Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Pakistan in Fifties

 Three and half year old Shahrukh Khan (right) and his six year old sister, Zamzam Khan, doff their shoes before entering the Shah Jahan Mosque in Woking. The occasion was the celebration of the Muslim festival, 'Id Al-Adha, which commemorates the sacrifice of Ishmael by Abraham. Rites were conducted by British Muslim, Al-Hij Dawud Cowan, M.A. lecturer in Arabic at London University. Shahrukh and Zamzam are the children of the Commercial Secretary of the Pakistan Embassy.
 Liaquat Ali Khan (1895 - 1951), Prime Minister of Pakistan, during a visit to London as a guest of the Government. He was assassinated by a Muslim fanatic. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

 circa 1945: Indian politician Mohammed Ali Jinnah (1876 -1948), the founding father of Pakistan and its first Governor-General. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

 1954: Pakistani Rover scouts stand under large signs saying Goat, Bull, Camel at the entrance to an enclosure at the Aga Khan's diamond jubilee celebrations in Karachi. (Photo by Ernst Haas/Ernst Haas/Getty Images)

 circa 1955: Buffalo Bob Smith (third from left) and the clown Clarabell of the children's television series 'The Howdy Doody Show' kneeling among a group of children of various nationalities. The children are wearing traditional national costumes and are holding balloons. L-R: Alan Dessault (Belgium), Amjum Chatari (Pakistan), Buffalo Bob Smith, Marian Galewicz (Poland) Clarabell, Malalay Osman (Afghanistan), and Alicia, Carman and Fernado Albornoz (Ecuador). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

 circa 1950: Mountaineers bivouac at the foot of K-2, waiting for better weather. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

 circa 1955: Two mullahs, Muslim teachers learned in theology and law, reading the Koran in the courtyard of the Golden Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

 circa 1950: People walk along a busy street in lined with street traders in Lahore, Pakistan. Signs written in Punjabi are posted along with ones written in English and a mosque's tower appears in the background. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

 circa 1950: The Mangla Dam under construction over the Jhelum River, near Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The 375 feet high dam will extend for two miles with a volume of 75 million cubic yards when it is completed. It will extend across the river's valley from the Mangla Fort (left). (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

 circa 1950: An Afghani man in Pakistan eating a naan bread. (Photo by Evans/Three Lions/Getty Images)

 circa 1950: The ruins of a large Buddhist shrine, or stupa, containing the bones of a famous local saint, at Saidu Sharif, Swat. (Photo by Richard Harrington/Three Lions/Getty Images)

 30th May 1953: Three and a half year old Timothy Frew compares swords with Captain Iqbal Shah, of the Governor General's bodyguard from Pakistan, in Kensington Gardens, London where the soldiers are camping. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

 circa 1955: A camel in front of earth moving equipment being used in the construction of the Mangla dam on the river Indus. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

 circa 1950: Students at an open-air school in a village in the Indus valley. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

 circa 1950: A water seller in Lahore. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

 4th July 1953: Pakistani prime minister Muhammad Ali being interviewed by Picture Post in London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6580 - Pakistan's Prime Minister - pub. 1953 (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)

 circa 1950: Highly decorated ceiling and walls in the Shish Mahal, Lahore Fort, Pakistan. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

 circa 1955: A Pakistani girl wearing ornate jewellery. (Photo by Evans/Three Lions/Getty Images)

 circa 1955: A sepulchral Islamic monument at the Jhelum river, near Mangla, Pakistan. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

 circa 1955: Pilgrims sitting in the water at a holy well are hoping to cure or ward off disease. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

 Pakistan Diplomat Sir Muhhammad Zafrulla Khan at the SEATO conference. (Photo by Howard Sochurek/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

 Pakistan Diplomat Sir Muhhammad Zafrulla Khan signing the agreement at the SEATO conference. (Photo by Howard Sochurek/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

 Family riding in a cart. (Photo by James Burke/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

 Pakistan Zafrulla Khan signing the Japanese Peace Treaty. (Photo by J. R. Eyerman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

 People, Refugees, pic: circa 1950's, Pakistan, Karachi, Refugees who live on the roadside in makeshift tents in the centre of Karachi, awaiting a settlement with the government (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

People, Refugees, pic: circa 1950's, Pakistan, Karachi, Refugees who live on the roadside in makeshift tents in the centre of Karachi, awaiting a settlement with the government (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

England, 1951, A portrait of Pakistan born British actress Googie Withers on the set of the film 'White Corridor' (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

 London, England, 1951, Pakistan born British actress Googie Withers visits Richmond Royal Hospital to research her role as a doctor in the film 'White Corridors' (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

 A baby girl receives her BCG vaccination against tuberculosis at a United Nations-funded clinic in Pakistan, circa 1950. (Photo by Unations/FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

 An Indian Sindhi woman wearing a sari, India, 1940's. The Sindh province is now part of Pakistan. (Photo by Dinodia Photos/Getty Images)

 People on a rural track in the Punjab region, India, 1940's. (Photo by Dinodia Photos/Getty Images)

 Muhammad Jamal Khan (1912 - 1976, right) Mir of the princely state of Hunza in Pakistan, with his brother Prince Ayesh Khan, during a visit to London, 6th January 1953. (Photo by FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

 Prime Minister of Pakistan Liaquat Ali Khan (1896 - 1951, left) and his wife Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan (1905 - 1990) are greeted by Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent (1882 - 1973) on their arrival in Ottawa, 2nd June 1950. (Photo by FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

 Portrait dated 10 January 1951 of Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan. He was one of the principal architects of the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan in 1947. After independence, he was appointed as the first Prime Minister of Pakistan. He was assassinated in October 1951 under circumstances never fully explained. (Photo credit should read OFF/AFP/Getty Images)

 PAKISTAN - JANUARY 01: In a modern professional training and demonstration center for health services created by U.N.I.C.E.F and the United Nations Fund for Childhood in Karachi, Pakistan, a technician explained the workings of a radioscopy to Afghan women, one veiled with the traditional purdah. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

 INDIA - AUGUST 20: August 20, 1953: Before a meeting in New Delhi, the Muslim Prime Minister of Pakistan and his wife were greeted by the Hindu Prime Minister of India, Pandit NEHRU (on right) at Palam airport. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

 FRANCE - DECEMBER 15: At The Nice Airport, Aga Khan Iii, In A Wheelchair Alongside His Sons, The Princes Sadruddin And Ali, Greeted The Prime Minister Of Pakistan, Nazimuddin, On December 15, 1952. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)



 A guard from Pakistan on duty at Buckingham Palace for the Coronation, 29th May 1953. Various Commonwealth services are in London to help guard the Royal Palaces for the Coronation. (Fred Morley & H Maeers/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

 Pakistan Navy crew members of the sloop 'Jhelum' prepare their uniforms at a camp which has been set-up in Kensington Gardens to accommodate contingents from overseas, May 1953.The Commonwealth troops, airmen, and police will march in the Coronation procession and also help to guard the route. Original Publication : Picture Post 6538 - Commonwealth in Kensington - pub. 13th June 1953. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

 LAHORE, PUNJAB, PAKISTAN - 2014/10/16: Pakistani baby girl gives food to a camel on the eve of World Food Day in Lahore. World Food Day is celebrated every year around the world to commemorate the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1945. (Photo by Rana Sajid Hussain/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

 US and Pakistan delegates at the United Nations, Paris, 1950s. Left to right: Channing Tobias, United States alternate delegate to the UN; Ralph Bunche, director of the UN trusteeship division; Farzand Ali, Pakistan alternate delegate; and Mian Zia-ud-Din, Pakistani delegate. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)


 (Original Caption) Prime Minister Mohammed Ali delivers his monthly broadcast to the Pakistan nation from a Radio Pakistan studio. He cited the Indochina ceasefire agreement, Anglo-Egyptian settlement of the Suez problem, and settlement of the Iranian oil dispute as 'evidences of the dawn of a new era of closer understanding' in international relations.

 (Original Caption) Prime Minister Mohammed Ali of Pakistan (right) is greeted by acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. as he arrives in Washington for top level discussions on U.S. plans for military and economic aid to Pakistan.

 (Original Caption) The five nation United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan meets at Lake Success, January 5, to discuss details for a UN plebiscite in Kashmir, where the commission has achieved success in putting into effect a cease fire order. Left to right, Dr. Alfredo Lozano Agudelo of Columbia; Carlos Alberto Leguizamon, Argentina; Josef Korbel, Czechoslovakia, chairman; Harry Graeffe, Belgium and J. Klahr Huddle, U.S. Ambassador to Burma.

 (Original Caption) 11/16/1950-Lake Success, NY- A giant scoll, bearing one million signatures and calling for the permanent union of Kashmir with Pakistan, is examined by UN Secretary-General Trygve Lie and Inamullah Khan(right), Secretary of the World Muslim Conference. The petition calls for a 'fair and impartial' plebiscite in Kashmir, to determine whether its three and a half million inhabitants prefer Indian or Pakistan's rule.

 (Original Caption) Field Marshal Sir John Harding, chief of the Imperial General Staff, yesterday opened the annual exercies and conference at the staff college, at Camberley. The commanders-in-chief of both the home and overseas commands, as well as dominion commanders-in-chief or their chiefs-of-staff attended. From left outside the college are: Lt. Gen. GI. I. De W. Du Tetit, chief of the South African general staff; Lt. Gen. Sir Sydney R. Rowell, chief of the Austrialian general staff; Field Marshal Sir John Harding; Lt. Gen. G.G. Simmons, chief of the Canadian general staff; General Maharaj Shri Rajendrasinhji, C-I-C, Indian army; Gen. Mohd Ayub Khan, C-IN-C, Pakistan and Brigadier L.W. Thornton, New Zealand army liaison staff.

 (Original Caption) Canadian Leader Visits Pakistan. Karachi, Pakistan: Louis St. Laurent (left), Canadian prime minister, chats with Pakistan's foreign minister, Mohammed Zafrulla Khan, during the Canadian leader's world tour. St. Laurent is visiting a number of strategic countries.

 street scene - the completely veiled woman (Burka) following the husband and child with distance. about 1958 (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
 Pakistan, population: Pashtun of Wasir nation in Waziristan. about 1956 (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
 Pakistan, population: pashtuns of the northwest frontier province. about 1952 (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
 Habib Rahimtoola, the High Commissioner for Pakistan and the Begum, greets Krishna Menon, the Indian High Commissioner, at an Embassy reception. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

 View of the camp on the Baltoro Glacier (8036 m), Pakistan in January 1954. (Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
 Khawaja Nazimuddin (1894 - 1964, right), the Prime Minister of Pakistan, arrives at London Airport for the Commonwealth Economic Conference, 24th November 1952. He is met by British Conservative politician Lord Salisbury (1893 - 1972, left). (Photo by Douglas Miller/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)


 Muhammad Ali Jinnah (right) Lord Mountbatten (centre) and Pandit Nehru discuss partition of India 1946. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

 Educator and member of Pakistan constituent assembly, June 15, 1951. Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah.. (Photo by Los Angeles Examiner/USC Libraries/Corbis via Getty Images)
 Visiting editor from Pakistan, 14 September 1951. Mr K.H. Khurshid, staying at Hollywood Plaza.. (Photo by Los Angeles Examiner/USC Libraries/Corbis via Getty Images)

 Pakistan ambassador (at Biltmore), 17 June 1952. Mohammed Ali (ambassador);Begum Mohammed Ali (wife);Hassan Khayyam (president of local Pakistan group).;Caption slip reads: 'Photographer: Miller. Date: 1952-06-16. Reporter: Adler. Assignment: Pakistan ambassador. L to R Mohammad Ali, ambassador of Pakistan, his wife, Begun Mohammad Ali, and Hassan Khayyam, president of local Pakistan group, at Biltmore dinner'.Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Los Angeles Examiner/USC Libraries/Corbis via Getty Images)

 Visitor from Pakistan, 16 June 1952. Hassan Khayyam;Mayor Fletcher Bowron;Mohammed Ali (ambassador to the USA);Mrs Hassan Khayyam.Los Angeles; California; USA. (Photo by Los Angeles Examiner/USC Libraries/Corbis via Getty Images)

 The Pakistan Army Band Rehearse For The Coronation, In company with the Commonwealth Services ' Coronation contingents, the Pakistan Army Pipe Band is now busily practising at Pirbright Camp (Surrey) in preparation for the part they will play in the magnificent Procession on June 2nd. PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS: Three members of the Pakistan Army Pipe Band, who will be taking part in the Coronation Procession, find a quiet spot in which to rehearse at the Camp at Pirbright (Surrey). Left to right: NIROZ KHAN (Bagpipes); FAZAL KARIM (Chanter); and ABDUL WAHID (Bagpipes), Pirbright Surrey. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Pakistan Guards Take Over At Buckingham Palace, Representatives of the various Commonwealth Services, selected from the contingents in this country for the Coronation, are, in turn, each doing a spell of Guard duty at the Royal Palace, for periods lasting 24 hours. PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS: A Pakistan N.C.O. reading the Orders of the Day to the new Pakistan Guard taking over at Buckingham Palace. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)



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