh, took control of Lahore.[SUP][4]](Badshahi Mosque - Wikipedia)[/SUP] After the capture of the city, the Badshahi Mosque was severely damaged when Ranjit Singh used its vast courtyard as a stable for his armies horses and its 80 hujras (small study rooms surrounding the courtyard) as quarters for his soldiers and as magazines for military stores. Ranjit Singh used the Hazuri Bagh, the enclosed garden next to the Mosque as his official royal court of audience.[SUP][5]](Badshahi Mosque - Wikipedia)[/SUP]
In 1841, during the Sikh civil war, Ranjit Singh’s son, Sher Singh, used the Mosque’s large minarets for placement of zamburahs or light guns, which were placed atop the minarets to bombard the supporters of the Sikh Maharani Chand Kaur taking refuge in the besieged Lahore Fort, inflicting great damage to the Fort itself. In one of these bombardments, the Fort’s Diwan-e-Aam (Hall of Public Audience) was destroyed (it was subsequently rebuilt by the British but never regained its original architectural splendour).[SUP][6]](Badshahi Mosque - Wikipedia)[/SUP] During this time, Henri De la Rouche, a French cavalry officer employed in the army of Sher Singh,[SUP][7]](Badshahi Mosque - Wikipedia)[/SUP] used a tunnel connecting the Badshahi Mosque to the Lahore Fort to temporarily store gunpowder.[SUP][8]](Badshahi Mosque - Wikipedia)[/SUP]
Mosque under British rule (1858–1947) When the British took control of Lahore in 1846, they continued the Sikh practice of using the Mosque and the adjoining Fort as a military garrison. The 80 cells (hujras) built into the walls surrounding the Mosque’s vast courtyard on three sides were originally study rooms, which were used by the Sikhs under Ranjit Singh to house troops and military stores. The British demolished them so as to prevent them from being used for anti-British activities and rebuilt them to form open arcades or dalans, which continue to this day.[SUP][6]](Badshahi Mosque - Wikipedia)[/SUP]
Here you go for the detail of pic
From left: Ustad Barkat Ali Khan, Noor Jehan, Munawar Ali Khan (son of Bade Ghulam Ali Khan sahib), Bade Ghulam Ali Khan sahib, Karamat Ali Khan (Khan sahib’s eldest son), Khadim Hussain (Khan sahib’s cousin, father-in-law of Munawar Bhai and a great cricketer). Probably the picture was taken in the late 1950s after Munawar’s wedding in Karachi.
Noor JahanPortrait of a Female Indo-Pakistani Artist
The Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam,[SUP][6]](Majlis-e Ahrar-e Islam - Wikipedia)[/SUP] were a short lived separatist political movement who were former Khilafat movement. They differed with the Indian National Congress over certain issues and afterwards announced the formation of their party in a meeting at Lahore in 1931.
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A group of hippies (British, French and American) wait for a bus in Lahore (1972). Pakistan was an important destination on what was called the ‘Hippie Trail.’
The trail was used by thousands of young European and American backpackers between the late 1960s and 1979. It was an overland route that began in Turkey, ran through Iran, curved into Afghanistan and Pakistan and then from India ended in Nepal.
A huge tourist industry sprang up in these countries to accommodate the backpackers. In Pakistan, the travelers entered Peshawar (from Jalalabad in Afghanistan). From Peshawar they went to Lahore. Some took a bus into India while others visited Karachi and Swat before returning to Lahore and crossed into India.
The trail closed after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran; the beginning of civil war in Afghanistan; and due to the reactionary nature of the Ziaul Haq dictatorship that came to power in Pakistan in 1977.
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Two hippie tourists at a tea shop in Sibi, Balochistan, in 1972. .
Today, traveling to a Baloch town like the one in the picture has become a no-go area even for Pakistanis!
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Prime Minister, Z A. Bhutto, relaxing with his daughters, Sanam (left) and Benazir (back), at their residence in Clifton, Karachi (1973).
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Sister of the Shah of Iran arrives at the Quetta Airport (1973). She was greeted by the then Balochistan governor, Mir Ghaos Baksh Beznjo, who belonged to the left-wing National Awami Party (NAP) that headed the government in Balochistan (after the 1970 election).
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I’m at exact place right now