Owais Mughal
The Following photo is courtesy of Zahoor Ahmed. It is dated as April 17, 2008 and shows colors of spring in Pakistan’s Hunza Valley.

Some of you may also remember our earlier photo post, which showed Autumn Colors in Hunza Valley.

Nadeem Omar
This set of photographs from F.E. Chaudhry depict the news journalist side of Chacha’s portfolio.

In February 1961, Queen Elizabeth II, toured India, Iran, Nepal and Pakistan on her first ever tour of countries outside Europe. She arrived in Pakistan on 11th February, and was received at the airport by Govenor, Nawab Kalabagh Khan. As […]

Adil Najam

A general rule that many parents teach their children is that if you have to keep saying “sorry” for the same mistake again and again and again and again; then, apology loses its effectiveness, and you your credibility.
A first instinct at hearing about Shoaib’s Akhtar “unconditional apology” to the nation and the PCB for […]

Nadeem Omar
Much like the last photograph in our series on the F.E. Chaudhry Collection, this photograph is also about women at work. But in a different way.

This photograph, taken in Lahore probably in the 1960s, brings to light many Pakistani realities; some of which have changed, and some not.

Owais Mughal
The following photo is courtesy of Mr. Waheed M. Zuberi. This banner was on display at the main Clifton Road opposite Park Towers in late 2007. For our English readership, the banner reads:
“Miracle of Nature: Milk Producing Male Goat”
and then the contact information is given. At first I wanted to pass on this photo […]

Owais Mughal

Nadeem Omar
In this, the first in our series of photographs from the F.E. Chaudhry Collection, we want to feature this remarkable photograph taken on a Lahore street-side, probably in the 1950s.

A group of four young women unabashedly sitting in a row on a road side in Lahore, picking each other’s heads for lice and so […]