The Lost Art of Fountain Pens

Posted on December 15, 2008
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Owais Mughal Being away from Pakistan for many years, I have missed many small things which I always used to take for granted. One such small thing is the joy of writing with a fountain pen. A Fountain pen was first patented in US in the year 1884 and writing with it eeamined in vogue […]

Inspiration Pakistan: Sense of Pride

Posted on December 14, 2008
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Asma Mirza I found reference to following news item at Metroblogging Islamabad which in turn got the photo from Duffer’s blog. Taxi driver Bilal Mehmood told that a person bought a goat and booked his taxi for going to Islamabad. He was following on his motorbike. At the decided place, the taxi driver couldn’t find […]

The Seven Stages of Pakistan

Posted on December 10, 2008
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Khurram Ali Shafique Through my researches about the history of Pakistan, I have come upon a rather curious pattern. It is the recurrence of “peak moments” precisely every twentieth year (with one interesting change). The gathering of Muslim community representatives from all over India at Aligarh in 1886 was the first of its kind in […]

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