Jallo Park

Jallo Park (sometimes called Jallo Wildlife Park), established in 1978,^[2] is a publicrecreation and wildlife site located in Lahore District, Punjab, Pakistan. Spread over an area of 456 acres (185 ha),^[1] it is one of the three main wildlife parks located in Lahore, the other two being Changa Manga and Lahore Zoo Safari. The park is 28 kilometres (17 mi) east to Lahore city. Facilisites at Jallo Park include a forest research centre, wildlife breeding center, sports complex, swimming pool, and boating lake. It is currently funded by Punjab Wildlife and Parks Department of Government of Punjab.

    

Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park

The Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park (Urdu: گلشن-اقبال پارک) is a large park and recreational space inLahore, Pakistan. With an area of over 67 acres (270,000 m²), the park is one of the largest in the city; it is situated in the suburban locality of Allama Iqbal Town. The name Gulshan-e-Iqbal is literally translated as "the garden of Iqbal," referring to Iqbal, the national poet of Pakistan. It has many swings like Discovery and striking cars The Park Also have a vast artificial lake. In recent times, complaints have been made over the park's management and maintenance - something which the public blames on the negligence of the city administration.

Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore

Iqbal Park

Iqbal Park (formerly Minto Park) is large area of green space, located at the heart of Lahore city in Pakistan.^[1] The park accommodates Minar-e-Pakistan (Lighthouse of Pakistan), a 60 meters (198.5 feet) tall distinctive monument in the shape of a minaretthat has been built in commemoration of the Lahore Resolution passed at the three-day general session (22–24 March 1940) of All India Muslim League, calling for greater Muslim autonomy in British India. The resolution became synonymous to the demand for a separate Muslim state of Pakistan.

Entering the Park	Lush grounds	View of Badshahi Mosque	View of Samadhi of Ranjit Singh
Minar-e-Pakistan	Street scene	Walking trail	Tourist buses

Bagh-e-Jinnah

Bagh-e-Jinnah (Urdu: باغ جناح ) (or Jinnah's Garden) is a historical park in the city of Lahore, Pakistan. It was formerly known asLawrence Gardens. Today, the large green space contains a botanical garden, a mosque, and Quaid-e-Azam Library^[1] situated in aVictorian building.

There are also entertainment and sports facilities within the park: an open-air theatre, a restaurant, tennis courts and the Gymkhana Cricket Ground. It is located on Lawrence Road next to Lahore Zoo, directly across from theGovernor's House on The Mall.

Past - Lawrence Gardens

Originally built as botanical garden modelled on Kew Gardens, it was named after John Lawrence, Viceroy of India from 1864 to 1869.^[2]The place used to hold his statue, which was later moved to Foyle and Londonderry College in Northern Ireland.

A fountain in the Bagh-e-Jinnah park

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Present - Bagh-e-Jinnah

Jinnah Garden Lahore that is situated on 141 acres (0.57 km²) at this time, earlier it was in 176 acres (0.71 km²), but the land was given to Lahore zoo, botanical garden govt. college university Lahore and to roads alongside the garden. Now it is almost the plant area except roads building is 121 acres (0.49 km²). It is most beautiful and well managed botanical garden in Pakistan.

It has almost 150 varieties of trees, 140 types of shrubs, 50 types of creepers, 30 palms, almost 100 succulent and about same indoor along with almost all varieties of annual flowers. The garden has a good name in Chrysanthemum shows, it was the first institute that started growing chrysanthemum and maximum no of varieties for it. It has 3 nurseries, 4 hilloaks in it.

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Information and services

• Bagh-e-Jinnah has two libraries, Quaid-e-Azam library and Darusalam in it.
• Regarding collection of trees, shrubs and climbers a book has been published by Ch. Muhammad Tariq (DDA Jinnah Garden, Muhammad Ramzan Rafique (Agricultural Officer)and Dr. Muhammad Afzal (Instructor). (Flora of Jinnah Garden) This book contains common name, botanical name, flower time, type of plant(deciduous or evergreen), flowering color of each plant along with its picture. Furthermore this book contains selective pictures from palm garden, annual flowers in this garden. This book can be obtained from the office of Jinnah Garden.

• Bagh-e-Jinnah park hosts a famous cricket ground since 1885, built for the entertainment of government officers and civil servants.^[3]The ground maintained its Test Status from 1955 till 1959^[4] when the venue moved to Gaddafi Stadium.
• The park receives a nostalgic mention of the 1970s and 1980s life in Bano Qudsia's remarkable urdu novel Raja Gidh.
• The Park has a Tomb of Shia' Sufi Known as Baba Turat Muraad Shah, with a heavy number of visitors.

     

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