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Arangkel Neelum Valley, Kashmir.

 

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Kotli AJK

 

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Karachi

 

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GB

 

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Islamia College, Peshawar.

 

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Islamia College, Peshawar.

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Stunning architecture.

 

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Stunning architecture.

My college. Very big complex, now University.

This 1962 aerial photograph of Peshawar, featured in a Pakistan International Airlines calendar offers an evocative view of the city at a formative moment in its modern history. The perspective looks southward, capturing the western and rear aspects of Islamia College as they anchored the city’s emerging educational landscape.

From L-R a series of landmark buildings define the scene. The white minarets and domes of the Islamia College Mosque stand out prominently. Beyond it lies the early campus of the University of Peshawar, still surrounded by open land, foliage and low density development.

Running through the middle of the image is Jamrud Road already a vital artery of the city. Along it, on the right, is the distinctive dome shaped building of the Agricultural Training Institute (formerly Normal Training College constructed in 1922) Behind it a faint railway line can also be traced hinting at the farsighted transport networks that supported the city’s growth.

The open space visible in the upper middle portion of the photograph marks the site where Khyber Teaching Hospital would later be established in 1976, while the distant expanse shows the early layout of University Town as it began to take shape.

 

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St. Anthony Church, Lahore.

 

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Punjab, Pakistan.

 

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Salt Mine, Khawra, Pakistan.

 

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Kumrat, KP, Pakistan

 

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Jumbo daikon raddish from my farm. It is really big, shame the photo doesn't do it justice, for reference of scale the person holding it is 190cm - roughly 6 feet 3".