Test Cricket Returns to Pakistan: vs Sri Lanka

Posted on February 21, 2009
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Owais Mughal As I am writing these lines, International Test Cricket has returned to Pakistan after a gap of 16 months. Today, Pakistan is playing against Sri Lanka at National Stadium, Karachi and as of now Sri Lanka has won the toss and is batting first. Latest score is Sri Lanka 120/2. I’ll continue to […]

Rawalpindi to Sialkot by Bus, Truck and Tonga

Posted on February 19, 2009
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Owais Mughal After giving back-breaking HSc exams in 1988, a friend of mine and I decided to take a tour of Northern Pakistan. A relaxing week of mountain trekking in the ‘galliat’ was our high point. We were on our way back to Karachi when ‘lage haathoN’ (while at it) we decided to add Sialkot […]

Hyderabad: How Clean is Our Drinking Water?

Posted on February 18, 2009
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Owais Mughal I had never been overly optimistic about cleanliness of our drinking water sources, but following two photos hit too close to reality. Pakistan’s 6th largest and Sindh’s 2nd largest city, Hyderabad draws its drinking water from Phuleli Canal (official spellings – Fuleli). The photos in this post show protest by an NGO in […]

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