Faces of Pakistan - historical photographs

[Mian Babban]

A Parsi family of Karachi, 1880s

 

[Mian Babban]

Sher Ali Afridi . He assassinated Lord Mayo, Viceroy of India on 8 February 1872. He was a prisoner at Andaman and Nicobar Islands at the time.

The Cycle Rickshaw in Karachi, 1950s

A Family Preparing Meal in Peshawar Bazaar, 1920s

Balochs, circa 1900

Karachi , 1950s

Lahore, 1910s

A Christian School in Abbottabad, 1958

Young Muhammad Ali Jinnah

 

[ghazi52]

Boy Polishing Boot of an European Man - Karachi c1940's

1927 Peshawar

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

These are not photographs, but still historic and interesting.

Ruler of Kalat

Ruler of Bahawalpur

Pashtun Resistance in modern-day KPK

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Photographs

A hockey team from Lahore

An armed family in NWFP

Mrs. Kennedy's tour in Pakistan

Young Pakistani Border guards on the Afghan Border

Lashkars mobilize against India during the 1965 war

Cricket Team in Lahore

Workers building a Canal

School in Azad Kashmir, notice the unique hats.

A soldier/officer??

Pakistani Soldiers occupy positions on a captured Indian hill-top in 1965

Pakistani Soldiers take up positions in Kashmir during 1965

Pakistani Lashkars gather to head to the Eastern Front during 1965

East Pakistani housewives learn how to handle guns in preparations for a possible spill-over into East Pakistan during 1965 war

Armed Pathan tribesmen waiting on road between Peshawar & Rawalpindi for their leader Batcha Gul, of the Mohman tribe, to arrive w. trucks and extra ammo, to lead them into battle in Kashmir during their struggle for independence.

MQM militants take up positions against Government Forces

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

Paramilitary Forces combat the MQM

Locals play with Dice, 1932, Karachi

Pashtun Merchants flee Amritsar into Pakistan following communal violence in 1947

Muslim League National Guards

Muslim League National Guard gives water to an Indian family migrating to Pakistan

Indian Muslims depart for Pakistan

Indian Muslims raise the Pakistani flag in London, 1947

Condition of Muslim Refugees as they arrive from India

 

[ghazi52]

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

Members of the Sindh Muslim Women National Guard

Zaid Haroon, Commander of the Muslim National Guard

Prince of Khairpur

Wali of Swat with State Policemen

Governor of Sindh

School in Lahore 1947

Pashtun tribesmen answer the call for Jihad against India in 1947

Guards escort peasants in Swat

Members of the Pakistan Regular Army/Muslim national Guard in 1947

December 1947: Clerk helping Malik (Chief) of Swat Ranezai tribe, place his inked thumb print as his signature on the agreement document to their accession to the govt. of Pakistan during Jirga (tribal assembly) for the Northwest Frontier Province.

Pro-Pakistani Bengali Volunteers undergoing training, 1971 war

General Niazi with wounded Soldiers, 1971

Pakistani soldiers inspect the body of a dead Indian Soldier, 1971

 

[ghazi52]

Original painting by Mortimer Menpas, Peshawar 1912

Kissa Khawani, Peshawar in 1910 AD

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

1965 war, Pak soldiers wrote Lahore 14.2 bloody miles after repulsing indian invasion:

Gilgit Baltistan scouts after uprooting british and dogra forces from region in 1947:

Pashtun Lashkar in 47

A Baloch Tribesman 1900s:

Pashtun Tribesmen haunting british army:

Pak army tanks leavin Moghadishu airport:

A Pakistani U.N. soldier speaks into a walkie-talkie while United Nations helicopters fly over '[- Mogadishu

Pak soldiers during Bosnian civil war:

 

[Mian Babban]

Actually this thread is "faces of (people of) of Pakistan" and is corrective response to this thread of Riazulaq https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/faces-of-pakistan.377928/ ......i dont know why i am seeing shots of dead bodies and inanimate objects in this thread

 

[Mian Babban]

Sadat Hassan Manto holding his daughter Nighat Manto in c.1949

Mir Khudadad Khan , the Khan of the princely state of Kalat Reign 1857 -1893

 

[Mangus Ortus Novem]

Sadat Hassan Manto holding his daughter Nighat Manto in c.1949

Mir Khudadad Khan , the Khan of the princely state of Kalat Reign 1857 -1893
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Thanks, Pak Friend, for sharing your culture and faces of your beautiful peoples...

Every province, every part of Pak has this rich beauty, this timelessness about it...

Keep sharing with us!

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Indian POWs lead to camps;

Injured FC soldier;

 

[Kabira]

Lyari Karachi 1900

 

[Mian Babban]

Biddo Brahmin Pahelwan , Lahore 1910