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unusual facts about Defence Housing Authority, Lahore



Abdul Rahim Dard

Maulana Abur Rahim Dard, son of Qadir Bakhsh, was born in 1894 in Ludhiana and received his early education there, in Lahore and Patiala and did his M.A.

Amir Adnan

Amir Adnan currently houses its flagship store in Karachi, with complimenting domestic stores in Lahore, Multan, Faisalabad, Islamabad, Gujranwala and Hyderabad .

Baghel Singh

When Sukarchakia Misl (of Maharaja Ranjit Singh) won the territory of Gujranwala, and the areas of Ravi and Chenab Doab and Ramgarhia Misl won the areas of Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Bhangi around Lahore, and Kasur, Karor Singhia Misl declared their ownership of territories now including Ambala, Karnal, Hissar, Rohtak, Chandigarh, etc.

Children Parliament Pakistan

The members are elected from different schools of Islamabad, Peshawar, Faisalabad, Mithi, Kohlu, Balakot, Karachi and Lahore etc.

Defence Housing Authority, Lahore

DHA, like the rest of Lahore, is overflowing with food lovers and has a lot of variety of foods on offer, from fast food chains such as McDonald's, Hardees, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut to upper-scale restaurants specialising in Pakistani and Western cuisine.

Other institutes in the DHA include Ibn-e-Sina College (named after the philosopher), the Lahore Alma School, and Lahore Grammar School, which has branches all over Lahore.

Delhi conspiracy case

The Delhi Conspiracy case, also known as the Delhi-Lahore Conspiracy, refers to a conspiracy in 1912 to assassinate the then Viceroy of India, Lord Hardinge, on the occasion of transferring the capital of British India from Calcutta to New Delhi.

Designers of Pakistani stamps

Over the last 60 years, various people have designed Pakistani stamps with many graduates of the National College of Arts (earlier Mayo School of Arts), Lahore.

Dharam Ablashi

Ablashi was born in Lahore, India (now in Pakistan) and earned his Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine at Panjab University Veterinary College.

Fighter kite

Kite fighting is common in all over Pakistan, but mainly concentrated in cities of Punjab and Sindh region including Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Karachi, Islamabad etc.

Garden Town

Garden Town was acquired in 1960 by the Lahore Development Authority, which at that time was called the Lahore Improvement Trust.

George Russell Clerk

He thus worked as an Assistant to the President in Rajputana and Delhi, before being posted as Political Agent at Ambala and subsequently at Ludhiana in 1839 and Lahore in 1840.

Guides Infantry

The Corps of Guides was raised at Peshawar on 14 December 1846 by Lieutenant Harry Burnett Lumsden on the orders of Sir Henry Lawrence, the British Resident at Lahore, capital of the enfeebled Sikh Empire.

Halwa poori

The food originated in northern India mainly in Uttar Pradesh and in modern day Pakistani Punjab and Indian Punjab and usually in Uttar Pradesh and Pakistani Punjab it is eaten as a breakfast on weekends in cities like Lahore, Faisalabad and in many other cities.

Heer clan

Majha is a historical region of the Punjab comprising the modern districts of Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Tarn Taran in the Indian State of Punjab and the districts of Lahore and Kasur in the Pakistani province of Punjab.

Institute of International Education

Current REACs are located in the following cities around the world: Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Budapest, Kyiv, Bratislava, Amman, Accra, Johannesburg, Lahore, Delhi, Beijing, Tokyo, and Kuala Lumpur.

Islamnagar

Islamnagar, Lahore, neighbourhood in Gulberg Town in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

Jammu–Sialkot Line

The writer of Pakistan's first national anthem, Jagan Nath Azad, a Hindu, was forced to leave Lahore due to the escalating violence between Hindus and Muslims.

Jamrud

In 1837 when the Sikh army was concentrated at Lahore to celebrate the marriage of Kawar Nau Nihal Singh, the grandson of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Afghans sensing the opportunity and led by Akbar Khan laid the siege to Jamrud, trapping about one thousand Sikh troops with Afghans army of twenty to twenty five thousands troops.

John Mildenhall

On 7 June 1600 Mildenhall left Aleppo with an entourage of six hundred people and, travelling through Bir, Urfa, Diabekir, Butelis, Van, Nakhichevan, Julfa, Sultanieh, Kazvin, Kum, Kashan, Kirman, Sistan and Kandahar, he reached Lahore in 1603.

Khwaja Mohammad Azhar Khan

K.M. Azhar died at the Combined Military Hospital in Lahore on 29 October 2006 when he was admitted to the hospital after receiving a head injury while performing ablution for prayers.

Krishna Mandir demolition reports

In May 2006, newspapers reported the demolition of Krishna Mandir, a Hindu temple located in Lahore, Pakistan.

Lahore Zoo

In early November 2010, Lahore Zoo received 53 falcons which were being illegally transported to Qatar from Benazir Bhutto International Airport.

Launea nudicaulis

Launea nudicaulis is a species of plant which is endemic to India where it is known under a common name bhatal and is found in Hazara, Mansehra, Multan, Rawalpindi and Scinde districts of Punjab and Lahore.

Malik

- ul-Mulk (or ul-Molk): - of the kingdom; e.g. Malik Usman Khan, who served the Sultan of Gujarat as Governor of Lahore, received the title of Zubdat ul-Mulk 'best of the kingdom' as a hereditary distinction, which was retained as part of the style of his heirs, the ruling Diwans (only since 1910 promoted to Nawab) of Palanpur.

Martung

A large number of people go to big cities of the country like Lahore and Karachi for seeking low level jobs like watch men, waiters in restaurants and labourers.

Miran Bux

Known throughout his playing career as Miran Bux, he was aged 47 years, 284 days when he played his first Test (against India at Lahore), making him the second oldest Test debutant, behind James Southerton.

Mirza Shahrukh Javaid Jah

He was born in Lahore,Pakistan on 15 April 1978.He is the eldest son of Mirza Ghulam Moinuddin Javaid Jah Bahadur& Nawabzadi Malahat Beghum Sahiba.

Mohammed Al Afghani

Muhammad Rahim al Afghani, captured in Lahore in 2008, transferred to Guantanamo

Muhammad Abdullah Noorani

Muhammad Abdullah Noorani grew up in an educated environment, and became interested in Islamic sciences, studying under a number of scholars in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan.

Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan

Sajeel Shahid, a British Muslim widely described as a founder or leader of an organization of British Muslims who supported or engaged in Jihad, said he befriended Noor Khan whil they were bothe held in Lahore.

Muhammad Zafarullah Khan

As an active member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Zafarullah Khan held the office of president of the Lahore, Pakistan chapter of the community from 1919 to 1935.

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences

It became the first multi-campus university of Pakistan with campuses in Islamabad, Karachi, Peshawar and Lahore.

Naya Kashmir

The actual writing of this memorandum took place in "Delhi Hotel" at Lahore and at Mr.Bedi's residence at Model Town Lahore.

Orakzai

Due to limited resources and fertile land, many Orakzai have settled in Pakistan's major urban centres such as Hangu, Thall, Parachinar, Tirah, Peshawar, Attock, (Nowshera-Amangarh) Islamabad,Battagram-Allai, Wazirabad, Lahore, Abbottabad and Karachi.

Pakistan Music Stars

Latif Ali (Hyderabad) - Latif (due to some personal problems) was later replaced by Zain Hassan from Lahore.

Pakistani meat dishes

Barbecued food is also extremely popular in some cities of Punjab such as Lahore, Gujranwala and Sialkot.

Pir Syed Muhammad Binyamin Rizvi

Pir Syed Muhammad Binyamin Rizvi received a degree in civil engineering from the G.C.T Government College of Technology, Lahore in 1980.

Punjab Games

Second Punjab Games 2005 were scheduled to be held in Lahore, the provincial capital of Western Punjab in December 2005; and were postponed, and eventually cancelled, due to 2005 Kashmir earthquake.

Rama Tirtha

After receiving a master's degree in mathematics from The Government College of Lahore he became professor of mathematics at Forman Christian College, Lahore.

Roderick Weusthof

Weusthof was part of the Dutch national team for the 2004 Champions Trophy in Lahore where the Dutch won the silver medal.

Shalamar Hospital

Shalamar Hospital, established in 1982 and named after the historical Shalimar Gardens, is a private hospital located on Shalimar Link Road, Shalimar Town, Lahore, Pakistan.

Shalamar Medical and Dental College

Shalamar Medical and Dental College (abbreviated as SMDC, SHMC or SHMDC), established in 2009 and named after the historical Shalimar Gardens, is a private college of medicine and dentistry located on Shalimar Link Road, Shalimar Town, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

Shazia

Shazia Manzoor, singer from Rawalpindi, later moved to Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Sial, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Its population is around 1000 many of its inhabitants have moved to Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad.

Sozo Water Park

Sozo Water Park is a water park located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

Ved Mehta

Ved Parkash Mehta (born March 21, 1934) is a writer who was born in Lahore, British India (now a Pakistani city) to a Hindu family.

Yousaf Saleem Chishti

He has very close relations with Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Allama Muhammad Iqbal, he used to attend meetings in Javid Manzil, Lahore (Allama Muhammad Iqbal's residence).

Zain Khan Sirhindi

In January 1764, Ahmad Shah Durrani led his sixth expedition to assist Sadat Yar Khan of Doab and Zain Khan Sirhindi and his Mughal Army which was later overrun outside Sirhind, by 36,000 Sikh rebels led by the notorious Jassa Singh Ahluwalia, who plundered Lahore and the upper Doab.

Zem Zem

Zamzama, a cannon outside Lahore Museum, immortalized by Rudyard Kipling in his novel Kim


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