Pakistan Collection (page 7)

Peshawar - 10th Day of Muharram
Taziahs paraded in Peshawar on the 10th Day of Muharram, which commemorates the martyrdom of the prophets Grandson Hussein. The Taziahs are replicas of his tomb. Date: 1909

Cherat, Pakistan - The Bazaar Date: circa 1910s

Peshawar, Pakistan - Street Scene Date: circa 1910s

Queen Elizabeth II - royal tour of India Tatler front cover
Front cover of The Tatler celebrating the royal tour of India in 1961. Queen Elizabeth II, resplendent in magnificent emeralds meets a guest at the Presidential Palace in Pakistan where a banquet was

Erskine Wharf - Wheat Export Yard, Karachi, Pakistan (still India at this stage). Date: circa 1909

Pakistani Greetings Postcard - Eid Festival (1 / 4)
Pakistani Greetings Postcard - Eid Festival (1/4). Eid al-Fitr is a Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. Date: circa 1930s

Waziris Tribesmen of Waziristan - NWFP
Waziris Tribesmen of Waziristan - North West Frontier Province Date: 1919

Murree, North West Frontier Province (now in Pakistan). A general view of this hillside town, featuring the Bazar, the Murree Depot, Pindi Point and Murree Hill

Rawalpindi - North West Frontier Province
Dhobi Ghat in Park at Rawalpindi - North West Frontier Province (in modern-day Pakistan)

Fort and railway line - Peshawar
Railway line and British Army tented camp under the walls of the Peshawar Fort. Located on the edge of the Khyber Pass near the Afghan border, Peshawar is the commercial, economic

North West Frontier Province - Peshawar (now in Pakistan) - view over the rooftops

The Fort, Peshawar - North West Frontier Province
The Fort. Located on the edge of the Khyber Pass near the Afghan border, Peshawar is the commercial, economic, political and cultural capital of the Pashtuns in Pakistan

The British Government House, Peshawar. Located on the edge of the Khyber Pass near the Afghan border, Peshawar is the commercial, economic, political and cultural capital of the Pashtuns in Pakistan

North West Frontier Province - Entrance to Khyber Pass
Entrance to the Khyber Pass near the Afghan border, close to Peshawar - the commercial, economic, political and cultural capital of the Pashtuns in Pakistan

Sadar Bazaar, Peshawar. Located on the edge of the Khyber Pass near the Afghan border, Peshawar is the commercial, economic, political and cultural capital of the Pashtuns in Pakistan

Cherat - North West Frontier Province
Post and Telegraph Office at Cherat - a hill station in Nowshera District in the North West Frontier Province (now Pakistan)

Peshawar - North West Frontier Province
Located on the edge of the Khyber Pass near the Afghan border, Peshawar is the commercial, economic, political and cultural capital of the Pashtuns in Pakistan

Jamrud Fort - Peshawar, North West Frontier Province
Jamrud Fort - 10 miles from Peshawar, located on the edge of the Khyber Pass near the Afghan border. Peshawar is the commercial, economic, political and cultural capital of the Pashtuns in Pakistan

Edwards Gate - Peshawar, Pakistan
The Edwards Gate or Kabul Gate - the main entrance to Peshawar City, Pakistan leading into the Qissa Khawani (storyteller) Bazzar

Mackeson Memorial, Peshawar
Mackeson Memorial, The Mall, Peshawar, North West Frontier Province. Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Mackeson (1807 - 1853) was the Commissioner of Peshawar

General view of the Double-deckers, Peshawar - two-level buildings

The Mall - Peshawar, Pakistan

Afridis of the Pass - North West Frontier Province
Afridis of the (Khyber) Pass - North West Frontier Province

General view of Peshawar
Peshawar - general view. The oldest continually-inhabited city on Earth

Khyber Pass - North West Frontier Province
Khyber Pass - between Jamrud and Ali-Musjid - North West Frontier Province

Frontier with Afghanistan
The Atak Bridge forming the frontier between India (now Pakistan) and Afghanistan

Khyber Pass - Afghanistan / Pakistan - Fort Peshawar
The Khyber Pass - the mountain pass that links Pakistan and Afghanistan. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location

Boat bridge on River Kabul, Nowshera, Pakistan
Boat bridge on River Kabul, Nowshera, North West Frontier Province (Pakistan)

Khyber Pass, Afghanistan
Zakka Village - Khyber Pass, North West Frontier Province, Afghanistan - Pakistan Border. Throughout history, the Khyber Pass has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia

Mosque of Wazir Khan, Lahore, Pakistan
The Wazir Khan Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan - built in seven years, starting around 1634-1635 A.D. during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jehan

Gwader, Pakistan
View of Gwader, located on the southwestern coast of Pakistan, on the Arabian Sea

Village Elder
An Elder from the Kashmir region of India, or possibly even further north-west in a region which now form part of Pakistan. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Lorries in the Thar Desert, India
People and lorries in the Thar Desert (the Great Indian Desert), India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Better impressions by sea
Poster encouraging people to travel by sea for Better Impressions. Places visited on the way include the UK, Egypt, Sudan, East and South Africa, the Persian Gulf, India, Ceylon, Pakistan, Malaya

First engine for the Peshawur Railway, India
The first engine for the Peshawur railway being conveyed across the River Indus at Attock, India

Afghanistan - Kohat Pass - N. W. Frontier Province
An Afridi Family of the Kohat Pass connecting Kohat with Peshawar, North West Frontier Province

Lakeside Temple, Madhya Pradesh Region. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Processing reeds and plants
Agricultural processes in a province in North-west India, now a part of modern-day Pakistan. The men are collecting reeds and drying plants on a long string from a rapidly-drying riverbed

Pakistani / Indian Elder
An Elder from a province in modern day Pakistan, at this point however it was still a province in North-west India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Men and women collect and tie reed bundles
Collecting and tieing reed bundles by a stream in a province formerly part of India and now wiithin modern Pakistan. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Scene on a road in Pakistan
Scene on a track in a province formerly in North-west India, which now forms part of modern-day Pakistan. A man and a woman travel together, the woman seted on a donkey, her face completely covered

Two Men tie reeds by a stream
Two men working by a stream (in a former Indian province which now forms part of Modern Pakistan). They are tying up bundles of reeds. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Rawalpindi, Pakistan
View over the rooftops of Rawalpindi, Pakistan Date: circa 1910s

Sikhs flee from West to East Punjab
A Sikh man with his children in one of the caravans leaving the West Punjab region for the comparative safety of the East Punjab

Partition. Muslim women and children pouring across the fro
Muslim women and children escaping the Sikh Jathas, pouring over the frontier border into Pakistan having heard about atrocities and violence following Partition in 1947

Mahatma Gandhi at Muslim refugee camp
The hindu spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi receives a warm reception from Muslim refugees gathered at a camp close to Delhi, prior to convoy travel to Pakistan

Partition. Refugees crossing the border between Pakistan
A lorryload of Sikh and Hindu refugees about to cross the Wagah Bridge between Pakistan and India to escape the mass killings and atrocities between Muslims

Caravan of Sikh refugees - India 1947
A caravan of Sikh refugees crossing India to escape attack and repression from Muslim populations during the time of Partition

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