Peshwari style Peshawar and Pak Rock

pakiplaya · February 10, 2006, 7:56am

Peshawar appears more Central Asia than Pakistan. It’s an old city, one of the oldest in the sub-continent, and was the site of several bloodbaths in history. Yet, it survived them all and is currently a city where the old blends beautifully with the new. You have trendy malls, you also have Chapli kebabs and gigantic naans being cooked outdoors.
The men are big, bigger, biggest and have a medevial, serious look that can have an intimidating effect. Many look more Russian then sub-continental - fair and well-built, crunching your palms during a handshake.
Even light-hearted humour is often accompanied with a stone-faced countanance. When you’re way over six feet tall, wearing a flowing shalwar-kameez, and walking as if you are on a warpath somebody is bound to think that you may have an evil disposition.
Karkhana Market is known for several things, least of all for a place where one can buy, hold your breath, guns. It’s a truly astonishing sight with rows of pistols, rifles, air guns, machine guns, Kaleshnikovs and zillion varieties of firearms lining the walls.
Look into the glassed shelves and you get bullets, cartridges, magazines, cases, spares and the rest. Turn around and you see imperial swords – lengthy, curved, sharp and lethal – daggers, stilettos, butterfly knives et all. In one of the shops, a couple of men were diligently making guns – filing, sawing, shaping and oiling.
Walk a few metres and there is more lawlessness – shops openly selling hashish at absurdly low prices, some trading in smuggled goods (Rolex watches were available for Rs 150!), others dealing in pirated CDs, others selling fake soaps and shampoos.
What was the best sight of them all? As we were leaving the market, still reeling from the brazenness of it all, one noticed, just a few metres away form the centre of anarchy, a police station with several guards chit-chatting outside. Probably one can’t blame them. When in Peshawar, one might as well do as the Peshawaris do.

Nikki.M · February 10, 2006, 7:59am

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Thanks, that made for an interesting read.

pakiplaya · February 10, 2006, 8:02am

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no prob nikki it was nice you read it

Salsa · February 10, 2006, 10:43am

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good job:2guns: :kaboom:

Shikra · February 10, 2006, 1:11pm

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MYwish · February 10, 2006, 1:49pm

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^aaaho

Princess_Fiona · February 10, 2006, 2:16pm

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Peshawar
I miss tat place … I nearly know all the corner of it (especially hayatabad)

sheyn · February 10, 2006, 2:29pm

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It has an old world charm................

parissenoor · February 10, 2006, 2:53pm

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pakiplaya:

Peshawar appears more Central Asia than Pakistan. It’s an old city, one of the oldest in the sub-continent, and was the site of several bloodbaths in history. Yet, it survived them all and is currently a city where the old blends beautifully with the new. You have trendy malls, you also have Chapli kebabs and gigantic naans being cooked outdoors.
The men are big, bigger, biggest and have a medevial, serious look that can have an intimidating effect. Many look more Russian then sub-continental - fair and well-built, crunching your palms during a handshake. :love:
Even light-hearted humour is often accompanied with a stone-faced countanance. When you’re way over six feet tall,** wearing a flowing shalwar-kameez**, and walking as if you are on a warpath somebody is bound to think that you may have an evil disposition. :love:
Karkhana Market is known for several things, least of all for a place where one can buy, hold your breath, guns. It’s a truly astonishing sight with rows of pistols, rifles, air guns, machine guns, Kaleshnikovs and zillion varieties of firearms lining the walls.
Look into the glassed shelves and you get bullets, cartridges, magazines, cases, spares and the rest. Turn around and you see imperial swords – lengthy, curved, sharp and lethal – daggers, stilettos, butterfly knives et all. In one of the shops, a couple of men were diligently making guns – filing, sawing, shaping and oiling.
metres and there is more lawlessness – shops openly selling hashish at absurdly low prices, some trading in smuggled goods (Rolex watches were available for Rs 150!), others dealing in pirated CDs, others selling fake soaps and shampoos. :nono:
What was the best sight of them all? As we were leaving the market, still reeling from the brazenness of it all, one noticed, just a few metres away form the centre of anarchy, a police station with several guards chit-chatting outside. Probably one can’t blame them. When in Peshawar, one might as well do as the Peshawaris do.

i miss Peshawar

Faruk_Khan · February 10, 2006, 3:10pm

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Peshawar is your own land sister, you are welcome anytime, real identities surpass foreign man imposed borders.

Interesting read pp, indeed NWFP/FATA and Baluchistan and Kashmir proper (Pakistan/India Occupied) are Central Asian and very, very distinct from South Asians.

notallthere · February 10, 2006, 10:49pm

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charsi tikka....

Syklops · February 10, 2006, 11:56pm

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should nt this ave been in the travel and places section?

peshawar is definitely a friendly place......very rugged but friendly......if you want an even more non-south asian feel and an even more frontier feel then go to quetta.......if your image of pakistan is of green fields.......then quetta would change your mind completely

compared to quetta , peshawar feels more in tune with the rest of pakistan........quetta has a strong influence from kandahar .....and as far of as iran even............quetta's 3 main languages are Pashtu the most widely spoken one, farsi/dari, balochi, with brohi, uzbaki, turkman, urdu, punjabi, sindhi spoken by a good few people too!

my fave areas of peshawar are nimak mandi, cinema road, saddar from the older side.......but they dont compare to the areas on the western side - university road, hayatbad, university town, the subways selling afghan products etc........

you get large slice of diluted peshawar frmat in karachi too

pakiplaya · February 11, 2006, 9:43am

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thanks guy for reading this infact i would just like to ay our country is full of surprises and blends beautifully with each city having its speciality and carrys old with the new style very well it feels that pakistan is so different that within the country each city is so different yet still we are same and together mashallah se we all pakistani in the end and thats what matters all

blueberry · February 11, 2006, 9:49am

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peshawars good...spent some childhood years there..n luv chappli kababs

pakiplaya · February 11, 2006, 9:50am

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i love you all and pakistan alot especially within our country we get to see each city with a beautiful style it feels excitement and superb