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Shandur Festival: Polo at the Roof of the World

Posted on July 7, 2008
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Manzoor Ali Shah
The 2008 edition of Pakistan’s famous Shandur Polo festival starts today. It will continue for three days. This polo tournament, organized by Gilgit and Chitral polo clubs, will be played at Shandur Pass which is considered as the the highest Polo Ground in the World.

The game of polo has been played for a [...]

ATP Quiz - Guess what is it and where in Pakistan?

Posted on June 18, 2008
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Darwaish
I think many ATP readers would find this one very interesting. This is a famous place located somewhere in Pakistan.
Can you guess what is it and exactly where in Pakistan? If you know about this thing, please share as many details as you can. Happy guessing.
Note: We will let you know about the photographer and [...]

Pakistan’s Indigenous Art of Truck Painting

Posted on June 18, 2008
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Owais Mughal
Just like the Billboard painting performed in Pakistan, there is another indigenous form of art performed in Pakistan and it is the Truck Painting. With its all colorful floral patterns, depiction of human heroes with creative aspect ratios, calligraphy of poetic verses and driver’s words of wisdom, this form of art is truly a [...]

Linguistic Diversity in NWFP

Posted on May 7, 2008
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Manzoor Ali Shah
The NWFP has always been in limelight, but for wrong reasons. From the British raj’s Afghan wars in eighteenth century to Russian invasion in 1979 and American ouster of Taliban from Kabul in 2002, NWFP had been pivotal to the imperialistic designs, as it provides road access to Afghanistan. Later, the emergence of [...]

Discrepancy: So What Is It?

Posted on May 1, 2008
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Pervaiz Munir Alvi
Previously at ATP we have talked about ‘Redundancy’ and about ‘Naming Names’ in Pakistan. At those posts lively comments by many of our readers made the original post even more interesting. Once again we are hopeful that our loyal readers will come forward and add to this post with their own interesting questions. [...]

Punjabi Film Music: Nothing Paindu About It

Posted on April 17, 2008
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Fawad
Having grown up in Lahore in the 70’s and 80’s, the strains of lilting Punjabi melodies were always a warm and familiar presence.
Even though in middle class upwardly mobile urban families Punjabi had sadly come to be associated with rural backwardness, Punjabi music with its deep cultural roots continued to exert an influence. Even in [...]

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