(1999 est. pop. 7 million). Lahore is the capital of the Punjab province of Pakistan and is the country's cultural and industrial center and its secondlargest city. There are contrary views as to the origin of its name. According to folklore,...

Coordinates: 31°32′59″N 74°20′37″E / 31.54972, 74.34361 Lahore (help·info) (Urdu: لاہور, Punjabi: لہور, pronounced [lahor]) is the capital of the Punjab and is the second largest city in Pakistan after Karachi. It is...

A MODEST FILLIP of expectation has been imparted by a symbolic gesture of accommodation between India and Pakistan. To open regular passenger service across an otherwise scantily crossed border, Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee took the first bus to Lahore, there to be...

The Lahore Museum was established in 1856 and developed an antiquarian collection on the ancient history of the city. It expanded to include raw produce, manufactured articles and natural history, and later added a School of Art and Technical Institute. When the British...

A description of the poor state of architecture of "Food Street" in Lahore, Pakistan. Most of the houses are a mixture of Colonial and Hindu architecture from the early 20th cenutry.