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Imran Khan and Mian Nawaz Sharif
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Who is on left?
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Even at the time when Karachi boasted the tallest building in South Asia, drivers refused to drive their vehicles in lanes.
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road hi aise hain saheb, wheel alignment out ho jati hai 
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I think most tragic thing for young nation was that Pakistan lost her founding father unlike her contemporary like Ben-Gurion and Nehru 
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sarfaraz nawaz
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Colorized photo of Jinnah…
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Allama Muhammad Iqbal (1930) in Allahabad, India
Iqbal arriving at the historic session of the
All India Muslim League in Allahabad, where he delivered his
famous presidential address outlining the**
plan for an independent homeland for Indian Muslims**.
Sitting next to him in
the car is the late Haji Abdullah Haroon.
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Why Haji Abdullah Haroon alone is mentioned as Late, iss pic ke saare hi ab tak late ho gaye honge 
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Why Haji Abdullah Haroon alone is mentioned as Late, iss pic ke saare hi ab tak late ho gaye honge :D
lol...kuchh 'LATE' hone meN late ho gaye hoNge us waqt...shaayad is liye! :D
OR
he may have been the ONLY Haajii in the lot. :)
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I think most tragic thing for young nation was that Pakistan lost her founding father unlike her contemporary like Ben-Gurion and Nehru :)
Nehru is Father of the nation?
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Nehru is Father of the nation?
Technically Gandhi, I wrote Nehru since after independence he takes precedence over Mahatma :)
and Mahatma belongs to world not alone to India :)
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True, Mahatma Gandhi belongs to the world. He is not just an Indian icon, but a global icon whose appeal transcends borders. Of course, Mahatma Gandhi is more accomplished and in a league of his own but as far as global appeal is concerned, in a way he is kind of like Malala-- the brave girl who stood up for the basic but inalienable and universal right of education, something that people everywhere can relate to. And indeed children in other counties are learning about Malala along with cherished heroes from their own nation like Rosa Parks!
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Mahatma is something way different, you know, at the age of Malala he had much impressionable mind, was so shy at her age. Malala is far more courageous than he was. Rosa Parks belongs to US, Malala belongs to every other asian girl who is trying to get birth even (you might be knowing Indian’s preference for boys 
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I'm afraid many people from Pakistan also prefer boys. My firstborn was a girl, while I was happy that she was healthy, most of my family members and even our Pakistani and Indian family friends said how sorry they were, that she wasn't a boy and that they hoped that next time I'd have a son. Which I did. But I love them both and wouldn't want my daughter to be a son too. It's nice to have one of each. :)
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I'm afraid many people from Pakistan also prefer boys. My firstborn was a girl, while I was happy that she was healthy, most of my family members and even our Pakistani and Indian family friends said how sorry they were, that she wasn't a boy and that they hoped that next time I'd have a son. Which I did. But I love them both and wouldn't want my daughter to be a son too. It's nice to have one of each. :)
I don't know if Islam has natural preference for boys as Hinduism has theological preference for boys if it is case with Muslims this is aberration as I have never seen Muslims cringing on female birth.
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No, Islam doesn't prefer boys over girls, they are equals. It's just my family and many Pakistani family friends who actually do cringe when they have a daughter. In fact, for years, here amongst many family friends and our family members, people did not even give mathay to anyone, if they had a baby girl. And they are surprised if you actually do, I was happy enough to give mathay waghaira and people were wondering why. I kept explaining that I'm happy to have a healthy baby, boy or girl. My inlaws actually used my baby girl against me. My mother was disappointed with me. So yes, amongst us Muslims there certainly are such people too. They are everywhere.
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Apparently the toxic preference for sons is prevalent in China as well. Due to easy access to ultrasound and widespread sex-selective abortions in China, there will be almost 30 million more Chinese young men of marriageable age than Chinese women of the same age group by 2020. That can potentially be quite problematic though the Chinese government's draconian one-child policy probably exacerbated the problem too.
At least it's not that bad in India-Pakistan. And I think with time and with more education and more opportunities for women to be active in the workforce as the economy grows, prejudices against females will hopefully decline.
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Reverse of the photograph, where the British Army officer traveling in the same train along with M A Jinnah had noted ‘Mr & Mrs M A Jinnah & Friends, The All India Muslim League Leader’ Agra 11-9-42.
Frontier Mail at Ratlam Junction on September 11, 1942. The photographs were taken by a British Army officer traveling by the Frontier Mail. The All India Muslim League leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah also was traveling by the same train in the Air-Conditioned coach. Notings on the reverse just says ‘Ratlam Junction 11.9.42’.
Ice brought in from the lodcal ice factory to cool the Air Conditioned coaches in those days…indeed, ingenuity at best!
The notings on the reverse of this photograph ’ This is the last piece!', Bayana Junction, 11.9.42.
a layer of ice blocks were laid under the floor of the carriage and this is how they used to cool the air-conditioned coaches of Indian Railways back then.
these blocks melted within a few hours and they would be replaced by a new layer of ice blocks at the trains next stop. these trains usually made stops after each 2-3 hour intervals.
this what the train tickets looked like back then. 
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