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While All Things Pakistan has remained alive and online, it has been dormant since June 11, 2011 - when, on the blog's 5th anniversary, we decided that it was time to move on. We have been heartened by your messages and the fact that a steady traffic has continued to enjoy the archived content on ATP. While the blog itself will remain dormant, we are now beginning to add occasional (but infrequent) new material by the original authors of the blog, mostly to archive what they may now publish elsewhere. We will also be updating older posts to make sure that new readers who stumble onto this site still find it useful.
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Thanks for your write-up on this site. From my personal experience, often times softening way up a photograph might provide the photographer with a little bit of an imaginative flare. Sometimes however, this soft cloud isn’t precisely what you had in mind and can frequently spoil a normally good photo, especially if you thinking about enlarging it.
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S.A.J. Shirazi writes a short blog on N5’s GT road portion here
As far as I understand that the name SHAHDARA has two parts
first is SHAH…. and the next is….. DARA.
SHAH means the KING …… and DARA reflects the meaning of DOOR (Darawaza).if we combine these two words.. then we can say it is the door or darawaza from where any one enter into the Mahal or Fort..Gateway to enter in the King place.
To Pervaiz Munir Alvi.
I have found evidence of your position on the name of Shahdara. The name of that place near Lahore is mentioned in the Akbarnama of Abul Fazl. My mis-information was obtained from a few articles by Majid Sheikh in Dawn and other places.
I would edit my comments here if I could.