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Picture gallery of pottery making, a Hindu Temple and the Museum in Saidpur village

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In Saidpur village i found many local people are engaged in pottery making from last many years. I ask one such man of quite old age about his business. He told me that his father started pottery making and its been  almost a 100 years now since they first started making pottery . He showed me his family museum. In following i am sharing photographs from his collection. There were certain clay items, almost 100 years old. Usually the equipment for operating pottery making is available in each and every community , yet for a successful business, it requires certain outlets and needed to be commercialized. I found many creative items in this man collection, like an aeroplane model, a Windmill, a statue of horse, a water pump, a train, a truck etc apart from the usual pottery stuffs. All these stuff showing the creativity of his nature. pottery stuff 100 years old train made of clay, still in very good shape A clay model of truck Windmill ...

Rohtas Fort Sohail Gate Jhelum Pakistan . A Fort with 12 gates and a royal mosque.

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 Rohtas fort has total 12 gates. It is spread in quite huge area with scattered buildings thus each and every place needs to be describe and non of the place here can be ignored. I am trying to cover some of the gates in my post.  The first gate is known as  " Khwas Khani "  mean the "Gate for the specials", indicating that it was used by emperor and his special army men. This gate is the main entry to the fort but you have to keep driving through this gate until you reach to the parking lot inside the fortress. Inside the fort area lots of houses have been made by the local people, quite enough to be called as a small town.  After parking you may either walk towards " Shah Chand Wali  "gate or towards  "Sohail gate ". The choice is yours. On the left side of Sohail gate, there is "Rohtas Fort Museum" but I couldn't visit the museum because it was closed for visitors. But I was told by the guide that inside the museum has certain ...