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Mon, 8 Oct 2007 | By damonlk | Views [404] | Comments [2]
Pakistan held its Presidential elections on Saturday. While the results surprised few, Musharraf's ongoing constitutional ability to lead remains before the Supreme Court. It is not certain how much attention Musharraf will pay the lawyers - ... Read more >
Tags: people
Tue, 2 Oct 2007 | By rprip | Views [194] | Comments [1]
Oh, Pakistan....a distant memory now....a place we first had sheep cheese pie and yak bbq. Obviously my "I only eat chicken diet" has been put on hold for experimental purposes...and to not offend the hosts. When Kelly and I reflect on Pakistan ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Mon, 1 Oct 2007 | By damonlk | Views [356] | Comments [3]
The twin cities of Islamabad/ Rawalpindi sit about 300 km northwest of Lahore on the edge of both the NWFP [North West Frontier Province, a rag tag collection of government control and autonomous tribal areas] and Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan’s ... Read more >
Tags: on the road
Mon, 24 Sep 2007 | By damonlk | Views [370]
Shakeel is fifteen years old. His father, Mr. Haneef, is the chowkidar [caretaker] at the hostel I stay in. In any case they live together in a small flat at the back of the complex with their mother, two brothers, Shan and Adeel, age 7 and ... Read more >
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Mon, 17 Sep 2007 | By damonlk | Views [279]
Regrettably, for the animal involved that is, the principle ingredient of the brush used by miniature painters are hairs taken from the tail of a squirrel. Preferably a young one, but given the speed and agility of all such animals any caught squirrel ... Read more >
Tags: markets
Mon, 10 Sep 2007 | By damonlk | Views [275] | Comments [3]
Classes have not begun, but the curriculum has been planned, as much as possible, and the 120 odd students met Saturday morning at orientation. Much of the time was given over to insisting that the students not smoke in class, and that medical ... Read more >
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Mon, 3 Sep 2007 | By damonlk | Views [319] | Comments [2]
And so ends the first week in Lahore. It’s coming to the end of summer, so the heat is slowly abating, or at least I am acclimatising after that sudden jump from Melbourne winter. Of course what remains – 30 degrees at 9am – is still enough ... Read more >
Tags: people
Thu, 12 Jul 2007 | By safetyhub | Views [773]
At 04:00 local time on 10 July 2007, Pakistani special forces launched ‘Operation Silence’, a military incursion into the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, located in the heart of Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. The operation brought an end to an eight-day ... Read more >
Tags: travel safety, red24, red mosque, pakistan
Sun, 1 Jul 2007 | By ye-travels | Views [476]
There is only one legal international border crossing between Pakistan and India and it sits in the Punjab province of each country (at partition Punjab was split in two). Its an easy trip from Delhi on a speedy day train or a slow night train at less ... Read more >
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Sun, 1 Jul 2007 | By ye-travels | Views [369]
Lahore is a huge, busy, modern city and when we were there it was also really hot. We decided we would stay only two nights, so we packed our days in an attempt to experience the most of the city. Our first stop was the Lahore Museum, which I only ... Read more >
Tags: culture
Fri, 18 May 2007 | By safetyhub | Views [1018]
On 14 May 2007, a general strike closed banks, shops, markets and schools throughout Karachi, paralysing the Pakistani port city. Similar scenes could be witnessed in towns and cities throughout southern Sindh province, of which Karachi is the capital, ... Read more >
Tags: travel safety, red24, karachi, pakistan, unrest
Sat, 12 May 2007 | By mutt | Views [540] | Comments [6]
60km from the Afgahn border, at Peswar city. Historical city, Peswar was ground for some famous explorers, conquerors, and tyrans - Alexander the Great, Marco Polo, Genghis Khan, Timur, Bakur, and ME, Rodrigo The Stubborn. Peswar is famous for being ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Wed, 2 May 2007 | By mutt | Views [788] | Comments [5]
My last days in India were in Amritsar, 30km away from the Pakistane border. Amritsar is a a city known for it´s large Sikh population and it´s temple - Golden Temple. Incredible! The temple is a number of buildings surrounding this man-made pool where ... Read more >
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Tue, 27 Feb 2007 | By kokoricooo | Views [281] | Comments [1]
Sufism is the mystic way of Islam. I got introduced to it's magical music in Rajasthan, and I just fell in love with it. I am actually also tired of India, and i wanted to find my next destination . I was thinking about Burma, China, Pakistan and ... Read more >
Tags: The Planning Phase
Wed, 26 Jul 2006 | By craigandsimon | Views [2124] | Comments [9]
The Karakoram Highway blasts its way through some of the world's largest mountains and snakes its way north from Islamabad to the Chinese border. It is a remarkable feat of Pakistani army engineering - arching along impossibly steep slopes, skirting ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
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