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Samadhi of Guru Nanak, inside the Gurudwara Darbar Sahib, Katarpur Village, Narowal District, Punjab, Pakistan. Hindus & Muslims disputed on performing the last rites of Baba Guru Nanak. Next morning, flowers were found under the cover where his body was placed. Hindus cremated the flowers & built a Samadhi whereas Muslims performed Namaz-e-Jinaza, burried the followers and built a grave.
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Sialkot, or Sagala (as per historians) has perhaps remained capital of White Huns. Some Buddhist stupas have been found there as well.
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My ancestral town, havent seen seen this samadhi though.
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This architecture matches closely with the environment around it (desert). Some other places have similar designs like Chaukundi graveyard.
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This architecture matches closely with the environment around it (desert). Some other places have similar designs like Chaukundi graveyard.
I think the stone used in these buildings is from local mountains. Makli, Chokundi are hilly areas, where stones are easily available.
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The beautiful Princess Diana, pictured here on the grounds of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital in 1997.
(Photo Credit: Daily Mail)
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Tujhse bichaR kar zinda hain, jaan boht sharminda hain 
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Who is the lady?
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sharai muashqe 
This is a triangular story of platonic, sensual and long distance love between a woman and two men as different as day and night. One man being a boozer, a womaniser, the other a paragon of piety (so he led us to believe). And in the middle was a woman — attractive and steamy. At first, there was a visible tilt in the direction of the Army House in Rawalpindi, which the woman frequented. How the occupant reciprocated is a classified state secret buried with his bones at Faisal Mosque.
Curse Zia as much as you want, but unlike Musharraf, he at least left Pakistan with a legacy. The legacy was Charlie Wilson. “He won the war,” Zia said of the Texas congressman who single-handedly convinced US Congress to funnel truckloads of money to finance the CIA-sponsored war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. And how did Zia get around Wilson? The route to Wilsons heart, Zia knew, was through a woman. **That woman was Joanne Herring. Our dictator general appointed the attractive socialite Pakistans honorary consul in Texas. He flirted with her; he honoured and excited her. She fell hook, line and sinker for the president. While Wilson fell hook, line and sinker for Herring. He became a friend of Zias because Joanne so told him to.**
Wilson was our mojo man, with General Zia pampering him like a spoilt brat, traipsing through Pakistan with his money bags and spark plugs to buttress the forerunners of the fanatic Taliban legion, the pseudo pious Zia tolerated the floozies and the flummery of the cowboy Texan. The credit to net Joanne Herring, then a 40-something, known “as a collector of powerful men, a social lioness and hostess” goes to Sahibzada Yaqub Ali Khan, our charming, verse-reciting (in any lingo you name it) ultimate romantic. He was our man in Washington and getting Herring named as Pakistan`s Honorary Consul for Houston was a breeze for him.
If only Musharraf was half the lady killer his predecessor of the 80s was, imagine where we would have been today. Instead of running after every US congressman coming to Islamabad almost every week begging for money to fight the Taliban (remember in Wilsons time the bad guys were the Soviets), Pakistan would have had someone influential like Joanne Herring to fight our cause. Now, the burden to lobby for funds has fallen on the frail shoulders of poor Husain Haqqani in Washington. We expect him to deliver; but hes no Joanne Herring! Though we can`t fault him for not trying – he did after all get senators Kerry and Lugar to lobby for an aid bill named after them!
I wrote about Congressman Charlie Wilson on these pages six years ago when the book Charlie Wilsons War came out. I write today because hes no more. Heres an introduction of himself which Wilson sportingly read out to an amused audience at the Texas Book Festival in Houston when the book first came out “TO PREFIX the Honourable` to a man like former Representative, Charlie Wilson, a member of the US Congress from 1973-1996 is highly “inappropriate” he was a “drunken, ignorant, lying, zipper-flapping, corrupt, power hungry freak!”
With a naughty crinkle and an indulgent hauteur — good time Charlie, as the six-foot-four congressman was called, also known as the biggest playboy in Congress he read aloud his vice-list penned by some “Australian pervert”, as Charlie called him. The Aussie intellectual had poured scorn over the book. The book rose to become a bestseller and inspired Hollywood`s most-famous Tom Hanks to produce the movie and act the part of Charlie Wilson. Julia Roberts played Joanne Herring.
Written by George Crile — a man not easily impressed and a veteran producer of Sixty Minutes, America`s best-loved Sunday segment — he is in total awe of his subject. “Famous for his capacity to drink more whiskey, chase more women, get into more scandals than any other legislator of his time, Charlie is literally a genius at it,” enthuses Crile to his audience while marveling at “sponsoring the only successful jihad in modern history.”
“How one man could make a huge difference” in using his influence with the CIA as the member of the all-powerful Appropriations Committee and engineering billions worth of arms transfer to Afghanistan to “drive the Russians out,” makes the curmudgeon Crile salute Charlie. Even Crile`s critics concede that his account is “important, if appalling, precisely because it details how a ruthless ignoramus congressman and a high-ranking CIA thug managed to hijack the American foreign policy.”
Wilson, while “a seemingly corrupt, cocaine-snorting, scandal-prone womaniser who the CIA was convinced could only get the Agency into terrible trouble if it permitted him to become involved in any way in its operations”, as Crile earlier had commented in his show, but Crile today looks at Wilson as his hero! And so was he Pakistans hero! Rest in peace good time Charlie`!
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martial law ki paidawar :yawn:
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For 14 years, the reputed Pakistani tailor Ghani Chaudry worked on the legendary Savile Row — the famous street in London’s Mayfair district whose bespoke tailoring services can be traced back some 200 years.
Having provided his tailoring expertise to television series such as the BBC’s Bird of Prey and ITV’s The Professionals, dressing the likes of Gregory Peck (for The Omen), Roger Moore (for the 1983 James Bond flick Octopussy), Val Kilmer (for Top Secret!), the late Dickie Henderson, Chaim Topol, Sir Ralph Richardson (for Invitation to the Wedding), Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, President of Pakistan Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari, and a host of other prominent actors, politicians, bureaucrats, and businessmen, Chaudry is an institution in himself, a living legend.
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Post no 490 ki summary bta dain 
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bold part padh len. its lubb e lubaab
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to ye baat hy
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Yaar ishq wishq chorro. Pathan afghan bhee peechay bhaagtay thay uskay or tumhay afghan ka to pata kitna aurto’n ko pasand kartay hain?
She was instrumental in con circles and help drum up support through her relations for the support for the soviet-afghan war.
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Awesome Awesome pictures. Want to visit all those places, inshaAllah.
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Today is the 65th death anniversary of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. May Allah bless our founding father with a high rank in Jannah!
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Aameen.
