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Emperor Ashoka in our Backyard - Part II

Posted on February 29, 2008
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Mast Qalandar
When I wrote the post on Ashoka’s Rock Edicts I had made a suggestion at the end of the post to the department concerned, which was to put up a proper and readable translation of the edicts at the site — both in English and Urdu.
To my pleasant surprise, I discovered the other day, [...]

Titanic Sightings in Pakistan

Posted on February 28, 2008
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Owais Mughal
Last year ATP had brought you a post on Chinese Characters on Pakistani Transport.
Today we are bringing you a brand new piece on Titanic sightings around the country. There are 5 such documented sightings. So don’t forget to go to the next page to see more.
(1) At The Banks of River Kabul:
The photo [...]

Pakistan Elections 2008: Awam Express Has Arrived

Posted on February 28, 2008
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Deeda-i-Beena
They were always there but nobody gave them any recognition. They waited patiently and long for their day and at long last when it arrived, they acted. Quietly they arrived in their millions, got their thumbs inked and had a line marked at the edge of their thumb-nails. They went into the privacy of the [...]

I Blog Because….

Posted on February 27, 2008
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Guest Post By Ghazala Khan
likhtay rahay junooN ki hikayat…When I was a little girl growing up in a quite suburb of Islamabad, I vividly remember playing with dolls and asking for toffees and biscuits from my father. I also used to imagine as to what would I become, when I grow up.
At that time, many [...]

KSE-100 Index Sets New Record: What is the Market Telling Us?

Posted on February 27, 2008
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Adil Najam
On Tuesday the Karachi Stock Exchange’s (KSE’s) KSE-100 Index - Pakistan’s equivalent to the Dow Jones Index - broke the psychological barrier of 15,000 for the first time. At the time of writing this (on what is Wednesday morning in Pakistan) the Index remains well above that mark.

Masjid Mahabat Khan, Peshawar

Posted on February 26, 2008
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Owais Mughal
This is the second post in our series on architecture of Pakistan. Earlier we covered Merewether Tower, Karachi.
The old city of Peshawar is called the ‘andar shehr’ (the inner city). The mosque of Mahabat Khan is located in andar shehr. The mosque was built in the seventeenth century and it is named after [...]

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