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ShareThe Badshahi Mosque (Urdu: بادشاھی مسجد) or the ‘King’s Mosque’ in Lahore, commissioned by the sixth Mughal EmperorAurangzeb in 1671 and completed in 1673, is the second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth largest mosque in the world. Epitomising the beauty, passion and grandeur of [Read more]

ShareKite flying have been a tradition of Pakistan and specially in Punjab Lahore. Every year we have been celebrating this occasion and we call it Basant. If you have celebrated Basant then you might be familiar with the words like Bo Kata, Guddi, Door, Peecha, Manja, Gidda, Bhangra, Patang etc. In the pre-partitioned Western Punjab, [Read more]

ShareWagah ( Urdu: واہگہ, Punjabi: ਵਾਘਾ) is the only road border crossing between Pakistan and India, and lies on the Grand Trunk Road between the cities of Lahore and Amritsar (in India). Border The Wagah border, often called the “Berlin wall of Asia”, is a ceremonial border on the India–Pakistan Border where each [Read more]

ShareThe three-day urs of the Festival of Lights (Mela Charaghan) started on Saturday at the shrine of renowned sufi saint Shah Hussain. The festival will continue until March 30. Shah Hussain, who is also known as Shah Hussain Lahori and Madhu Lal Hussain, was a saint in the era of Mughal Emperor Jalauddin Muhammad Akbar. [Read more]

ShareLAHORE – Mela Chiraghan, festival of light marking the 421st annual Urs of Hazrat Shah Hussain (RA), a saint with a different trait and a mystic poet of Punjabi with distinction, commonly known as Madhu Lal Hussain who lived in Lahore in 16th century (1538-1599), began with traditional fervour at Shalimar, Saturday evening. It is [Read more]