Naveed A Bari
Joined on: Nov 30, -0001
Published stories: 127
Articles By Naveed A Bari
Bhera: A Historical City Lost in Obscurity-Last part 1300 years ago, Bhera was a place of learning and people from other areas came here to learn about medicine and geography. Besides many Muslim saints passed by Bhera which became famous in the whole of Asia. Hazrat Meeran Sahib was one such saint, who worked […]
Apr 12 2012 | Posted in
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Bhera: A Historical City Lost in Obscurity Part-1 Bhera – an interchange and rest station when driving on Lahore Islamabad Motorway M-2. This is all most Pakistanis know about Bhera. But few know that just near this city, Alexander of Macedonia fought his famous battle with Hindu ruler Porus as far back as 326 […]
Apr 11 2012 | Posted in
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Sights and Sounds of Bhawalpur -Last part The surrounding area is mostly agricultural, and the city is a market town for mangoes, dates, wheat, sugarcane, and cotton. The city is connected to the rest of the country through rail, road and air link. Bahawalpur district covers an area of 24,830 square kilometres and comprises […]
Apr 10 2012 | Posted in
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Sights and Sounds of Bhawalpur Part-1 Southern Punjab of Punjab province of Pakistan has many a historical places that narrate the history of Pakistan, much before it emerged as an independent country in 1947. Of these besides the historical city of Multan that is considered to be the oldest living city of the world, […]
Apr 9 2012 | Posted in
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Sadequain: A Muralist, Calligrapher, Poet and a rare visionary-Last part After Sadequain transformed the art of calligraphy into a mainstream art form, most of the known Pakistani artists have followed Sadequain and calligraphic art now dominates the art scene. Sadequain also painted in bold form the poetic verses of Ghalib, Iqbal and Faiz, […]
Apr 6 2012 | Posted in
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Sadequain: A Muralist, Calligrapher, Poet and a rare visionary Part-1 Sadequain (1930-1987) would go down in the history of painting in Pakistan in particular and rest of the world in general as a genuine painter, who left so many footsteps that many are copying till date. Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, also often referred to […]
Apr 5 2012 | Posted in
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Attabad Lake spillways widened by FWO as the inflow of water increases in approaching summers The officials of Frontier Works Organisation carried out a blasting plan on Monday to expand and deepen the spillway of Attabad lake, which formed after a devastating landslip two years ago. “We have completed our task and through controlled […]
Apr 4 2012 | Posted in
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Ismail Gulgee: An insight into life of Pakistan’s great painter Last-part Art critic Eric Gibson once remarked, Mr. Gulgee began as a portraitist, moving into his colour abstractions only in the past 20 years. These paintings are by far his most interesting. In them, the artist is attempting to fuse two traditions: Islamic calligraphy, […]
Apr 3 2012 | Posted in
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Ismail Gulgee: An insight into life of Pakistan’s great painter Part-1 Ismail Gulgee was yet another award winning globally famous Pakistani artist. Ismail Gulgee was born in Peshawar on October 25, 1926. His father and grandfather had moved there from Attock, while his mother was from Hazara. Gulgee’s father studied at the Muslim College […]
Apr 2 2012 | Posted in
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Rehman Dheri waiting to be explored and uncovered Rehman Dheri is a pre-Harappan archaeological site, dated about 4000 BC situated 22 kilometres north of Dera Ismail Khan in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. The site is considered to be one of the oldest urbanized center found to date in South Asia. The low […]
Mar 29 2012 | Posted in
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Kalash Valley: Where Fairies Dance and Sing Obscured by high mountains and treacherous muddy tracks, there live a people up in the north of Pakistan, who do not even know who they are or from where they came to live a life of isolation – yet maintain and protect their beliefs, their ideology and […]
Mar 28 2012 | Posted in
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Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand visits Harrapa, Peshawar Museum Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand is visited the Harapa Museum and Harrapa archaeological site on Thursday morning. She reached Harrapa via a chopper from Islamabad to spend a couple of hours at the ancient site. Princess Maha […]
Mar 22 2012 | Posted in
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