Owais Mughal This post is about alternative, cheaper and earthquake resistant housing for Pakistan. At ATP we’ve covered alternative building styles before when S.A.J. Shirazi wrote about using mud to build homes. A couple of my friends recently pointed out to me an earthquake resistant straw bale housing style that was practised in Pakistan (and […]
Owais Mughal This photo is from Lahore – taken on March 17, 2010. You can probably search and find this photo on the web but ‘baat to jab hai’ that you try to guess (or tell) what is this guy doing? If ‘what’ is very easy for you to guess then take the next shot […]
Owais Mughal A friend of mine had once jokingly told me that Poetry should be done in no other language than Urdu and news should be reported in no other language than English. That comment was for lighter moments only but one can see such a stark contrast between Pakistan’s standard of Urdu and English […]
