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Shahi Qila

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Area Lahore, Pakistan Directions 31°35′16.48″N 74°18′54.23″E Constructed 1566, with later augmentations under Mughal and Sikh realms Structural style(s) Indo-Islamic, Mughal Proprietor Mughal Empire (1566-1761) Maratha Empire (1757-1759) Sikh Confederacy (1761-1799) Sikh Empire (1799-1849) East India Company (1849-1858) English India (1858-1947) Focal Government of Pakistan (1947-present)

Shahi Qila

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The Lahore Fort (Punjabi and Urdu: شاہی قلعہ‎, romanized: Shāhī Qilā, lit. 'Royal Fort') is a stronghold in the city of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.[1] The fortification is situated at the northern finish of walled city Lahore, and spreads over a space more noteworthy than 20 hectares.[2] It contains 21 prominent landmarks, some of which date to the period of Emperor Akbar. The Lahore Fort is prominent for having been essentially revamped in the seventeenth century,[3] when the Mughal Empire was at the stature of its wonder and opulence

Badshahi Mosque

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The Badshahi Mosque was built by the Mughal ruler Aurangzeb somewhere in the range of 1671 and 1673. The mosque is a significant illustration of Mughal design, with an outside that is enlivened with cut red sandstone with marble decorate. It stays the biggest mosque of the Mughal-time, and is the second-biggest mosque in Pakistan.[4] After the fall of the Mughal Empire, the mosque was utilized as a post by the British Empire, and is currently one of Pakistan's most famous sights.[1] Area

Badshahi Mosque

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Religion Connection Sunni Islam Faction Hanafi school of statute Overseeing body Legislature of Pakistan Area Area Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan Country Pakistan Badshahi Mosque is situated in LahoreBadshahi Mosque Area in Lahore, Pakistan Show guide of Lahore Show guide of Pakistan Show all Geographic directions 31°35′17″N 74°18′36″E Engineering Type Congregational mosque Style Indo-Islamic, Mughal Finished 1673 Details Limit 100,000 Dome(s) 3 Minaret(s) 8 (4 significant, 4 minor) Minaret stature 176 ft 4 in (53.75 m) Materials Red sandstone, marble

Badshahi Mosque

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The Badshahi Mosque (Punjabi: بادشاہی مسجد, lit. 'The Royal Mosque') is a Mughal-period congregational mosque in Lahore, capital of the Pakistani area of Punjab, Pakistan.[1][2] The mosque is found west of Lahore Fort along the edges of the Walled City of Lahore, and is generally viewed as one of Lahore's most famous landmarks.[3]

Muhammad Ayub khan

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second President of Pakistan In office 27 October 1958 – 25 March 1969 Gone before by Iskander Mirza Prevailed by Yahya Khan fourth Minister of Defense In office 28 October 1958 – 21 October 1966 Agent Government Secretary Defense See list Muhammad Khurshid (1958-59) S. Fida Hussain (1959-61) Nazir Ahmed (1961-65) Gone before by Ayub Khuhro Prevailed by V-Adm. Afzal Rahman Khan In office 24 October 1954 – 11 August 1955 Head administrator Mohammad Ali Bogra Delegate Akhter Husain (Protection Secretary) Gone before by Mohammad Ali Bogra Prevailed by Mohammad Ali Priest of Interior In office 23 March 1965 – 17 August 1965 Agent Inside Secretary Gone before by K. H. Khan Prevailed by Ali Akbar Khan third Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army In office 23 January 1951[1] – 26 October 1958 Agent Head of General Staff See list Maj-Gen. Yusuf Khan (1951-53) Maj-Gen. M. H. Noise (1953-55) Maj-Gen....

Muhammad Ayub khan

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Muhammad Ayub Khan (Urdu: محمد ایوب خان‎; 14 May 1907 – 19 April 1974), was the second President of Pakistan. He was a military general who held onto the administration from the primary president Iskander Mirza in an overthrow in 1958, the main effective rebellion in the country. Famous showings and work strikes upheld by the fights in East Pakistan at last prompted his constrained abdication in 1969.

Mirza Ghalib

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In his sonnet "Chiragh-I-Dair" (The Lamp of Temple) which was made during his excursion to Benares throughout the spring of 1827, Ghalib pondered about the place that is known for Hindustan (India) and how Qiyamah (Doomsday) has neglected to show up, despite the various struggles tormenting it.[32] Said I one night to an immaculate diviner (Who knew the mysteries of spinning Time) 'Sir you well see, That integrity and confidence, Devotion and love Have all withdrawn from this sorry land. Father and child are at one another's throat; Sibling battles sibling. Solidarity and Federation are sabotaged. Notwithstanding these foreboding signs Why has not Doomsday come? For what reason doesn't the Last Trumpet sound? Who holds the reins of the Final Catastrophe?'.

Mirza Ghalib

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Local name مرزا اسد اللٌٰه خان غالب Conceived Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan 27 December 1797 Kala Mahal, Akbarabad, Mughal Empire (Present day: Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India) Passed on 15 February 1869 (matured 71) Gali Qasim Jaan, Ballimaran, Chandni Chowk, Delhi, British India (Present day: Ghalib ki Haveli, Delhi, India) Nom de plume Ghalib, Asad Occupation Artist Enough said Mughal time, British Raj Class Ghazal, Qasida, Ruba'i, Qit'a, Marsiya Subject Love, Philosophy, Mysticism Guardians Mirza Abdullah Baig Khan (father) Izzat-un-Nisa Begum (mother) He wrote in both Urdu and Persian. Despite the fact that his Persian Divan is no less than quite a bit longer than his Urdu Divan, his notoriety lays on his verse in Urdu. Today, Ghalib stays mainstream in the Indian subcontinent as well as among the Hindustani diaspora around the world.[4]

Mirza Ghalib

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Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan (Urdu: مرزا اسد اللٌٰه بیگ خان‎; 27 December 1797 – 15 February 1869),[1] likewise known by the nom de plumes of Ghalib (Urdu: غالب‎, romanized: Ġālib, lit. 'dominant') and Asad (Urdu: اسد‎, romanized: Asad, lit. 'lion'), was an Indian poet.[2] His honorific was Dabir-ul-Mulk, Najm-ud-Daula. During his lifetime, the previously declining Mughal domain was obscured and uprooted by the British East India Company Rule lastly removed after the loss of the First Indian War of Independence (Sepoy Mutiny) of 1857; these are depicted through his work.[3]

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto

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A Pakistan International Airlines flight was shipped off get Bhutto from New York, who around then was putting forth Pakistan's viewpoint before the United Nations Security Council on the East Pakistan Crises. Bhutto got back on 18 December 1971. On 20 December, he was taken to the President House in Rawalpindi, where he took more than two situations from Yahya Khan, one as president and the other as first non military personnel Chief Martial Law Administrator. Accordingly, he was the main regular citizen Chief Martial Law Administrator of the dissected Pakistan. When Bhutto had accepted control of what survived from Pakistan, the country was totally separated, irritated, and disheartened. Bhutto tending to the country through radio and TV said:

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto

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Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (Sindhi: ذوالفقار علي ڀٽو‎; Urdu: ذُوالفِقار علی بُھٹّو‎‎; 5 January 1928 – 4 April 1979) was a Pakistani attorney and lawmaker who filled in as the ninth Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977, and before that as the fourth President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973. He was additionally the organizer of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and filled in as its administrator until his execution in 1979.[3]

General Muhammad Zia-Uk-Haq

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General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (12 August 1924 – 17 August 1988) was a four-star general who turned into the 6th President of Pakistan subsequent to proclaiming military law in 1977. He filled in as the head of state from 1978 until his passing in a plane accident in 1988. He stays the nation's longest-serving head of state and Chief of Army Staff.

Allama Muhammad Iqbal

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Iqbal's graceful works are composed fundamentally in Persian as opposed to Urdu. Among his 12,000 refrains of verse, around 7,000 stanzas are in Persian.[44] In 1915, he distributed his first assortment of verse, the Asrar-I-Khudi اسرارِ خودی (Secrets of the Self) in Persian. The sonnets accentuate the soul and self according to a strict point of view. Numerous pundits have called this present Iqbal's best beautiful work.[66] In Asrar-I-Khudi, Iqbal clarifies his way of thinking of "Khudi", or "Self".[44][22] Iqbal's utilization of the expression "Khudi" is inseparable from "Rooh" utilized in the Quran for a heavenly flash which is available in each person, and was said by Iqbal to be available in Adam, for which God requested the entirety of the holy messengers to prostrate before Adam.[44] Iqbal censures implosion. As far as he might be concerned, the point of life is self-acknowledgment and self-information. He diagrams the stages ...

Muhammad Iqbal

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Conceived Muhammad Iqbal 9 November 1877 Sialkot, Punjab, British India (present-day Punjab, Pakistan) Kicked the bucket 21 April 1938 (matured 60) Lahore, Punjab, British India (present-day Punjab, Pakistan) Identity English Indian Schooling Scotch Mission College (F.A.) Government College (BA, MA) College of Cambridge (BA) College of Munich (PhD) Striking work Bang-e-Dara,Tarana-e-Milli, The Secrets of the Self, The Secrets of Selflessness, Message from the East, Persian Psalms, Javid Nama, Sare Jahan se Accha (more works) Period twentieth century reasoning Locale Islamic way of thinking Proposal The Development of Metaphysics in Persia Doctoral counsel Fritz Hommel Fundamental interests Modernized Islam, Urdu verse, Urdu writing, Persian verse, Law, History, Metaphysics, Islamic communism Striking thoughts Allahabad Address Impacts Bismil Azimabadi Vladimir Lenin Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani Syed Mir Hassan Rumi Sayyid Ali...

Allama Muhammad Iqbal

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Sir Muhammad Iqbal KCSI (Urdu: محمد اقبال‎; 9 November 1877 – 21 April 1938) was a Pakistani writer,[1][2] philosopher,[3] and politician,[4] whose verse in the Urdu and Persian dialects is among the most very much respected of the 20th century,[5][6][7][8] and whose vision of a social and political ideal for the Muslims of British-administered India[9] was to quicken the drive for Pakistan.[1][10] He is normally alluded to by the honorific Allama[11] (from Persian: علامہ‎, romanized: ʿallāma, lit. 'very knowing, most learned').[12]

Jinnah and Gandhi arguing is 1939

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Withq the British and Muslims somewhat co-working, the Viceroy requested Jinnah for an articulation from the Muslim League's situation on self-government, sure that it would vary incredibly from that of the Congress. To concoct such a position, the League's Working Committee met for four days in February 1940 to set out terms of reference to a sacred sub-board. The Working Committee asked that the sub-board get back with a recommendation that would bring about "autonomous domains in direct relationship with Great Britain" where Muslims were dominant.[120] On 6 February, Jinnah educated the Viceroy that the Muslim League would be requesting allotment rather than the organization pondered in the 1935 Act. The Lahore Resolution (now and then called the "Pakistan Resolution", despite the fact that it doesn't contain that name), in view of the sub-panel's work, accepted the Two-Nation Theory and required an association of the Muslim-greater part regions i...

Muhammad Ali Jinnah Second World War and Lahore Resolutions

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On 3 September 1939, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declared the initiation of battle with Nazi Germany.[115] The next day, the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, without talking with Indian political pioneers, reported that India had entered the conflict alongside Britain. There were boundless fights in India. In the wake of meeting with Jinnah and with Gandhi, Linlithgow declared that exchanges on self-government were suspended for the length of the war.[116] The Congress on 14 September requested prompt freedom with a constituent get together to choose a constitution; when this was declined, its eight common governments surrendered on 10 November and lead representatives in those areas from there on administered by pronouncement for the rest of the conflict. Jinnah, then again, was more able to oblige the British, and they thus progressively remembered him and the League as the delegates of India's Muslims.[117] Jinnah later expressed, "after the conflict started, ... I ...

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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first Governor-General of Pakistan In office 14 August 1947 – 11 September 1948 Ruler George VI PM Liaquat Ali Khan Gone before by Position set up Prevailed by Khawaja Nazimuddin Speaker of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan In office 11 August 1947 – 11 September 1948 Appointee Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan Gone before by Position set up Prevailed by Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan Leader of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan In office 11 August 1947 – 11 September 1948 Representative Liaquat Ali Khan Gone before by Office made Prevailed by Office canceled Individual subtleties Conceived Mahomedali Jinnahbhai 25 December 1876 Karachi, Bombay Presidency, British India Kicked the bucket 11 September 1948 (matured 71) Karachi, Federal Capital Territory, Pakistan Resting place Mazar-e-Quaid, Karachi Identity English Indian (1876–1947) Pakistani (1947–1948) Ideological group Muslim League (1947–1948) Other politica...

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah (conceived Mahomedali Jinnahbhai; 25 December 1876 – 11 September 1948) was a counselor, legislator and the originator of Pakistan.[1] Jinnah filled in as the head of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the commencement of Pakistan on 14 August 1947, and afterward as the Dominion of Pakistan's first Governor-General until his passing. He is loved in Pakistan as the Quaid-I-Azam ("Great Leader") and Baba-I-Qaum ("Father of the Nation"). His birthday is seen as a public occasion in Pakistan. Quaid-e-Azam Baba-I-Qaum