Tag: history
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400-year-old tunnel discovered during restoration at Lahore Fort
According to The Express Tribune, the tunnel discovered at the opulently designed Mughal fort — that already houses over 20 key monuments — is still firmly in place. The 625-feet tunnel is well ventilated and lighted, and consists of niches that have been made for lighting lamps. As per the opinion of experts, the tunnel…
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1st century murals discovered from Buddhist site in Swat
Intact murals dating back to the 1st century have been discovered from a Buddhist site in Swat, Dawn News has reported. Saqib Raza, who was leading the team of archaeologists on the site, while speaking about the murals said: “We have discovered some rare fresco paintings belonging to the first century from the Abbasahib-China Buddhist…
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Archaeologists find evidence of third-century settlement in Sindh
Researchers from Shah Abdul Latif University’s Department of Archeology have found traces of a third-century settlement in Brahmanabad, Sindh. Brahmanabad is believed to have been set up in the eighth-century by Muhammad Bin Qasim. The area was the historical capital of the Muslim Caliphate in Sindh during the eighth century, under the Umayyad Caliphate and…
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Pakistan’s ‘last’ storytellers
Mohammad Naseem’s eyes shine while he shares the legend of a remote, alpine lake nestled among snow-capped Himalayan peaks as a rare crowd of onlookers hears one of Pakistan’s last ‘storytellers’. The story of Saif-ul-Malook — the winding saga of a brave prince who falls in love with a fairy — is just one of…
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VIDEO: Shaheen Afridi scripts history with four wickets in four balls
Pakistan’s young and talented paceman Shaheen Afridi has scripted history by claiming four wickets in four balls. During Sunday’s Vitality Blast — professional Twenty20 cricket competition for English and Welsh first-class counties — fixture between Hampshire and Middlesex, the left-arm pacer took a wicket with each of his last four balls as he finished with…
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Banning books
German poet Heinrich Heine once warned, “Where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people.” In Pakistan’s case, we may not be burning books, but we are banning them. From banning online apps to games, from media censorship to censoring books, Pakistan is on a downward spiral. According to Geo, the Punjab Curriculum…
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PK8303 — not the first: Timeline of major Pakistani air crashes
At least 97 people have been killed after an Airbus A320 passenger airliner crashed into a residential neighbourhood while on approach to the airport in Karachi. Only two male passengers of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight PK8303 from Lahore to Karachi survived the crash that wasn’t the first in Pakistan’s history, and, unfortunately, might…