The fabled ‘Lahore Walled City’ is one of South Asia’s jewels as the grandeur of its centuries-old heritage leaves magical influence on the visitors. Each year thousands of tourist throng ...

In Persian, Koh-e-Noor diamond means “Mountain of Light”. ... In the Walled City, specific streets are associated with the Shia community. Dressed in black, men, ...

Perched outside his workshop in Lahore’s Walled City, ... He describes the history of the hookah, invented by the Persian physicist, Abu’l-Fath Gilani, in the 16th century.

MailOnline Travel has selected photos of some of the world's most breathtaking walled cities and towns to inspire you to book your next historic holiday. And there's wall-to-wall beauty to be found.

Built on a site inhabited since the Palaeolithic period, the Walled City of Baku reveals evidence of Zoroastrian, Sasanian, Arabic, Persian, Shirvani, Ottoman, and Russian presence in cultural ...

Managed by members of the DYWA, the library today owns more than 20,000 books in Urdu, Arabic, English, Hindi, and Persian. About 2,500 books are received from rare collections ...

The walled city had 81 small points of learning the holy Quran and Persian. For example, the largest school had 50 pupils and that was at Hamaam Wali Maktab just near Chinnianwali Masjid.

Conservation and cultural projects in Pakistan’s Walled City of Lahore are moving at full speed despite the country’s rocky economy and uncertain political and security situation. On 15 ...

In a quaint corner in Pankor Naka in the Walled City is one of the few libraries in the country which is treasure trove of medieval Persian and Arabic documents and religious texts. AHMEDABAD: In ...

We went one morning to Persian scholar SM Yunus Jaffery’s private library in his home in the Walled City neighbourhood of Ganj Mir Khan. This month commemorates his first death anniversary.