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It is the early morning when the sun is rising from its back and very beautiful cool winter light is lighting up the pillars.
Its the picture of historical Chuburgee Garden Lahore. The Garden was constructed during the Mughal era.
Iqbal Academy Pakistan was established in 1951, under the administrative authority of the Education Department of the Central Government of Pakistan in Karachi. After a few years, when the capital of Pakistan shifted to Islamabad, the government decided to shift Iqbal Academy from Karachi to Lahore, as Allama Muhammad Iqbal, under whose name the academy is titled, belongs to Lahore. In 1976 the Iqbal Academy shifted to 116-McLeod Road, Lahore (old residence of Allama Muhammad Iqbal), and the Federal Government of Pakistan gifted a piece of land at a major estate in Lahore behind Avari Hotels and opposite to Faletti's Hotel, to build a state-of-the-art building named Aiwan-e-Iqbal, a monument and memorial in tribute to Allama Muhammad Iqbal. In 1996 the building formerly inaugurated by Prime Minister of Islamic Republic of Pakistan Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and Iqbal Academy also shifted to the sixth floor of Aiwan-e-Iqbal. Iqbal Academy Library is one of the oldest and richest libraries in the world that have specialized in Iqbal Studies. Its collection of books on Iqbal studies and related subjects cover the major international languages as well as the regional languages of Pakistan. The back files of important and rare periodicals augment its book holdings. It not only provides academic logistics support to the research projects of the Academy but also extends research and reference facilities to a large number of students, teachers and Iqbal scholars every year.
A Pakistani man walks past posters of former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-N party chief Nawaz Sharif, displayed on his party's office building in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, May 12, 2013. Sharif declared victory following a historic election marred by violence Saturday, a remarkable comeback for a leader once toppled in a military coup and sent into exile. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
The Badshahi Mosque is a Mughal era mosque in Lahore, capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab. The mosque is located west of Lahore Fort along the outskirts of the Walled City of Lahore, and is widely considered to be one of Lahore's most iconic landmarks.
Badshahi Mosque was commissioned by Emperor Aurangzeb in 1671, with construction of the mosque lasting for two years until 1673. The mosque is an important example of Mughal architecture, with an exterior that is decorated with carved red sandstone with marble inlay. It remains the largest and most recent of the grand imperial mosques of the Mughal-era, and is the second-largest mosque in Pakistan. After the fall of the Mughal Empire, the mosque was used as a garrison by the Sikh Empire and the British Empire, but is now one of Pakistan's most iconic sights.