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PESHAWAR: Legendary late actor Dilip Kumar‘s ancestral home in Pakistan‘s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a national heritage, is almost on the verge of collapse after being severely damaged in recent rains, an official has said.
The torrential rains exposed tall claims of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Archive Department about rehabilitation and renovation of the house.
Kumar was born in 1922 in the house, located in Mohallah Khudadad near the historic Qissa Khwani Bazar in Peshawar city, and spent his initial 12 years here before leaving for India in 1932.
The house was declared Pakistan’s national heritage monument on July 13, 2014, by then-PM Nawaz Sharif. Kumar had visited his house once and sentimentally kissed the soil.
Shakeel Waheedullah Khan, secretary of heritage council KPK province, said the recent rains badly damaged the house, and despite the previous KPK govt pledging so many grants, not a single penny had been spent to protect and preserve it. The property was built in 1880.
The torrential rains exposed tall claims of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Archive Department about rehabilitation and renovation of the house.
Kumar was born in 1922 in the house, located in Mohallah Khudadad near the historic Qissa Khwani Bazar in Peshawar city, and spent his initial 12 years here before leaving for India in 1932.
The house was declared Pakistan’s national heritage monument on July 13, 2014, by then-PM Nawaz Sharif. Kumar had visited his house once and sentimentally kissed the soil.
Shakeel Waheedullah Khan, secretary of heritage council KPK province, said the recent rains badly damaged the house, and despite the previous KPK govt pledging so many grants, not a single penny had been spent to protect and preserve it. The property was built in 1880.
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