Garhi Shahu: The scoundrel who replaced a saint

Posted on August 24, 2006
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Guest post by Raza Noor
(based on original by Majid Sheikh)
The area of Garhi Shahu in Lahore has many a fond memories for me because I spent my childhood running around in its small streets. I recently found this wonderful article on Garhi Shahu written by Majid Sheikh in Dawn in 2002. This post is a […]

Lahore, Lahore aye

Posted on August 8, 2006
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By Raza Noor
Lahore is the second largest city in Pakistan with a population of roughly 8.5 million. The traditional capital of Punjab for a thousand years, it had been the cultural center of Northern India extending from Peshawar to New Delhi.

This preeminent position it holds in Pakistan as well. The people of Lahore, when they […]