Heritage of Pakistan

The most elegant building and the prime attraction in Uch is the tomb of Bibi Jind Waddi. Her name has been described by Bibi Jalwandi and Bibi Jind Waddi as well.   Since Jind Waddi is a popular name in this region so we believe, this name would be the most appropriate.   It is described by the historians that her mausoleum was built in 1494. The basic structure of her tomb is built by bricks, embellished with stunning glazed tile mosaic. The building is erected in three octagonal stories with lower storey supported by rounded and sloping corner turrets. The second storey was supported with a narrow gallery for walking round and the third is a hemispherical dome, which crowns the building.   There is an aesthetically carved wooden mehrab in the West wall. Basically it follows the typical pattern of Multani architecture on which the tombs of Hazrat Rukn-e-Alam and the Baha-ud-Deen Zakria are built.   The outside walls of the tomb are completely covered...

One of the most important   Neolithic   (7000 BCE to c. 2500 BCE) sites in   archaeology , lies on the "Kachi plain" of now Balochistan ,   Pakistan . It is one of the earliest sites with evidence of farming (wheat and barley) and herding (cattle, sheep and goats) in South Asia." Mehrgarh is located near the   Bolan Pass , to the west of the   Indus River   valley and between the now Pakistani cities of   Quetta ,   Kalat   and   Sibi . The site was discovered in 1974 by an archaeological team directed by French archaeologist   Jean-François Jarrige , and was excavated continuously between 1974 and 1986, and again from 1997 to 2000. The earliest settlement at Mehrgarh—in the northeast corner of the 495-acre (2.00 km 2 ) site—was a small farming village dated between 7000   BCE   to 5500   BCE  and the whole area covers a number of successive settlements. Archaeological material has been found i...

Kafir Kot  is an ancient ruin in  Dera Ismaeil Khan KPK province . According to the district Gazetteer of Mianwali of 1915 the remains of Kafirkot (and the nearby ruin of Mari) "are indication of the existence of a Hindu civilization of considerable importance and antiquity". It is located at 32°30'0N 71°19'60E. The ruin consists of two forts in the north-west of the district on small hills attached to the lower spurs of the   Khasor Range , and overlooking the   Indus River . One lies a few miles south of   Kundal   and the other near   Bilot . According to the District Gazetteer of Mianwali, these forts are of great antiquity and interest. Their main features are an outer defensive wall, consisting of rough blocks of stone, some of great size, and  various groups of buildings resembling small Hindu temples and more or less carved. These are built of a curiously honey-combed drab-coloured stone not to be fo...