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Elite riot control police squads perform their duties in a typical lazy Lahori fashion along the Mall Road in Lahore following the attacks on Sri Lankan cricketers.
About a dozen photos or so ago, I showed the outermost gate of the three that make up the Lahore Gate (also known as the Amar Singh Gate, after Amar Singh Rathore - who was a Rajput nobleman affiliated with the royal house of Marwar, and a courtier of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in seventeenth-century). Having entered the outer gate, one turns half right and enters the second gate, visible on the left. This admits to this courtyard, still outside the forts main walls, and heavily defended from all sides. From here one continues through the third gate, between the pepper-pot towers.
A mureed (devotee) praying at Urs Madhu laal a.k.a Maila Chiraaghan (Festival of Lights), Lahore, Pakistan.
This part of the fort is closed to visitors which allows it to sit back and relax in its historical look.
Lahore Museum was originally established in 1865-66 on the site of the hall or building of the 1864 Punjab Exhibition and later shifted to its new (present) site located on The Mall, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan in 1894. Rudyard Kipling's father, John Lockwood Kipling, was one of the earliest and most famous curators of the museum. Over 250,000 admissions were registered in 2005.
The Lahore Museum was established in 1864 in Lahore on Mall Road in front of Punjab university. the current building of Lahore Museum was designed by famous architect Sir Ganga Ram.Lahore Museum is one of the biggest museum of the country.it has large collections of pre-historic and historic period. - Wikipedia
Photography by Ali Chatai
Umer's workshop has been producing hooka pipes for over 30 years. His gradfather started the business before partition. Business is not going well, there has been a 75% decrease is sales. The new generation prefer cigarettes to hooka. There used to be thirty workshops here, now there are only three remaining. He says: "in the villages there was a tradtion, we would gather around a very large hooka pipe to discuss politics, agriculture and social issues. The hook pipe brings people together." "When people smoke cigarettes they are done in 2-3 minutes. When people smoke a hooka it lasts 24 hours, it's about taking time." "if you have a problem, get a hooka, people will come and help you solve your problems."
The Badshahi Mosque (Urdu: بادشاہی مسجد, or in Persian Padshahi Masjed, meaning the 'Imperial Mosque') in Lahore, commissioned by the sixth Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1671 and completed in 1673, is the second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth largest mosque in the world. Epitomising the beauty, passion and grandeur of the Mughal era, it is Lahore's most famous landmark and a major tourist attraction.[1] It is located in Iqbal Park in Lahore, Pakistan which is one of the largest urban parks in Pakistan.
This is the site where in 1940, seven years before the formation of Pakistan, the Muslim League passed the Lahore Resolution, now the Pakistan Resolution, in which the need for a separate homeland for the Muslims from the Indian Empire under foreign rule was originally recognised
The Lahore Fort, locally referred to as Shahi Qila is citadel of the city of Lahore.The Lahore Fort is one of the greatest fort built by the Mughals in South Asia. The Fort was originally built by Malik Ayaz, later it was altered by the famous architect who created the Taj Mahal, and finally it was rebuilt by the Great Akbar, lending itself to its own distinct character, history, and flavor.
The massive doors, and great walls of Lahore Fort, include the Diwan-e-Azam, a grand throne room with a marble pavilion, and a majestic court designed for public audiences. In addition Sheesh Mahal, the Naulakha, and Moti Masjid also located within the fort speak eloquently of days gone by, a time when architecture and design was created with unparalleled detail for the pleasure of great emperors, royalty, princes, and princesses. Intricate patterns of inlaid precious stones, carvings, mosaic tiles, and murals are displayed against backgrounds of rough tiles designed with such quality, that today, they are as beautiful as the day they were created and placed.