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  Front row from Left to Right: Nawab Waqar ul Mulk, Nawab Mohsin ul Mulk, Maulvi Nazeer Ahmad, Altaf Husain Haali, Back row from Left to Right: Shibli Nu\'mani & Prof. Thomas Arnold (Teacher of Allamah Iqbal).  

  Participants marched against the widespread public sexual harassment of women on the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan, last July. The protest was spearheaded by Noor Jehan Akbar, a young woman currently studying in Pennsylvania.  

  The interior of a Jewish synagogue that was situated in Karachi’s Ranchore Lines area. The synagogue was regularly frequented by a small Jew community that resided in the city but migrated to the US and Israel soon after the creation of Pakistan.  

  A group of hippie travellers enjoying Pakistani beer at a rest house in North Pakistan (1974).  

  A 1980 photograph of various Afghan Islamist groups in Peshawar that began gathering in Pakistan after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December 1979.  

  Famous American mystic, Samuel Lewis, seen here with the keepers of the Sufi saint, Data Ganj Baksh’s shrine in Lahore (1962).  

  Pushtun tribesmen with drums (dhol) and other traditional instruments lead a marriage ceremony and play their way through a crowded street of Peshawar in 1952.  

  The brilliant (and provocative) Pakistani short-story writer, Sadat Manto (right) seen with his family outside his residence in Lahore (in 1953).  

  Portrait of the young man thinking about the selfish people. Portrait prepared by Ms.Bushra under the supervision of Dr.Zain  

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  River Kabul and Fort Attock, near Nowshera -1860s  

  GT Road, Peshawar Fort and surroundings from Jail - 1878.  

  Lord Mayo\'s party taken in Peshawar Bazaar and one of the series of views by Baker & Burke illustrating his visit to the city in 1870, whilst travelling through the North West Frontier Province.  

  Kabul River, Peshawar - 1878.  

  The bridge of boats across the Indus and the Attock fort, seen from Khairabad, taken by John Burke in 1878. John Burke accompanied the Peshawar Valley Field Force, one of three British Anglo-Indian army columns deployed in the Second Afghan War [18  

  The floodwaters carry debris down the mountain  

  Villagers have built defences against the floodwaters  

  Most of the glaciers and lakes in the Himalayas are not monitored  

  Some fear the glacial lake outbursts could destroy the community  

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