Mazar-e-Quaid is the mausoleum of Pakistan’s founder Muhammed Ali Jinnah, otherwise known as Quaid-e-Azam or Baba-e-Qaum. It is located in Karachi, Jinnah’s places of birth and death and Pakistan’s largest city.

Born in 1876, Muhammed Ali Jinnah was an Indian Muslim politician who founded modern day Pakistan and then served as its first Governor General after it split from India in 1947. Jinnah is revered in modern day Pakistan and many institutions are named after him, including the country’s busiest airport in Karachi.

Shortly after Jinnah’s death on 11 September 1948 construction began on the Mazar-e-Quaid mausoleum. Pakistan army soldiers guard the mausoleum and at certain times perform ceremonial movements to the tune of Last Post (see video).

The photograph portrait illustrates three Pakistani soldiers in military uniform moving in a choreographed display for the mausoleum visitors. Each guard is holding their bayoneted rifle and wearing their name tags proudly. The mausoleum’s straight-edged light grey marble provides a contrast to the soldiers’ black hats and shoes, light blue long sleeve shirts, dark teal pants and road white belts.