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The citizens of Lahore saw a Railway Locomotive for the first time in their city in March 1862. Lahore at that time was connected via Railways to Amritsar and rest of the India but not to the port city of Karachi. The Lahore-Amritsar line though complete, was not inaugurated yet. It was to be […]

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ATP’s regular contributor Mast Qalandar introduced us to this poetry clip. The poem is recited by the poet Dr. Nausha Asrar himself. The sub-title on the video suggests this poem was recited in Aligarh alumni’s aalmi mushaira 2007. Dr Nausha has a unique style of reciting poetry. The way he controls lowering and raising […]

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When Younis Khan hit a 4 off Piyush Chawla to take his score to 37 in today’s match against India, he completed his 5000 runs in ODIs. He went on to score 123 not out in today’s innings. He thus became Pakistan’s 9th and World’s 45th batsman to reach this milestone. Following is the […]

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Following photo is courtesy of Farhan Khan of APP. You can make your own story of what is going on but here is my ‘tasweeri kahani’ (photo story). Letters in bold are facts. Rest is fiction. On the hot sunny afternoon of June 27, 2008, some nieghborhood boys gathered under a tree on Airport […]

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In April 2008, we had a post on Eight Bazaars of Faisalabad, and we presented it as one of the best examples of town planning in Pakistan. We would like to develop this topic into a whole new series about the best planned localities of Pakistan. Among many examples of fine town planning in […]

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Many years ago, before I became a proud owner of Yamaha 100, I used to have a Yamaha 50. It was red in color and many a times the person riding on it also used to get shades of red. These red shades sometimes came in anger and sometimes as blushes. This motorcycle made […]