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09/10/2025
13/09/2025
13/09/2025
This painting of Islamia College Peshawar is recreated by me from a historic photograph originally painted by Marguerite Tipping, wife of the first , . The college, in 1914 during the British , is celebrated for its Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture. Through this artwork, I aimed to capture not only the architectural splendor of its domes and red-brick façade but also the cultural and historical significance that Islamia College continues to represent.
Special Gift 🎁 by Muhammad Kamran Khan
The Swabi Shawl (Chail) has associated some historical significance in the culture of Swabi as local intellectual says that Yousufzai fought against the Sikh army at Shahmansoor, Swabi during the 1800s. After the battle ended, the women covered the bodies of their martyred men with their shawls as the red blood left smudges on those shawls (Chail). So from that day till now, women of Swabi use Chail with red dots.
In this painting, we can see an overall red circle around which represent the holy dot in the circle has kot with the martyr of pukhtoon yousafzai, and with kot, there was Durban which is the symbol of pukhtoon dignity a sword stained with blood which represents the pukhtoon yousafzai warrior martyr in the battle against sekh...
On the body of the martyr have a white shawl which represents the shawl of the pukhtoon yousafzai female after the war ended they put on martyr's body ...
And white shawl has red dots after touching the martyr and it takes a shape or design which now a day's called swabi chail...
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