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In Pakistan, upper and middle-class women in towns wear burqas over their normal clothes in public. [17] [18] The burqa is the most visible dress in Pakistan. It is a garment worn over the ordinary clothes and is made of white cotton. Many upper-class women wear a two-piece burqa which is usually black in colour but sometimes navy blue or dark red.
In the Indian subcontinent, it is called a topi (Bengali: টুপি, Hindi: टोपी, Urdu: ٹوپی) which means hat or cap in general. In Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, and men usually wear the topi with kurta and paijama. In the United States and Britain, many Muslim merchants sell the prayer cap under the name kufi.
Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate were treated to a traditional song and dance in a Pakistani village on Wednesday (October 16). The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited a settlement of ...
The hat is peaked, and folds flat when taken off the wearer's head. Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, Hazara leader in 1944 from Afghanistan, wearing Karakul. The cap is typically worn by Muslim men in Central and South Asia. It was worn by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founding father of Pakistan, where it is known as the Jinnah cap. The karakul, which had ...
Pakol hat of the Chitral Scouts. Craftsmen selling khoi in Gilgit Baltistan. The Pakol or Pakul (Khowar: پاکول, Shina: کھوئی, Persian: پکول, Pashto: پکول) is a soft, flat, rolled-up, round-topped men's cap, usually worn in eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
The hat has strong associations with many Islamic cultures, as well as Pan-African pride. [11] In West Africa, a kufi cap is the traditional hat for men, and is part of the national costume of most of the countries in the region. It is worn by Muslims, and African Christians. Many grandfathers and other older men wear a kufi every day to ...
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr wearing a Sindhi cap. The Sindhi cap originated during the time of the Kalhoras, [citation needed] but It was widely adopted in 19th and 20th century, in Sindh it was initially worn by young boys, because back in time in Sindh, bare head was frowned upon, so young boys used to cover their heads with Sindhi caps, while young and elderly men either wore Sindhi cap under ...