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Showing posts with label 1947. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1947. Show all posts
Saturday, 15 January 2022

Gandhi with Abdul Ghaffar Khan in Peshawar in 1938

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Tuesday, 2 November 2021

Small arms factory in Jamrud , 1947

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Small arms factory in Jamrud where gunsmith is working on a lathe to make barrel of an artillery gun for the Kashmir war, December 1947.Ph...
Monday, 18 October 2021

Nawab Mahbub Ali Khan collecting thumb print signatures of tribesmen from Swat-Ranezai for their agreement to be governed by the state of Pakistan, 1947

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December, 1947. Political agent Nawab Sheikh Mahbub Ali Khan (seated at table) collecting thumb print signatures of tribesmen from Swat-Rane...
Saturday, 4 September 2021

Princely state of Swat, December 1947

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Swat state, December 1947. Caption: "Armed security guards look on as female peasants from the hills, carrying their kitchen utensils ...
Monday, 30 August 2021

George Cunningham meeting the Pashtun Maliks of Khyber, December 1947

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  George Cunningham (Governor of NWFP) speaking to Maliks of Khyber, after his speech to the jirga outside the Khyber House, Peshawar, Decem...
Wednesday, 25 August 2021

The daily exercise of Miangul Abdul Wadud, the founder of the princely state of Swat, was to climb a thousand-foot peak in afternoon

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  The daily exercise of Miangul Abdul Wadud, the founder of the princely state of Swat (now part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan), was to ...
Tuesday, 24 August 2021

Pashtun tribesmen on their way to fight in Kashmir, 1947. Photos taken by Margaret Bourke-White

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On 7 November 1947, about 7,000 Pashtuns were involved in the Kashmir fighting across different fronts—2,000 were Mahsuds, 1,500 A...
Saturday, 14 August 2021

Peshawar, December 1947 : Burqa-clad women watching the first Jirga at Muslim League meeting, at which a tribe acceded to the Government of Pakistan

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Peshawar, December 1947. Caption: "Women at stone wall, watching the first Jirga at Moslem League meeting, at which a tribe acceded to ...
Friday, 10 January 2020

Dragons' Teeth," Tank-traps in the Khyber Pass

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Dragon's teeth are square-pyramidal fortifications of reinforced concrete first used during the Second World War to impede the movemen...