I saw this photo at treklens.com and thought of sharing it here. Besides ubiquitous natural beauty of Skardu valley, Shangrila resort remains one of the most photographed manmade landmark here.
Photo Credits: Zahoor Ahmed at Treklens.com
Adil Najam, Asma Mirza, Bilal Zuberi, Darwaish and Owais Mughal
From all of us at All Things Pakistan (ATP; Pakistaniat.Com) we wish our regular readers, our contributors, and all passers-by a wonderful and very happy Eid Mubarak (Eid Greetings). We wish you happiness, prosperity and all things good; now and forever.
Let us share today some thoughts that we wrote in our Eid post this time last year. They seem as pertinent today as they did then.
Eid is about community. And so is Pakistaniat.Com…
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Bilal Zuberi’s wonderful post on Ramzan in Pakistan has inspired me to finally write about Rooh Afza – something I have been meaning to do for a while. Bilal’s post was made all the more poignant for me because I spent the first week of Ramzan in Pakistan. As Bilal mentioned, one of the many things that is a near necessary feature of the Pakistani Iftar spread is Rooh Afza.
By the way, 2007 was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rooh Afza! The mashroob e Mashriq (“syrup of the East”) was first introduced by its inventor and founder of Hamdard Laboratories, Hakeem Abdul Majeed, in 1907.
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