Adil Najam
Do you know what place this is? Can you recognize any or all of the buildings you see? And how is it important to Pakistan?
I suspect this ATP Quiz is either a little too easy. Or, maybe, not easy at all. I guess we shall find out soon enough.
Mind you, the swim was not for free.
We paid Rs. 1 per head, per visit.
Yes, that was the time when they still made ‘shadi kay harr’ with Rs. 1 stapled to them. (BTW, who was the genius who came up with that idea?)
For another perspective of purchasing power of Rs. 1? Well, I could buy a hotdog (actually, a hamburger as it was called in Cathedral) for the same amount of money. But that is another story.
Great conversation here.
ATP should collect this in a post on GC. Or maybe the commenters can write a post on their memories so that all fo us can ad to them even more.
All the way in the back, tucked away from sight, used to a swimming pool. In late 60s, it was a run down structure. Murky water.
But it was a busy place.
Students (and their ‘wink wink’) brothers could come and swim. Well, I was the younger brother of my older brother (before he joined GC) who happened to be “brother” of a college student.
Needless to say, it was fun.
By the time I got to GC, the place was shuttered. I assume, where the post grad area is now as @Straw pointed out.
Watan Aziz has tagged pretty much everything in the photo..
I would still like to add a few though..The yellow garage like structure to the left and behind the main tower building(10 O’clock) was recently renovated and the story is that its the oldest building on the campus and nobody knows what it was used for before being abandoned, labeled “off limits” to people and then renovated just recently.They say it had, in past, been used as a place to hang people(one heck of a scary rumor i guess).
The two buildings to the left and the rear are Sports Complex and Post-Grad Block,the new love garden they say..;).
Green courts are the lawn tennis courts and blue one is for basketball.To the right is the Quaid-e-Azam Hostel built in 1992 and inaugurated by Nawaz Sharif, the then prime minister.The hostel is famous/notorious for the strict disciplinary codes and often termed as military hostel(by boarders of course).We felt so empathized when we heard some journalist did a post on how strict
Extreme right corner of the photo shows the “New Block” built in 2005-6.It also features an art gallery.
Across the road is a newly built Bio-Tech block( designed by Nayyar Ali Dada if i remember correctly).
p.s. @Watan Aziz, Johny Chips and Samosas is the new roo(gunnay ka russ) spot. Irresistibly spicy I tell you! .also that chips wala johny chacha claims to be a ravian.Sad that no one believes him though..:D
not Pakistan for sure.. :P