26 Thursday Dec 2013
Chahar cheez ast tohfa-e-Multan. Gard, garma, geda-o-goristan. (With four special gifts Multan abounds. Dust, heat, beggars and burial grounds). This famous Persian saying sums up Fauzia Husain Qureshi’s journey with her book Multan – A Spiritual Legacy. And that is exactly how she described it at the book launch held on Friday [20 December] at the Royal Palm Golf and Country Club.
Read More: The Spiritual Legacy of Multan Preserved in a Book
07 Sunday Jul 2013
The Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA) has started testing a new geographical information system (GIS) to help it regulate conservation and development work at the city’s historic quarter.
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01 Saturday Jun 2013
Posted in Architecture - Pakistan
Mohammed Jahangir can remember when his friends ran through the streets of the famous Walled City of Lahore, racing past the mosques and through the markets. Then came long decades when even walking through its streets, choked by illegal construction, was hard. Now, a pioneering new restoration project has allowed the 80-year-old to glimpse once more the city of his childhood.
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