Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Pakistan Archives

  The 'Monster of British Goods' mounted on a camel cart--one of the many figures constructed and paraded during a Gandhi demonstration in the Rambagh here. After the demonstration was over the 'monster' was burned\
 The Khyber Pass 
 Afghan Horse Dealers
 A lithograph by Charles Harding of a scene outside Emperor Jahangir's tomb near to Lahore in Pakistan 
 A British Soldier Injured in Waziristan 
 Khojak Tunnel in Pakistan 
 A railway official checks crates full of important government documents that India sends to Pakistan, India.

A man wearing a flower necklace, carries a bag full of smuggled salt, in Karachi, Pakistan.
 US Vice President Richard M. Nixon, 2nd from right, is welcomed by President Iskander Mirza at the President's house, during his four hour stop over here. Acting Foreign Minister Habib Ibrahim Rahimtoola, (L), and acting Prime Minister Ismail Chundrigar, (R), greeted Nixon at the airport. The Pakistani President and the US Vice President talked privately for about two hours.


KARACHI, PAKISTAN - NO DATE: Protesters are arrested by police in Karachi, Pakistan.
 Clothing, fashion in India, from 1600-1800, in Baluchistan and Afghanistan, from left, two chains, chiefs from Baluchistan, then a soldier from the border between Baluchistan and Afghanistan, a mountain dweller from Baluchistan, then a woman from Kabul and a Hindu from Peshawar, digital improved reproduction from an original from the year 1900

 ) Karachi, Pakistan- 'Right this way, ladies and gentlemen, to see the real Indian snake charmers---step right up, folks, don't be afraid, they can't hurt you---more than once]' I 
 Mahatma Gandhi talks to Reverend A. M. Dalaya, the Principal of King Edward's College in Peshawar. Gandhi has come to talk to the students at the college
  A photograph of Lieutenant-General Sir Samuel James Browne [1824-1901] with his staff at his headquarters in Gandamack, Afghanistan, taken by John Burke [1845-1900] in May 1879. 
 A photograph by John Burke [1845-1900] of a camel train at the entrance to the Khyber pass at Shaadi Bazaar, taken about 1878 and published in the album 'The Afghan War, Attock to Jellalabad, Gandamak and Surkhab

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