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At this time, Pakistani fashion is a combination of traditional and modern styles and it has become the cultural identification of Pakistan. Despite all modern trends, the regional and traditional dresses have developed their own significance as a symbol of native tradition. This regional fashion is not static but evolving.
February 17: Former president Pervez Musharraf appeared in front of a civil court for the first time. March 1: The Pakistan Taliban announces a one-month ceasefire aimed at reviving peace talks. March 2: Pakistani military bombs the hideout of a Taliban militant leader killing five insurgents. 3 March: Islamabad court attack, 11 killed.
The national dress of Pakistan is the Persian origin shalwar kameez, a unisex garment widely-worn around South Asia, [60] [61] and national dress, [62] of Pakistan. When women wear the shalwar-kameez in some regions, they usually wear a long scarf or shawl called a dupatta around the head or neck. [63]
After the Partition of India in 1947, the Spanish city of Ceuta received a substantial influx of Sindhi Hindus from current-day Pakistan. [2] Even though diplomatic relations between both countries were established relatively early after the birth of the state of Pakistan, they lacked in real substance for quite a while. [3]
Possibly the earliest existing scrap of tartan known today is a 16th-century piece found in a bog in Glen Affric, Scotland, which the V&A Dundee studied before the exhibition. The Scottish Tartans ...
By 1893, all modern Pakistan was part of the British Indian Empire, and remained so until independence in 1947. [140] Under the British, modern Pakistan was mostly divided into the Sind Division, Punjab Province, and the Baluchistan Agency. There were various princely states, of which the largest was Bahawalpur.
A Spanish style of the later 15th century was still worn in this period: the hair was puffed over the ears before being drawn back at chin level into a braid or wrapped twist at the nape. First-time brides wore their hair loose, in token of virginity, and a wreath or chaplet of orange blossoms was traditional.
A 17th–century Dutch map of the Americas. The historiography of Spanish America in multiple languages is vast and has a long history. [1] [2] [3] It dates back to the early sixteenth century with multiple competing accounts of the conquest, Spaniards’ eighteenth-century attempts to discover how to reverse the decline of its empire, [4] and people of Spanish descent born in the Americas ...