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The mausoleum of Asif Khan, brother of the 16th-century Indian emperor Jahangir, who is buried in another part of the same complex. Jahangir's tomb is tiled and marbled, but this lesser tomb has been stripped almost bare by invading forces and flooding from the nearby river.
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Street traffic in Lahore, Pakistan. Lahore has been the capital of the province of Punjab for nearly a thousand years, and was also the main city of the Moghul Empire. Situated on the River Ravi, Lahore is now the second city of Pakistan and a busy commercial and industrial centre.

Capital of the province of Punjab and second largest city of Pakistan, situated on a tributary of the River Ravi, 50 km/30 mi west of Amritsar in India; population (1998 est) 5,063,500. Lahore is a major industrial centre where about one-fifth of Pakistan's industrial capacity is located. The city is also a commercial and banking centre, and industries include textiles, engineering, carpets, iron and steel, rubber, jewellery, and chemicals. Lahore also has the country's leading film studios. It is associated with the Mogul rulers Akbar, Jahangir, and Aurangzeb, whose capital it was in the 16th and 17th centuries.

History

Akbar (ruler from 1556 to 1605) extended the fort and walled the town, Shah Jahan (ruler from 1628 to 1658) built the palace, and Aurangzeb (ruler from 1658 to 1707) built the large Badshahi mosque. From 1775 Lahore became largely a Sikh town and Ranjit Singh did much to expand its importance. It came under British rule in 1849. Upon partition in 1947, its proximity to the Indian border resulted in much communal violence and destruction. It houses the headquarters of the Muslim League. Rapid change has taken place in the city, with new housing estates growing up fast on the outskirts.

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The finest examples of Mogul art are the Shalimar Gardens, 8 km/5 mi to the east of the city, the Bagh-I-Jinnah gardens, and Jehangir's tomb. Lahore is the home of the University of the Punjab which, founded in 1882, is the country's oldest university, as well as the University of Engineering and Technology, dating from 1961, and a research centre for nuclear energy. Other notable landmarks dating from the period of Mogul rule in the 17th century include the mosque of Wazir Khan and the Pearl and Golden mosques.
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He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher - the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum.
Kim by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
He seemed half mad and told me that the body of a scene-shifter had been found hanging in the third cellar under the stage, between a farm-house and a scene from the Roi de Lahore.
The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux, Gaston View in context
(for officers in the army and navy), he returned at the age of seventeen to India, where he first did strenuous editorial work on newspapers in Lahore, in the extreme northwestern part of the country.
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