NPR feature describes Lahore High Court square as a rest spot for lawyers

The Lahore High Court stands in the British-built quarters of Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city, according to NPR. NPR correspondent Diaa Hadid wrote that she is always eager for an excuse to visit it. She described the building as a near-perfect specimen of British South Asian colonial architecture.

Hadid wrote that Mughal-style curly arches frame the porticos and that Gothic detail appears in red brick. She reported that the brick was baked in kilns on the city's outskirts. Inside, she wrote, Pakistani lawyers in uniforms of white shirts and black suits rush between courtrooms.

According to Hadid, the lawyers rest in the main square, gathering for chatter and chai under banyan trees that shade them. She described the square as a contrast to what she called the wheezy, heavily polluted city around it.

Hadid wrote that Lahore has far fewer trees outside its elite quarters. She described this as a signal of a broader crisis in Pakistan, where she said there is one standard for the masses and another for those who hold power.

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