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Edit Dawn 06 Jun 2016
A view of the Badshahi Mosque from the Sheesh Mahal.Arif Mahmood, White Star ... A view of the old city from a minaret of the Badshahi Mosque ... A long coil of concertina wire snakes down disconcertingly from the middle of the entrance staircase of the Badshahi Mosque to Hazuri Bagh preventing access to Allama Iqbal’s mausoleum ... The popular Andaaz Restaurant , located across the street from the Badshahi Mosque ....

All you need to know about holy month of Ramadan

Edit Indian Express 06 Jun 2016
Pakistanis wash the courtyard of the historical Badshahi Mosque in preparation for the upcoming Muslim month of Ramadan in Lahore ... The faithful spend the month of Ramadan in mosques for evening prayers known as “taraweeh,” while free time during the day is often spent reading the Quran and listening to religious lectures....

Pakistan’s ideological project: A history

Edit Dawn 20 Mar 2016
Genesis. Pakistan came into being in August 1947 on the back of what its founders called the ‘Two Nation Theory.’ ... This is what we today understand to be the ‘Pakistan Movement.’ ... There were almost as many Muslims (if not more) in India than there were in the newly created Muslim-majority country of Pakistan ... Dhaka, East Pakistan ... Eid prayers at Lahore’s Badshahi Mosque (1959) ... Between the Mosque & Military (Carneige, 2010) p.43....

Pakistan: A people’s journey

Edit Dawn 11 Mar 2016
Genesis. Pakistan came into being in August 1947. It was the result of a movement in British India for the creation of a separate Muslim-majority state. The movement was navigated by lawyer and politician, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and his All India Muslim League (AIML) ... The Muslim League became the new country’s first ruling party ... Birth pangs ... Stability, growth, implosion ... Eid prayers at Lahore’s historic Badshahi Mosque (1967) ... 2008 ... ....

Prophetic words and Wazir Khan’s tilting minarets

Edit Dawn 23 Feb 2016
There is little doubt in the minds of the people of Lahore that the grand mosque built in 1634-35AD inside Delhi Gate by Sheikh Ilmuddin Ansari of Chiniot, better known as Wazir Khan, is the most exquisite and beautiful one in the city ... Last Sunday with a group of LUMS students specialising in the history of Lahore, we went to the mosque ... Much later the Moghal emperor Aurangzeb built Badshahi Mosque that became the city’s Jamia Mosque....

Keller pastor witnesses a historica decree by Muslims to protect Christians against terrorism

Edit Topix 05 Feb 2016
NorthWood Church Senior Pastor Bob Roberts was in Morocco last week when Muslims leaders signed a declaration to protect Christians against terrorist attacks. NorthWood Church Pastor Bob Roberts, center, shown with Father James Channan of Pakistan and Grand Imam Syed Muhammad of the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, during a faith forum in Keller last summer ... ....

Pakistan by bus: all aboard Lahore’s sightseeing double-decker

Edit The Guardian 18 Jan 2016
In Lahore, Pakistan’s first open-top bus tour has launched as part of a wider project to promote tourism in the region to foreign visitors ... “We’re surprised something good is happening in Pakistan.”. Twitter ... the Badshahi Mosque is the world’s fifth largest; the Unesco-listed Lahore Fort is an exemplary piece of Mughal architecture; the Minar-e-Pakistan was built to commemorate the establishment of Pakistan in 1947 ... Twitter ... Related ... ....

Plan to build intercity bus terminals on city outskirts

Edit Dawn 30 Nov 2015
LAHORE ... The plan to construct three intercity terminals was envisaged in 2012 after the World Bank expressed grave concern over an environmental impact on important heritage sites (Lahore Fort, Walled City, Badshahi Mosque, Minar-i-Pakistan, etc) due to the Badami Bagh Bus Terminal ... Intra-city bus terminal near city railway station ... With the inclusion of this piece of land, we will have around 315 kanals in total,” the official said ... ....

Plan to build intercity bus terminals on Lahore outskirts

Edit Dawn 30 Nov 2015
LAHORE ... The plan to construct three intercity terminals was envisaged in 2012 after the World Bank expressed grave concern over an environmental impact on important heritage sites (Lahore Fort, Walled City, Badshahi Mosque, Minar-i-Pakistan, etc) due to the Badami Bagh Bus Terminal ... Intra-city bus terminal near city railway station ... With the inclusion of this piece of land, we will have around 315 kanals in total,” the official said ... ....

Harking back: The last stab to the heritage of a betrayed princess

Edit Dawn 08 Nov 2015
‘Eyes that pierce and then withdraw,. Like a blood-stained sword, eyes with dagger lashes!. Zealots, you are mistaken – this is heaven. Never mind those making promises of the afterlife.’ ... One cannot but be angry to see an ‘Orange Dragon’ of an alien land dig up the last gateway of her lost garden ... I speak of her loved Chauburji ... He built her grave in her garden while she was alive and imprisoned, and he built the Badshahi Mosque ... Poem ... ....

Civil society urges govt to change Orange Line route

Edit Dawn 03 Nov 2015
LAHORE ... She said although no demolition of any heritage site was in sight except a five-foot portion of the veranda of the GPO building, the problem was the close distance between the monuments and proposed track ... The Metro Bus Project has already separated Lahore into two parts besides hindering view of the Lahore Fort, Minar-i-Pakistan, Badshahi Mosque,” deplored Lahore Conservation Society Information Secretary Prof Ajaz Anwar ... ....

Orange Line may hinder view of Chauburji, Shalamar

Edit Dawn 02 Nov 2015
LAHORE. The Lahore Orange Line Metro Train Project is likely to affect view of two major monuments of the city -- Chauburji and Shalamar Gardens ... He also said construction of the Metro Bus System had already blocked view of the shrine of Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh, Lahore Fort, Badshahi Mosque, Minar-i-Pakistan and clock tower of the Government College University ... The Unesco director visited the site and expressed concern over the move ... ....

217 Pakistani pilgrims tracked in Saudi Arabia; 85 missing

Edit The Himalayan 28 Sep 2015
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