Back منارة باكستان Arabic Minar-e-Pakistan Azerbaijani মিনারে পাকিস্তান Bengali/Bangla Minar-e-Pakistan German Turo de Pakistano Esperanto Minar-e-Pakistan Finnish Minar-e-Pakistan French מינרט פקיסטן HE मीनार-ए-पाकिस्तान Hindi Minar-e-Pakistan ID
| Minar-e-Pakistan | |
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مَنارِ پاکستان مینارِ پاکستان | |
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| General information | |
| Status | National Tower of Pakistan |
| Type | Public monument |
| Location | Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Address | Greater Iqbal Park, Circular Road, Lahore |
| Coordinates | 31°35′33″N 74°18′34″E / 31.5925°N 74.3095°E |
| Construction started | 23 March 1960 |
| Completed | 21 October 1968 |
| Height | |
| Roof | 70 metres (230 ft) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Nasreddin Murat-Khan |
| Structural engineer | A. Rehman Niazi |
| Services engineer | Mian Abdul Ghani Mughal |
| Main contractor | Mian Abdul Khaliq company |
Minar-e-Pakistan (Punjabi: مَنارِ پاکستان, romanized: Manār-e-Pākastān; Urdu: مینارِ پاکستان, romanized: Mīnār-e-Pākistān; lit. 'Tower of Pakistan') is a public monument tower located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.[1] The tower was built between 1960 and 1968 on the site where the All-India Muslim League passed the Lahore Resolution (which was later called the Pakistan Resolution) on 23 March 1940 – the first official call for a separate and independent homeland for the Muslims of British India, as espoused by the two-nation theory. The resolution eventually helped lead to the creation of Pakistan in 1947.[2]
The tower is located in the middle of an urban park, called the Greater Iqbal Park.[3]
- ^ "Address of Minar-e-Pakistan". Google Maps. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- ^ https://www.economy.pk/minar-e-pakistan-a-historical-monument
- ^ Khan, Ahmed Z. (1 March 2013). "On Design and Politics of Co-producing Public Space: The Long Marches and the Reincarnation of the 'Forecourt' of the Pakistani Nation". International Journal of Islamic Architecture. 2 (1): 125–156. doi:10.1386/ijia.2.1.125_1. S2CID 152739234.