Following is a collection of Clock Tower (ghanta ghar) images from Pakistan. Can you tell us where are they located? Once part of every major public building, Clock towers have now gone out of fashion from modern architecture. For Quiz purposes let us number following images from (1) through (9) starting from top left, then going across and then down the rows. Answers to the quiz are given at the end of this post below.
Hints: The clock Tower photos in this post are from 3 provinces of Pakistan and from 10 different cities. Some Clock Towers may have multiple images included in this post.
We want this to be an educational exercise for all therefore if we have missed any Clock Tower in the photos below then we would like to know about them. We have tried to include both standalone clock towers as well as those which are part of buildings. For Quiz purposes let us number following photo as (10).
Following 2 photos are numbered (11) and (12). Hint for (11) is the name Patras Bukhari and for (12) is Syed Hashim Raza.
Following 2 photos are numbered (13), and (14). The hint for photo (13) is that, it is the same clock tower as number (5) above and it is not located in Punjab province. Therefore if you guessed one right then you got them both correct.
Following 2 photos are numbered (15), and (16). The hint is that both clock towers are located approximately 430 km apart from eachother.
Following 2 photos are numbered (17) and (18). The hint is that they are located atleast 1300 km apart from eachother.
Following 2 photos are numbered (19) and (20). boojho to jaaneN!
Let us number the following photos as (21), (22), (23), and (24). Photo (21) is courtesy of our contributor Pervaiz Munir Alvi while Photos (22), (23) and (24) are courtesy of Roshan Malik . Photos (23) and (24) are also courtesy of Nishtar Rockers N56.
As written above, we want this to be an educational exercise for all of us, therefore feel free to let us know of any other clock towers of Pakistan which we may have missed.
Also see: Caps of Pakistan, Turbans of Pakistan, Bridges of Pakistan, Churches of Pakistan, Buildings of Pakistan, Carpets of Pakistan, Stamps of Pakistan, Coins of Pakistan
QUIZ ANSWERS:
1. Empress Market, Karachi
2. Faisalabad
3. Hyderabad
4. Merewether Tower, Karachi
5. Cunningham Tower, Peshawar
6. Punjab University, Lahore
7. Sialkot
8. Sukkur
9. Town Hall, Multan
10.Town Hall, Multan
11. Government College University, Lahore
12. KMC building, Karachi
13. Cunningham Tower, Peshawar
14. Town Hall, Multan
15. Lahore Railway Station
16. Sadiq Den High School, Bahawalpur
17. Merewether Tower, Karachi
18. Sialkot
19. Faisalabad
20. Faisalabad
21. Estcourt Tower, Gujranwala
22. Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Technology, Topi
23. Nishtar Medical College, Multan
24. Nishtar Medical College, Multan
Shahran,
You are right about pic# 16. Its Sadiq Dane Hihg School Bahawlapur.
Shahran, yes #21 is located in a city which falls under the Basmati belt of Pakistan :)
Owais,
My bad, I was looking for the exact distance and not the train distance.
21 is the place famous for high quality Basmati Rice ?
Photo number 21 is now officially added to the quiz. One more to guess guys :)
9, 10 & 14 are Ghanta Ghar Multan.
@Shahran, earlier it was municipal building but now they are planning to convert it in museum.
Shahran, I’ll comment on your answers in a bit. Let few more people try.
Karachi-Sialkot distance is ~1300 km. Exaclty 1359 km via Lahore-Narowal by rail and a little bit less via Faisalabad-Wazirabad.
Bahawalpur is around 800 km from Karachi.
I guess Rafay Sahib already guessed a number of those and I will fill him on the rest
9 and 10 I think it is Multan Municipality building
5 is Peshawar
3 is in Hyderabad Market Area ( I stayed in a hotel and walked through that gate once during night. It is a bustling place)
15 is ofcourse Lahore and 16 is Bhawalpur , ( i think it is some university or some Nawab’s Mahal)
17 is Merewether Tower
18 is Sialkot and I think it is not 1300 Kms apart from Karachi is it around 800kms
8 is Sukkur
Following Clock Towers have been correctly identified by our readers so far but few still didn’t get a correct answer.
Correct answers so far:
1. Empress Market, Karachi
2. Faisalabad
3. Hyderabad
4. Merewether Tower, Karachi
5. ??????? NO CORRECT ANSWER YET
6. Punjab University, Lahore
7. Sialkot
8. ?????? NO CORRECT ANSWER YET
9. ?????? NO CORRECT ANSWER YET
10.?????? NO CORRECT ANSWER YET
11. Government College University, Lahore
12. KMC building, Karachi
13. ?????? NO CORRECT ANSWER YET
14. ?????? NO CORRECT ANSWER YET
15. Lahore Railway Station
16. ?????? NO CORRECT ANSWER YET
17. Merewether Tower, Karachi
18. Sialkot
19. Faisalabad
20. Faisalabad