Join our Whatsapp channel RAWALPINDI: Mohammad Raffique is the last craftsman in Rawalpindi who specialises in the Jinnah cap. A little more than 30 years ago, craftsmen like him worked across ...
The tradition of wearing the Jinnah cap, a cherished element of Peshawar’s rich cultural heritage, is now on the brink of extinction. Once a symbol of pride in a city renowned for its historical ...
One piece of attire has long symbolised Pakistan's national ideology the Jinnah cap. Technically known as the Qaraqul cap, for it is made from the fur of the Qaraqul breed of sheep, the hat is ...
The youngest Indian lawyer to leave Lincoln’s Inn, Muhammad Ali Jinnah was truly a masterpiece; a polished, put-together man.
The cover of Finding Jinnah, a beautifully printed picture of a Jinnah cap with a white background, reminds us of a passage from Milan Kundera’s novel, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. It begins ...
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In the heart of Peshawar’s historic Qissa Khawani Bazaar, where history breathes through the cobbled streets and old tales echo off aging facades, a rich tradition of Jinnah Cap art is quietly fading ...
It’s funny, but there was no one I remembered more than the late P’a Tariq, as we young cub reporters used to call Tariq Ismail, when watching Mian Shehbaz Sharif take oath as Prime Minister. I learnt ...
In his rundown wooden shop in the old Nawab Bazar market of Indian-held Kashmir's capital Srinagar, 29-year-old Muzaffar Ahmad Jan busily sifts through a stack of Karakul skin lying in a corner. Jan ...
A crimson carpet spilled down the steps of the yellow sandstone Sind Provincial Legislative Assembly Building in Karachi. A turbaned, barefoot Moslem carefully dusted it off, pressed it with an ...