After years of negligence and a lack of serious preservation efforts, the historic buildings and facades of Lahore’s old city are being rescued from further deterioration. The overall jurisdiction of ...

The Pakistani city of Lahore is one of the Indian subcontinent’s most brilliant gems, yet it remains relatively obscure outside the country – an unexpected pleasure for travelers. With Pakistan ...

It is amazing that on Wednesday last the shopkeepers of the walled city protested against the plans of this new barely two-week old quasi-political-bureaucratic “heritage” ‘authority’ which stands ...

New Delhi: In Pakistan’s cultural capital Lahore, official signboards are now catching up with what its residents had quietly preserved all along—its syncretic tradition. Seventy-nine years after ...

Perched on scaffolding, restoration experts chip away at decades of grime and repair broken mosaic tiles in a bid to save the colossal murals depicting historic battles and regal ceremonies on the ...

An aerial view of Lahore with a prominent view of the Badshahi Mosque. | Public Domain/ CC BY-SA 4.0 Lahore, Manan Ahmed Asif tells us in Disrupted City, his magnificent account of the city, has ...

It is no secret that Lahore has inherited a colonial legacy of haphazard urban planning. Rather than course-correcting, however, we appear to have doubled down on the worst aspects of it. The latest ...

South Asian fiction has clearly understood the assignment. Emerging from the socio-political anxieties of a people with a shared and continuing history of conflict and trauma, much of recent South ...