Lahore city
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Lahore is the capital of the Punjab in northeastern Pakistan and is the country's principal commercial and banking centre. Although little industry is located in the city itself, Lahore serves as a distribution centre for the heavily industrialized surrounding area. Products which pass through Lahore include textiles, chemicals, machinery, glassware, and metal, leather and rubber goods.
An educational and cultural centre, the city is the site of the University of the Punjabthe oldest university in Pakistanand the University of Engineering and Technology. There is also an atomic energy research centre located in the city. Lahore is the site of architecturally significant buildings and monuments, many dating from the Mughal Empire (1526-1857), during which the city achieved great prominence.
Lahore's Red Badshahi Mosque
The minarets and red sandstone of the 17th-century Badshahi Mosque dominate the old section of Lahore, capital of Punjab Province in Pakistan. From the 11th to the 17th centuries, this eastern Pakistani city was the hub of the Mogul Empire, and after that the centre of a Sikh kingdom.
In the north Indian subcontinent, especially in Pakistan, Sufi (Islamic religious sect) devotees gather at mosques for religious performances of words and music known as qawwali. The qawwali singer is generally accompanied by a harmonium and the dholak, a small, double-headed drum, or by tablas, a pair of single-headed Indian drums...