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Desi Kushti Akhara - Wrestling Pit in Lahore.
See also:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsfD_UTMvEg
kushtiwrestling.blogspot.com/2010/07/wrestling-at-akhara-...
There are a lot of motorcycles in Lahore. And Pakistani men are okay with sharing their bike with another guy.
The vegetable Market in Pakistan started after the partition of British India in 1947. Initially it was situated in Gowalmandi, Lahore but later on shifted to Ravi link Road in 1969 due to expansion and lots of people coming to this business. Soon it became the main vegetable market of Pakistan. It is spread over almost 9 Acres of land.
Vegetable Market has 3 more branches in Lahore, Singhpura Market, Multan Chungi Market and Gaju Matta Market.
Lahore.
2nd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment.
Rights info: Non commercial use accepted. Please credit to "Northampton Museums Service". Please also respect copyright by contacting the Northampton Museums Service if you wish to publish this picture.
Location of collection: Northampton Museum & Art Gallery www.northampton.gov.uk/museums
Part of: Northamptonshire Regiment Collection
Reference number: N.Regt: 1658.5. vii
Basant fever! A bit late, but who cares? Spring is here!
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(Golden Mosque) (built 1749)
The Sunehri Masjid is a relative latecomer to Lahore's traditional cityscape, having been built in 1753 during the waning years of the Mughal empire by Nawab Bhikari Khan, the Deputy of Lahore during the tenure of Governor Mir Mu'in al-Mulk Mir Munoo. It stands on a small plot of land where one street diverges into two. When Nawab Bhikari Khan acquired the property, it was a vacant parcel of land at the chowk (square) of Kashmiri Bazaar.
The pre-eminent architectural historian Kamil Khan Mumtaz is highly critical of the design, writing:
"On close inspection the corruption of Mughal forms is revealed in every detail. The bulbous Mughal domes are now exaggerated into the form of grotesque vegetables capped with slender drooping leaves. The merlons have become naga hoods, and the column stalks growing out of cabbages that blossom into life-like lotuses."
People walk on a road covered by rose-petals, spread by wholesale dealers for drying purpose, in the outskirts of Lahore.
The panamax [4,250 TEU) container ship, the Lahore Express [IMO 9301811/MMSI 477241800] is photographed here departing the DPS World operated No. 4 NQ berth at Fremantle Port, Western Australia on July 4, 2015. Her next port of call was Melbourne.
The Hong Kong flagged Lahore Express was built in 2006, has a gross tonnage of 39,941 tonnes which rates her as a panamax sized container ship. She is managed out of Canada by Seaspan Ship Management Ltd and her beneficial owner is the Seaspan Corporation of China. She sails as part of the Seaspan fleet.
LAHORE:Artists performs a catwalk during the launching ceremony of Two T.V drama serials of private channel (Men-o-Salwa) and “Najiah”, event held in a local hotel
THE PGB PHOTO AWARD 2009
THIS PICTURE WAS AWARDED AS: SPORTS PICTURE STORY OF THE YEAR 1ST PRICE AND THE PICTURE IS PART OF A PORTFOLIO BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER.
PHOTO BY: EMILIO MORENATTI / AP
Caption: PAKISTANI WRESTLERS. Pakistani wrestlers fight as part of a training at the Champion Akram Pahalwan Da Khara Wrestling Club in the Old City of Lahore, Pakistan
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Minar-e-Pakistan is a tall minaret in Iqbal Park Lahore, built in commemoration of the Lahore Resolution. The minaret reflects a blend of Mughal and modern architecture, and is constructed on the site where on March 23, 1940, seven years before the formation of Pakistan, the Muslim League passed the Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Lahore), demanding the creation of Pakistan. This was the first official declaration to establish a separate homeland for the Muslims living in the subcontinent. Pakistan now celebrates this day as a national holiday each year.
The monument attracts visitors from all over Pakistan, as well as the inhabitants of the Walled City of Lahore. The large public space around the monument is commonly used for political and public meetings, whereas Iqbal Park area is ever so popular among kite-flyers.
Lahore fort Alamgeeri
Gate view.
ROYAL FORT- LAHORE
Although most parts of the Royal Fort were constructed around 1566 A.D. by the Mughal Emperor, Akbar the Great, there is evidence that a mud fort was in existence here in 1021 A.D. as well, when Mahmood of Ghazna invaded this area. Akbar demolished the old mud fort and constructed most of the modern Fort, as we see it today, on the old foundations.
The Royal Fort is rectangular. The main gates are located alongside the centre of the western and eastern walls. Every succeeding Mughal Emperor as well as the Sikhs, and the British in their turn, added a pavilion, palace or wall to the Fort. Emperor Jehangir extended the gardens and constructed the palaces that we see today in the Jehangir?s Quadrangle, while Shah-Jehan added Diwan-e-Khas, Moti Masjid (Pearl Mosque) and his own Sleeping Chambers. Aurangzeb built the impressive main gate which faces the Hazoori Bagh lying in between the Badshahi Mosque and the Fort. The Famous Sheesh Mahal or Palace of Mirrors is in the north-east corner of the Fort. This is the most beautiful palace in the Fort and is decorated with small mirrors of different colours set.
The part of the wall of the Elephant Steps towards the Fort?s inner gate are scarred by bullet marks, bearing testimony to the Sikh Civil War of 1847 A.D.
The Sleeping Chamber of Mai Jindan houses a very interesting museum with relics from Mughal and the Sikh periods.