Adil Najam
If you have seen this before, can we please request that you hold your answers for now. If you have never seen this picture before, can you guess what major Pakistani city this is?
See correct answer here. See more details on the photograph and on answer here.
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@Aamir Ali
You still say its Abbottabad… :).. Creator of the quiz has mentioned in a post below that it is Queeta…
I say it is Abbottabad?
I would have also never thought of Quetta. Excellent Quiz guys. Also goes to show how little we know about various parts of our country. I have never been to Quetta myself and now I am dying to go and see this city. Excellent quiz.
Wow. I’ve been to Quetta many times but I wasn’t able to guess that. Great quiz. thanks for posting it.
I would have never guessed Quetta. It appears that the lights abruptly end at some natural barrier in two or three parts of the photo and in Quetta one presumes those boundaries are hills, but electricity doesn’t usually end at an incline whereas it must where water begins — hence my guess of Gwadar. The picture is too small to be Karachi.
Now that a number of people have guessed it right (and, yes, I am impressed) let me share with you a few things about this photograph:
1. Yes, it is QUETTA by night.
2. We had actually used the exact same picture as an ATP Quiz about two years ago, here. We assumed (rightly) that a lot of new readers have come since then and they might not have seen that original post (hence the request in the first line of this post).
3. This is one of my favorite Quiz posts from myself (the other being the series of quizzes on Edhi sahib) precisely because it is very easy to assume that this is Islamabad or Karachi. This time - just like the first time - a LOT of people thought it was one of those cities. If you know the layout of either of those two cities well enough and then look carefully at this picture you can see why it is not one of them.
4. Two years ago I had done a detailed answer post with details about this picture, this quiz and also more about Quetta in general. I would urge readers to maybe revisit that answer post to read more about this picture and related information (here).
Thanks, all, for playing along…. especially those who actually know this picture and did heed to the first sentence in the post and kept mum about it all day!