This is Gulzar-e-Hijri Branch of ???

Posted on September 28, 2007
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Owais Mughal I first saw this photo by Raja Islam at Metroblogging Karachi and since then I am spellbound. The photo is self-explanatory but I do want to translate it for our English readership. For our Urdu readers I want to mention that punch line is written just above the McDonald’s sign. Translation: Try our […]

Lotay

Posted on September 24, 2007
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Owais Mughal The photo is of a suzuki pick-up transporting freshly manufactured ‘lotay’ in Karachi. When I first saw this photo at Flickr.com, the photographer Fayyaz Ahmed had captioned it ‘Election Preparation 2007’. I thought that was too funny. Photo Credits: Fayyaz Ahmed

A Crow on a Pakistani Street

Posted on September 18, 2007
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Owais Mughal I’ve discussed the neighbourhood I grew up at quite a few times. For example here and here. Today I’ve brought another story from it. In our neighborhood there used to live a crow. Although the neighborhood was filled with thousands of resident crows, this one crow was special. He was special because in […]

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