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Tue, 19 Aug 2008 | By shaz | Photo Gallery

Mountains
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Only a few days left!!..

Mon, 4 Aug 2008 | By anuon2r | Views [826]

..Hey all! So much happened, and I can't believe I will be leaving in only two days. It feels so normal to be here! When I look out on the street I can't believe I was in orderly, clean Germany only a few days ago. The weather I quite nice, it rains ... Read more >

Tags: karachi, two days left, wedding

Arrived in Karachi

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 | By anuon2r | Views [1665] | Comments [1]

I arrived in Karachi on Tueday morning. After a quite enjoyable flight over next to a Pakistani guy who thought I was 23, just because I said I just finished school :) nice! I look so young when I am traveling and tired, aparently... My aunt picked ... Read more >

Tags: first days in karachi

Gallery: My Country

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 | By archad_awan | Photo Gallery


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Aminabad

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 | By damonlk | Views [1573] | Comments [3]

Two hours north west of Lahore, and half way to Gujranwala, is the town of Aminabad. Once prosperous, for the last 150 years it has been slipping into quiet obscurity. The decline began in the 19 th century with the realignment of the GT ... Read more >

Tags: culture

Jehangir's Tomb

Sun, 3 Feb 2008 | By damonlk | Views [1866]

Just outside Lahore on the road that once connected Delhi to Kabul, and across the floodplain of the now dry Ravi, are the twin tombs of Nur Jahan and her husband, the Mughal Emperor Jehangir. The road, though now sheared of its ... Read more >

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Article

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 | By damonlk | Views [3495]

Pakistan is well known internationally for its cricket, turbulent politics, and key role in the complex geostrategy of region. It also has a vigorous arts sector, and contributes strongly to the art of South Asia, of which the recent rise ... Read more >

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Next door

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 | By damonlk | Views [1098]

On Wednesday we returned to Pakistan after three weeks travelling through its neighbour, sometime enemy, and rising regional superpower, India. Crossing the border felt like coming home, and that small absurd step across an invisible line cleared ... Read more >

Tags: culture

Bhutto

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 | By damonlk | Views [1097]

Bhutto died on Thursday afternoon. Once confirmed word spread fast from mouth to mouth to mobile phone. What began as a certain posture between two men talking in a doorway spread quickly up and down the street. With regrettable, ... Read more >

Tags: on the road

kites

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 | By miriamvkenter | Views [784]

Young boys and men throw their simple paper and bamboo kites high above their heads to catch a gust of wind. The winning gust takes their kite on a one kilometer journey into the sky.  It is a challenge getting it to catch onto that one breath of ... Read more >

Tags: People

interzone

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 | By damonlk | Views [1148]

Just before Pakistan proper ends, and the interzone of autonomous tribal regions begin, some 40km from the Afghan border, are a series of markets.    As with markets everywhere they sell everything, and the first hundred metres are dominated by ... Read more >

Tags: Markets

Rawalpindi

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 | By miriamvkenter | Views [739]

The children don't stop playing, they take advantage of the empty streets. Games of cricket are set up in every other empty alley and street.  The sounds of laughter, cheers, makeshift cricket bats whacking makeshift balls echo off the closed facades.... Read more >

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Fakir Khana

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 | By damonlk | Views [7504] | Comments [2]

Inside Bhatti Gate in the walled city, and just before the remains of the red light district, is the Fakir Khana Museum. Housed in a traditional three story house, and built on the collection of gifts and tributes paid to an advisor of Maharajah ... Read more >

Tags: Culture

first days in lahore

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 | By miriamvkenter | Views [788]

A wrong way walk down the ganda-nella highway (the open-sewer highway) was frustrating and confusing mostly for me - but also for the hundreds of rickshaw, car and truck drivers, and especially the police roaming the side of the busy, stinky road.  ... Read more >

Tags: Food & eating

Landa Bazaar

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 | By damonlk | Views [2002] | Comments [1]

Just past the Mayo Hospital is Landa bazaar. Or more precisely a Landa bazaar, as there is another further east running between Lahore Railway Station and the Delhi Gate of the old town. Both specialise in second hand clothes, much of it imported, ... Read more >

Tags: Shopping

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