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Picture(s) of the Day: Maashallah

Posted on June 30, 2006
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Now you know why the world price of gold has been going up!
This couple celebrated their first wedding anniversary last week. So, I guess it is time to congratulate them by putting this picture up.
I have been looking for this since I started ATP and finally found it on Asma’s highly recommended blog Reflection of [...]

Update on Hindu Temple in Lahore: Case Closed?

Posted on June 30, 2006
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Adil Najam
Update: here.
ATP has been following the developing story about the reported destruction of a Hindu temple in Rangmahal, Lahore. We first wrote about the initial reports on June 14 and then gave a detailed account of how how events were unfolding, on June 17. At that point, the ‘facts’ of the story (as opposed [...]

Guest Post: Travel to Pakistan

Posted on June 30, 2006
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By S A J Shirazi
Traveling whirls you around, turns you upside down and stands everything you took for granted on its head.
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel [...]

Picture of the Day: Levitating Lyari-boy

Posted on June 29, 2006
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Adil Najam
I have been so much wanting to put this one up as the picture of the day. Just because it is such a striking composition photographically.
The title I have used ‘Levitating Lyari-boy‘ is the title originally used by the photographer, Ali Khurshid, whose other work of Karachi Beaches (as displayed on flickr.com and elsewhere) [...]

How the world sees the India-Pakistan conflict

Posted on June 29, 2006
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The Onion is a satirical parody ‘newspaper’ which is published in print and on the Internet that reports both real and imagined stories and makes fun of the earnestness of the mainstream news-media, the gullibility of its readers, and the general state of the world we live in. However, as with all satire, it tends [...]

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