KARACHI: Popularly known as a reformer, educationist and philosopher, not many are aware that Sir Syed Ahmed Khan published an Urdu text, listing and describing several notable historical monuments in Delhi which was titled Asar-us-Sanadid...
Some of the buildings of Delhi profiled in Asar-us-Sanadid by Sir Syed are the Red Fort and the Jama Masjid...
LAHORE: Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has said that historical buildings will be utilised for promoting tourism...
In a statement issued here on Sunday, Mr Buzdar said that in order to generate resources, the government would ensure the best utilisation of public assets and historic buildings to attract tourists...
ABBOTTABAD: The provincial director of archaeology and museums, Abdus Samad, has urged the district police officer, Abbottabad, to file an FIR against the cantonment’s executive officer for demolishing the British-era historical buildings in the cantonment limits...
The letter stated that the directorate had approached so many times the Hazara commissioner and the deputy commissioner, DPO office and executive officer of the cantonment...
In February 2015, Peshawar journalist Aziz Buneri submitted a request to the KP's Right to Information Commission (RTIC) to access information on budget expenditure in Rescue 1122...
Under the Right to Information Act (RTI) Act, which was passed by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly in October 2013 to better facilitate citizens’ access to public documents and records, Buneri should have received the relevant data within 20 days of...
Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Monday formally notified the Federal Information Commission with an aim to expedite the implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) Act across the country...
Speaking to the media in Islamabad, Chaudhry said that if departments failed to provide information sought from them under the law, citizens can approach the commission, which will ensure that the requested data is released within a...
ISLAMABAD: A 20-day ‘Takht Bhai to Potohar’ exhibition was inaugurated on Tuesday at the Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) as part of a series of regional exhibitions aimed to illustrate the historical, religious and cultural diversity of Pakistan...
With a simple design and a resounding political message, Jugni Chaudhry’s rendition of the Pakistan government displays a clown seated as either the president or prime minister of...
This is the first joint exhibition by the couple at a museum in Pakistan and will remain on display for a fortnight...
Inspired by a verse by Jalaluddin Rumi, Two Wings to Fly, Not One, provides a multifaceted view of Pakistan, exploring the country’s varying narratives – political, social and historical – all of which run through the artists’ perceptive pieces...
KARACHI: A noticeable presence of Rangers personnel on the premises of Radio Pakistan just a few years after the bulk of the operations undertaken in the stone-built structure were shifted to Gulshan-i-Iqbal has raised concern about the fate of the historical building...
The Radio Pakistan staff said that the personnel of the paramilitary force, whose headquarters has been housed in the historical building of Jinnah Courts for the...
5 MAF hits the plains of Indian Punjab at Rupnagar finally entering into Pakistan north of Kasur...
4 MAF rise in Himalayan ranges of Indian administered Kashmir and Hamachal Pradesh flowing through deep gorges, bound by steep cliffs enter Azad Kashmir and Pakistan after very short runsThe friction between India and Pakistan over sharing of started on April 1,1948, when India stopped flows from Ferozepur Headworks in eastern Punjab to...
Pakistan on Saturday strongly condemned the statement of Hindu nationalist group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat's statement — in which he said "the only solution to the pain of Partition lies in undoing it" — terming it "delusional thinking and historical revisionism"...
"Reacting to the remarks, the Foreign Office, in its statement issued today, said Pakistan completely rejected the "highly provocative and...
LARKANA: The tomb of Shah Baharo, the great general of the Kalhora period, is in dire need of preservation and restoration, but the Sindh culture department’s apathy towards it persists despite the fact that under the 18th constitutional amendment it has to look after the historical site, sources said...
Houses being constructed on the historical siteHenry Cousins in his book Antiquities of Sindh has made mention of the monument and...
KARACHI: More than 1,000 historical sites in Sindh have been painstakingly documented and made part of an electronic database, which was handed over to the Sindh government at a ceremony on Tuesday...
The Heritage Foundation of Pakistan and the RWTH Aachen University of Germany have worked together for over three years to create this databank that focuses on establishing an authentic inventory of cultural sites in the province...
The severity of the crime that took place on May 24 could only be matched with extremists destroying historical monuments and artefacts in Syria and Iraq...
“The original stone wall measuring about 50ft, located in street number-1 on the eastern side of Pucca fort has been demolished through heavy machines at the instigation of builder mafia and the excavated soil has been taken away from the site covering an area of about 1,890 sq......
His latest historical mystery, Farewell, My Beautiful Motherland, is told through the eyes of a revolutionary a century ago in the final years of Ottoman rule, when the Young Turk movement sought, in vain, to reform a crumbling caliphate...
“While I remain faithful to these historical events, I seek to portray our problems now ...
Wheat consumption in Pakistan stands at 23m tonnes per annum...
Pakistan has been reaping bumper wheat crop — between 25-26m tonnes — for the last two years...