Khawar Khan Achakzai
Doctor of Medicine | Student of History | Seeker of Truth | Columnist/Writer @freepressk | Founder @aagoshkashmir |
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Jamia Masjid, Srinagar. Commissioned by Sultan Sikandar in 1394 CE Completed in 1402 CE The space area of the Masjid is 146,000 sq. feet, The Masjid can hold 33,333 persons bes...
Kashmir through centuries. Rare old photos of Kashmir 1/n https://t.co/bQEEhj1BOy
Mirwaiz Mohammad Rasool Shah (1855-1909) Mirwaiz Haji Yahya said, âHe will shine like a sun and enlighten the peopleâ when Rasool Shah, his son, was born. The son would live upto...
Human rights, torture and death: Afghanistan The American Senate intelligence preferred the term âenhanced interrogation techniquesâ to âtortureâ for what would be unleashed on th...
Womenâs rights and Islam When women were resuced to sub-human commodities by the savage Europeans, women in Muslim society had assumed greater roles. Women took part in religion,...
From the earliest known illustrations of Kashmir. Book: âFrom Wall-street to Cashmereâ by John Ireland. Year: 1851-56 Image 1: First view of Kashmir https://t.co/wXo7uFfyPP
Cow slaughter ban in Kashmir. The slaughter of a cow was called âhatyaâ (murder), and the accusation of the practice (hatya haanz) often ended in the most brutal of punishments. (...
Hamim-The Syrian, was the first Muslim to come and live in Kashmir. Date: 100 Hijri (approx) Timeline: Chach Brahman, father of Raja Dahir, usurped the kingdom of Sahasi. The k...
Kashmiri Shawl on European canvas: Monalisa by Da-Vinci painted in 1503. The painting is of Italian noblewoman Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, and is in oil o...
âBadzaat Kashmiriâ coined by the memoir-writers of the Mughals after invading Kashmir and later popularised throughout other non-native regimes. Jean Paul Satre often explains how...
By @_Shafaqshahid Where did you get that pashmeena? So many colors, colors one will never find? -I have woven this with threads I found, from the river to the sea, in a land...
Map Archive Kashmir. 1: Father Monserrateâs Map, 1590. 2: Map by Sanson dâAbbeville, 1652. 3: William Baffinâs map from, 1619. 4: David McCormickâs âAn artist in the Himalayasâ...