In the first decade of the 20th century, present-day Chakwal city had a population of just 7,000 and one middle school. It wasn’t until 1910 that wealthy Sikh residents laid the foundation for the ...

CHAKWAL, Nov 20: Battling poor health, a 91-year-old teacher and historian of Chakwal misses his son who died young and how history was being lost in his village, Bhoun. Bhoun, a Sanskrit word which ...

We start our journey on foot from the doorways of our ancestral home on Allah Da’d street, located across from Sarpak (meaning ‘pure ground’ in Urdu). I visit Chakwal occassionally and we always spend ...

The history of Chakwali music, locally called dhol geet, is as old as Chakwal itself. All songs in dhol geet are created by local poets and their singers do not use mics or modern musical instruments ...