Rare photography and pictures pre-partition.

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'Khaffiristan slaves', Kabul, 1880. Photo-John Burke, 2nd Afghan War, 1880. Kafiristan (now Nuristan) border region of Afghanistan & North West Frontier. Kalash were pagan /shamanism /worshipped many deities; similarities with Zoroastrianism. Called 'Kaffirs' (infidels) by Muslims; persecuted & enslaved. Kaffirs' religious /cultural practises similar to Kalash of Chitral in Pakistan. Split by Durand Line in 1893. Afghan side Kaffirs were forcibly converted to Islam. Chitrali Kalash still pagans

Khan of Kalat, Baluchistan, India c1870s

In 1919 Afghanistan signed the Treaty of Rawalpindi, which ended the Third Anglo- Afghan War and marks Afghanistan’s official date of independence. Khyber point.

The line of communication to India through the Khyber Pass was of vital importance to Maj-General Roberts' field force in Kabul, and at first the Mohmand tribesmen of the Afghan frontier region were wary and only intermittently hostile. Dating from 1879, this photograph shows a working relationship between the Khan of Lalpura, the leading Mohmand chief, and, at his right shoulder, seated behind the rock, the British political officer in the Khyber, Captain (later Colonel Sir) Robert Warburton

Photo of Landi Kotal, a small town at the western edge of the Khyber Pass that traditionally marks the entrance to Afghanistan, during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. It is the highest point along the pass. Pictured here is the encampment of the 12,000-strong Peshawar Valley Field Force, under General Sir Samuel Browne (1824–1901), as it crossed the Khyber Pass on the march towards Kabul at the start of the war.

Thal fort Kuram Valley 1919. Third Afghan war.The Waziristan Militia mutinied. Major Guy Hamilton Russell, commander of the South Waziristan Militia, made a fighting withdrawal, but the garrison at Thal guarding the Kurram Pass was cut off. Although besieged and attacked by an Afghan army the Thal garrison held out for a week until it was relieved by a column from Peshawar under Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer. Possibly photographed by Pvt. A.E.Neal 2/6 Royal Sussex Regiment.

 

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Great share

 

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Freemasons Multan, Pakistan, meeting

Sufi Monk Kashmiri Bawa

Dervish, Photographer: Antoin Sevruguin, around 1901

Dervish

Kumbos (Hindoos), Googaira, Mooltan [Multan, Pakistan],

Photograph showing the bridge of boats across the Indus and the Attock fort, seen from Khairabad, now in Pakistan, taken by John Burke in 1878. John Burke accompanied the Peshawar Valley Field Force, one of three British Anglo-Indian army columns deployed in the Second Afghan War (1878-80), despite being rejected for the role of official photographer.

 

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Photograph of Lord Mayo's party taken in Peshawar Bazaar and one of the series of views by Baker & Burke illustrating his visit to the city in 1870, whilst travelling through the North West Frontier Province

The caption on the verso of the photograph reads 'Captain Mackenzie's house at Abbottabad'. Abbottabad was founded in 1853 by Major James Abbott, the first Deputy Commissioner of the Hazara District (1847-53).

The Buddhist sculpture produced by the Kushans in the Swat Valley was referred to as Gandharan, and was influenced by Graeco-Roman elements


Kabul river, Peshawar 1878

Photograph showing a British army camp with men of 1 Company, Royal Horse Artillery, posed in the foreground, taken by John Burke in 1878 near the Safed Koh mountain range which runs from east to west at the north-westerly end of the great Himalayan Range.

The British army camped at Safed Sang during the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80) as there was a good water supply in the valley. However it was also stony, treeless, dusty and very exposed. The camp was in a strategically important position in the North West Frontier Province on the route from Peshawar (now in Pakistan) to Kabul (Afghanistan).

 

[ghazi52]

A Punjab Village, 1925

Lahore - The Capital of Punjab (1930)

 

[Zyzz]

Looks extremely beautiful & peaceful.

 

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An old Pic of Pandit Nehru with M.A Jinnah

 

[ghazi52]

Saddar area Jeeps tow P-47 planes Karachi, WWII 1940s:

Imperial Bank of India Now State Bank of Pakistan Museum Karachi in 1940s:

 

[Musalman]

An old Pic of Pandit Nehru with M.A Jinnah

Two papu bachay

 

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Pakistan India & Bangladesh will always share a historic link with Great Britain.

 

[ghazi52]

Keamari In 1920s Karachi :

A time damaged photo of the Star Cinema inKarachi taken by whilst stationed there with the British Army,” an anonymous contributor on Flickr says about this photograph.

The cinema was likely built in 1918 and was Karachi’s first, and the photograph is likely from the same year because it is playing Hands Up, a silent American western released in 1917. It was directed by Tod Browing and Wilfrid Lucas, and featured Wilfred Lucas, Colleen Moore and Rhea Haynes.

 

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1860