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When was the last time you visited the Lahore Museum? A very dear friend - a top art and culture person of the city ... Published 20 Sep, 2020 06:56am

The ‘capture’ of the famed diamond ‘Koh-i-Noor’ from the Afghan ruler Shah Shuja in Lahore’s Mubarak ... Published 13 Sep, 2020 06:50am

We live in an age where gender and racial differences are increasingly being questioned, and rightly so. The quantum... Published 06 Sep, 2020 07:01am

As we research different aspects of Lahore’s history, no one source provides a better look - what to speak of a... Published 30 Aug, 2020 08:34am

Have no illusions about the old walled city of Lahore – and I say this because it no longer has any walls left. It... Published 23 Aug, 2020 07:11am

How many of us have ever had a hammam experience? Yes, you might be having a daily bath in the summer, but the... Published 16 Aug, 2020 07:45am

Last Saturday (yesterday) this newspaper carried two stories next to one another. One that the Ravi Riverside ... Published 09 Aug, 2020 06:41am

After the death of Aurangzeb in 1709 and the rise of the Sikh Triumvirate (1765) is a 56-year period of utter chaos... Published 01 Aug, 2020 05:37am

The River Ravi, known thousands of years ago as the Iravati, is synonymous with the ancient Walled City of Lahore.... Published 26 Jul, 2020 07:08am

As Nepal and India ‘battle’ it out to claim ‘original’ ownership of the deity Ram, his wife Sita, and their... Published 19 Jul, 2020 06:44am

If you walk through the old walled city’s oldest gateway - the Lohari Gate - along the way a lane turns off to the... Published 05 Jul, 2020 07:03am

We know so much about the rise of the Mughals but little about their fall. We know a lot about the rise of the ... Published 28 Jun, 2020 06:55am

Very often we pass by amazing structures of historic Lahore without realising its value in the past, and how it... Published 27 May, 2020 06:34am

Every time I walk out of Mori Darwaza, I look to the right at the open ground and imagine the place where over 1,000... Published 17 May, 2020 04:53am

The engravings that decorate the mosques of Wazir Khan, as those of Begum Mariam Zamani, inside Lahore’s old ... Published 03 May, 2020 07:06am

How many of you know where Pakistan’s oldest and finest botanical garden with 6,000 herbarium varieties exists. ... Published 26 Apr, 2020 06:03am

If you ever visit Delhi Gate and plan to visit the Shahi Hammam and the mosque of Wazir Khan, both beautiful... Published 12 Apr, 2020 07:05am

Sitting to the west of the River Ravi in Shahdara is the much pillaged tomb of the Mughal emperor Jahangir. Today in... Published 29 Mar, 2020 06:45am

Every time I pass by the exquisite mosque of Mariam Zamani opposite the Lahore Fort outside Masti Gate, originally... Published 22 Mar, 2020 06:47am

In my university days it was routine for me and a friend to visit the Lahore Museum every working day. Invariably we... Published 15 Mar, 2020 06:54am