At Wagah border, white sculptures, a Partition rail scene recast Lahore’s frontier previous walks beside current
The newly-built museum on the Wagah Border area in Lahore. Pictures: Categorical
LAHORE:
At Lahore’s Wagah Border, a newly-built area has opened with a museum that makes an attempt to bottle the nation’s stressed historical past, tracing the story from the independence motion to the current day with a blunt, unsentimental eye.
Central to the advanced is a theme park constructed across the upheaval of the Partition, the place white statues clamber throughout an previous railway engine and carriages, lifting baggage, steadying kids and saying farewells on platforms that after marked an unsure escape.
Close by, extra figures trudge with bundles balanced on shoulders, ox-carts creaking underneath possessions, and households inching ahead collectively. Fashions of army gear and a martyrs’ memorial sit alongside, reminding guests that the state’s formation got here at a heavy, measurable price.
Contained in the Pakistan Museum, curated shows map politics, tradition and conflicts from the independence motion onward, stitching collectively images, artefacts and narratives to current a timeline that refuses nostalgia and locations truth, reminiscence and consequence aspect by aspect.
Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif inaugurated the newly constructed area on the Wagah Border in Lahore, at a ceremony this week attended by Punjab ministers and senior civil and army officers.
The occasion, organised by Pakistan Rangers Punjab on the Joint Verify Submit, marked completion of the growth mission, which has raised seating capability from 7,500 to 25,000 spectators and added new buildings throughout the location at Wagah.
The mission additionally offers further workplace areas, barracks for Punjab Rangers personnel, a delegated prayer space, meals courts and a big parking facility. An Alamgiri Gate impressed by Lahore Fort now stands at Bab-e-Azadi, framing the raised nationwide flag.
The nationwide flag on the Joint Verify Submit, beforehand put in at a peak of 115 metres, has now been raised to 139 metres. The flag is ranked because the seventh tallest in Asia and the tallest in South Asia.
It’s pertinent to notice that the growth mission was initiated in June 2024 by then caretaker Punjab chief minister Mohsin Naqvi. On the time of its launch, the estimated price of the mission was Rs30 billion.
