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Pakistan cities
The country
Names sit in the list — not on top of each other. Hover a city, see it on the map.
Multan — City of Saints. Six gates, blue tile, mango dust. Flagship desk — Buch Villas to Haram Gate.
Tonight in Pakistan
20:00 · Free
Gulgasht Colony · Multan
20:00 · Free
Food Street · Lahore
19:00 · Free
Saidpur Village · Islamabad
20:30 · Free
Do Darya · Karachi
18:00 · Free
Multan Cantonment · Multan
20:15 · Free
Badshahi Mosque · Lahore
17:00 · Free
Super Market F-6 · Islamabad
21:30 · Free
Burns Road · Karachi
18:20 · Free
Lohari Gate · Multan
20:00 · Free
MM Alam Road · Lahore
PB
Live
City of Saints. Six gates, blue tile, mango dust. Flagship desk — Buch Villas to Haram Gate.
PB
Live
Badshahi at night, Food Street, the old city still open.
IS
Live
Faisal Mosque, Margallas, the planned capital after dark.
SD
Live
Arabian Sea, Clifton, the city that does not sleep.
City of Saints · Punjab
Five thousand years on a mound. Six gates in the wall. Blue tile on red brick. Mangoes that have a season and shrines that do not. This desk starts here — Buch Villas, DHA, Model Town, Cantt, Gulgasht, then the doors: Haram, Pak, Delhi, Bohar, Lohari, Daulat.
Shah Rukn-e-Alam’s tomb (1320–24) is the three-tiered red-brick octagon on the fort: battered Tughluq walls, eight corner towers, dark shisham beams, blue-and-white Multani tile, a white dome. Bahauddin Zakariya’s shrine sits nearby. Musa Pak is inside Pak Gate. Urs is not a festival imported for tourists — it is the city’s calendar. Over a hundred thousand people still walk for Rukn-e-Alam.
The Faseel-e-Multan, rebuilt in 1756 and under restoration now, still has six named doors, anti-clockwise: Lohari, Bohar, Haram, Pak, Delhi, Daulat. Between them: forty-seven stairways in the wall — a second city stacked on brick. Bloody Bastion sits on the turn between Pak and Delhi, a name the British siege left. Walk the wall at maghrib. That is the culture, not a brochure.
Multani kaashi — cobalt and turquoise on brick — is the city’s colour. So is dust. So is the Chaunsa mango in summer. The old bazaar at Hussain Agahi still sells cloth, gold, pickle, and blue pottery in the same breath as a naat. New Multan (Bosan, Gulgasht, Buch Villas, DHA) eats later and drives more. Both are the city.
Saraiki is the ground language; Punjabi and Urdu sit on top. Qawwali at the shrines, dholak in wedding streets, the azan off the Faseel. Nights in the walled city are walking nights. Nights in Cantt and Buch Villas are verandah nights. X files both.
Eat
Hear
Walk
The six gates
Gate
The ladies’ door of the old wall — now a living street.
Gate
Named for Hazrat Musa Pak. The saint’s last entry.
Gate
The Mughal road. Dignitaries came this way.
Gate
Named for the banyan grove. Trade still comes through.
Gate
Blacksmiths, or the road to Lahore. Both stories hold.
Gate
Dolat Darwaza. The turn of the wall, then Bloody Bastion.
Zameen — the neighbourhoods
colony
Planned villas, neem shade, the new Multan evening.
colony
Defence Housing. The southern planned city.
colony
Tree streets, family houses, a known address.
cantt
The cantonment. Trees, clubs, a slower clock.
colony
Gulgasht Colony. Bosan Road’s living room.
bazaar
The old city’s commercial heart.
shrine
The red-brick octagon on the fort. The city’s sign.
