Adil Najam
This photograph, was taken yesterday (Nov. 2) by Khalid Tanveer of the Associated Press. Take from a different angle, it continues to boggle the mind. It is a train coming back from Multan after a religious congregation. Was this just a photo-op or were they actually traveling like this.
Did anyone call the Gunniess Book of World Records to count the number of people stuck to the train?
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This picture symbolizes some of the problems Pakistan is facing:
1. Uncontrolled growth of population
2. Inadequate infrastructure and services, and last, and very important
3. Increasing number of young people, mostly semi-literate, converging at such “religious” gatherings that do nothing but brainwash them into bigotry and intolerance.
Amazing picture. Who they are and where they are coming from does not matter, but what they are doing on the train is awesome… in a crazy sort of way
Here is another picture of this train in today’s Dawn.
http://tinyurl.com/5rvuas
@ Isloo
They are very moderate muslims belong to Brelvi School of thought, participated very actively in Pakistan Movement and are miles away from any fanatic petro islamist group. Infact 95% of Pakistanis muslims are either belong to Deoband or Brelvi or Shia school of thought and live with peace and harmony. Only 2% receives petro-dollars and create all mess whether in FATA , Swat etc
can any one guess train speed? :)