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ake place near to the walled-city?

Do residents of walled-city feel safe there?

To which sects most of religious places of walled-city belong?

What sort of rituals performed at these religious places?

What class of people mostly came to these rituals and from where?

Are there any security gaps at these religious places?

Are markets of walled-city are enough able to earn foreign exchange for the nation?

What are the problems faced by these markets?

What is the future of Pir Makki Bazaar, Shah Alam and Anarkali market?

Is government is doing enough work to resolve the issues of these markets?

Methodology

The research material was collected from newspapers such as Express Tribune, The News, The Nation, The Dawn, and Pakistan Today as well as articles available in scholarly website.

We visited three times to walled city Lahore to conduct the interviews from different persons related to different fields. We took 9 interviews which are also captured with digital camera. We also distributed 47 (approximately 50questionnaires) which were distributed in the different localities of Lahore.

Analysis of Data and Discussion

Infrastructural Facilities in Walled City Lahore

Androon Shehar or Old Lahore is the heart of Lahore. Its cultural property is in the form of forts, gateways, mosques, residential buildings, tombs and palaces. Walled city and the thirteen gates is another historical heritage we have. The gates are named after the places they are located in or after a significant building in their vicinity. Old Lahore is facing plenty of problems to which the government of Pakistan has been greatly ignorant. The problem of infrastructure in old Lahore is one of the major economic issues there. People in the walled city have just adopted themselves to the way of life in old Lahore.

Life in walled city is difficult and different compared to the life in new Lahore. The infrastructure facilities are not provided which is a major hindrance for the people there. Infrastructure facilities include proper sewerage system, roads, electricity, telephone lines, transportation and proper waste disposal. Infrastructure facilities like proper waste disposal and sewerage system are of little or no existence in the walled city. People residing in these areas are the only ones to suffer and they complain that more attention is being paid by the government to the people in the areas of Lahore such as, Defence, gulberg, cantt, johar town, etc. The people living in the old Lahore are not well off and so no one bothers helping them.

In this modern time little or no work could be carried out except electricity. Pakistan has been suffering load shedding for the past 3 years. Cities like Lahore, Karachi, and Islamabad suffer less load shedding compared to the other cities in Pakistan. The average amount of load shedding in Lahore is 4 to 6 hours in a day. In the walled city it is 12 to 16, this explains the difference. Electricity results as a major hindrance in their work. Short circuit often occurs resulting in fires.

In the Pir Maki market I interviewed a general secretary of a shop. He claimed that several issues affect his income out of which electricity and narrow roads play the most