Photos of Punjab, Pakistan

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Punjab Provice, eastern Pakistan

During the 16th century Mughal Empire, Punjab referred to the region in the northern Indian subcontinent between the Indus and Sutley rivers. But during the British occupation, its boundaries were much more expansive, encompassing a large area of British India. The name is derived from the Persian words “panj” (five) and “ab” (water), and this was used by the Turko-Persian founders of the Mughal Empire. “Five Waters” refers to five rivers that are tributaries of the Indus river.

Khanpur Railway Station
 
View, Dera Nawab Sahib
 
View to Bahawalpur
 
Bahawalpur Railway Station
 
Shujabad Railway Station
 
Dusk near Faisalabad
 
Indus river, Attock Khurd
 
In Rawalpindi
 
Rawalpindi Cantonment
 
Election manifestation
 
Election manifestation
 
In Islamabad
 
Pakistani truck
 
Between Rawalpindi and Murree
 
View in Murree
 
View in Murree
 
Murree town centre
 
Ayub National Park
 
Boys in Lahore
 
Anarkali Road, Anarkali Road
 
Street corner, Anarkali Bazaar
 
Heavy traffic, Lahore old city
 
Narrow street, Lahore old city
 
Gate, Badshahi Mosque
 
Badshahi Mosque
 
Central gate, Badshahi Mosque
 
Samadhi of Ranjit Singh
 
Minar-e-Pakistan
 
School children arriving by tonga
 
School children in tonga
 
Shalimar Garden
 
Having lunch, Shalimar Garden
 
Motorbike workshop
 
Girls, corn on the cob
 
Girl, corn on the cob
 
Two Indian children
 

After the Partition of 1947, Punjab was divided along religious lines between India and Pakistan. Punjab is Pakistan’s most populous province, with over 110 million people and its most industrialised. The country’s second-largest city and the historic cultural centre of the wider Punjab region is Lahore, with beautiful remnants of the Mughal Empire, like the 17th-century Badshahi Mosque and Shalimar Gardens.

Rawalpindi (usually shortened to “Pindi”) is Pakistan’s fourth-largest city. Before Partition, the town was only 44% Muslim, but its region was almost wholly Muslim. So it was awarded to Pakistan, and after bloody riots, Rawalpindi’s Hindu and Sikh population nearly all migrated to India. In 1961 construction started of the new purpose-built capital city, Islamabad, just to its north. It is now the Islamabad Capital Territory and fully integrated as the Islamabad/Rawalpindi Metropolitan Area.