History Badshahi Mosque Lahore - Pakistan

The Badshahi Mosque is located in the heart of Lahore city, commissioned by the sixth Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1671 and completed in 1673. Today, Badshahi Mosque is the second largest mosque in Pakistan, South Asia and fifth largest mosque in the world. Some of other Mosques are bigger then Badshahi Mosque Like Masjid al-Haram of Mecca, Al-Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina, Hassan Mosque in Casablanca and Faisal Mosque in Islamabad - Pakistan. Epitomising the beauty, passion and grandeur of the Mughal era, it is Lahore's most famous landmark and a major tourist attraction.
To appreciate its large size, the four minarets of the Badshahi Mosque are 13.9 ft (4.2 m) taller than those of the Taj Mahal and the main platform of the Taj Mahal can fit inside the 278,784 sq ft (25,899.9 m2) courtyard of the Badshahi Mosque, which is the largest mosque courtyard in the world.

History of Derawar Fort, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

To the southeast of Dera Nawab, on the edge of the Cholistan Desert, make an exciting day's outing from either Ahmadpur East or Bahawalpur. The massive fort towers over the surrounding semi-desert and is visible from miles around. The huge walls, supported by enormous round buttresses, stand 40 meters (130 feet) high and are 1.5 kilometers (a mile) in circumference.
Derawar Fort is a large square fortress in Pakistan near Bahawalpur. The forty bastions of Derawar are visible for many miles in Cholistan Desert. The walls have acircumference of 1500 metres and stand up to thirty metres high.
The first fort on the site was built by Hindu Rajput, Rai Jajja Bhati of Jaisalmer. It remained in the hands of the royal family of Jaisalmer until captured and completely rebuilt by the nawabs of Bahawalpur in 1733. In 1747, the fort slipped from the hands of the Abbasis owing to Bahawal Khan's preoccupations at