The land of five waters gave the world its first cities, its saints and its songs. Broken by every empire that crossed it, it is still ours to remember, and to make whole again.

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Land & Ages

The LandRivers, doabs, Harappa and the first cities, seasons, numbersAgesEight ages of the Punjab, from the Soan to todayTimelineEvery dated event on one lineAtlasEvery place on one map, age by agePlacesCities, ancient sites, temples, mosques and gurdwaras, battlefieldsLanguage & scriptsPunjabi, its dialects, Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi

People & Faiths

PeopleSaints and teachers, poets and singers, rulers, rebels, the people of both PunjabsPeople of the landJats, Rajputs, Arains, Khatris, Dalit communities and more, across every faithFaithsHindu traditions, Islam and the Sufis, Sikhi, and the Punjab's other faiths

Kingdoms & Struggles

Kingdoms & WarsWho ruled the Punjab, the Kingdom of Lahore, and the battles fought over itWho ruled the PunjabEvery ruling power, 518 BCE to todayWars & BattlesFrom the Hydaspes to BasantarStruggles & Partitions1849, 1919, 1947, 1966, 1984, 2020

Culture & Museum

CulturePoets, qisse, songs, music, dance, festivals, foodMuseumSculpture, coins, manuscripts, painting, arms, buildings, and where to see themChronicles & ProphecyThe poetry of the old chroniclesAboutWhat this atlas is, its sources, and every word explainedHelp maintain this siteCorrections, pictures, sources and new entries
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Ishfaq Ahmad
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Ishfaq Ahmad

ਇਸ਼ਫ਼ਾਕ ਅਹਿਮਦاشفاق احمد

Nuclear physicist born in Gurdaspur who led Pakistan's Atomic Energy Commission for ten years.

Ishfaq Ahmad was born in Gurdaspur and moved to Lahore with his family at Partition. He studied physics at Government College Lahore and in Montreal, worked at CERN in Geneva, and became one of the founders of nuclear physics research in Pakistan.

He chaired the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission from 1991 to 2001, the years of Pakistan's first nuclear tests, and was later the government's chief adviser on science.

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