Clerk Helping Malik (Chief) Of Swat Ranezai Tribe (Malakand District), Place His Inked Thumb Print As His Signature On The Agreement Document To Their Accession To The Government Of Pakistan During Jirga (Tribal Assembly) For The North-West Frontier Province.
Location - Malakand, December 1947.
Photographer - Margaret Bourke-White.
Life Photo Collection, New York, United States.
Pakistani Leader of the Afridi Tribe Speaks At a Chief's Council, April 1949.
A leader (right) of the Afridi tribe near Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, speaks at a chief's council or jirga. The resolution was passed at meeting establishing penalties for anyone attempting to establish any sort of Muslim League or political organization which would interfere with their independence. The penalty for a violator? His home burned and a fine of 20.000 rupees. Photo is dated 04-22-1949.
K.B.HAJI ARBAB AHMAD ALI JAN KHAN AT LANDI KOTAL KHYBER AGENCY PESHAWAR WITH PRESIDENT ISKANDAR MIRZA, AND ARBAB NUR MUHAMMAD KHAN MEETING THE TRIBAL MALIKS AND ELDERS IN 1957.
PHOTO TAKEN BY ARBAB MUHAMMAD AKBAR KHAN, DULY AUTOGRAPHED BY MAJ GENERAL ISKANDAR MIRZA, THE THEN PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN.
Date: 1957
Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah and Lady Sughra with their children.
Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah KCSI (January 1879 – 4 October 1948) was a politician from Sindh. He held several offices in Sindh including 1st Chief Minister (1937–1938) and being re-elected as 5th Chief Minister (1942–1947). After the creation of Pakistan, he became the first Governor of Sindh from 14 August 1947 to 4 October 1948.
The first broadly accurate map of Northern India by the English adventurer, William Baffin, based on geographic intelligence obtained from the court of Jahangir. Though it has some obvious inaccuracies, it's the first map of Northern India to show planimetric accuracy.