this article was written?by Mohammad?Salman?of dawn.com it basically?sheds?light on the phenomenon that the old architecture of karachi?is being mixed with new hence both mingle to bring about some thing different. courtesy dawn.com…
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NATO’s Exit from Afghanistan – Possible ways
Nato is planning for an Exit plan from Afghanistan during the NATO summit in Chicago. ?It is reported that they have charted an outwardly confident path to a postwar Afghanistan, there were…
Katas Raj ponds drying up due to water supply
The scred ponds at Katas Raj temples are drying up due to the tubewells in the area by a cement factory nearbye. On the other hand water from the pond is being…
From Lyari with love – The Stone age by Dawn
This is Lyari ? a?neighborhood?that everyone in Karachi talks and knows about. A pertinent question: how many Karachiites, other than those who live here, have ever set foot in the area? Answer:…
Preedy Street Karachi – Remains of the Day
IT is quite astonishing how sometimes journalists and columnists are unable to see, if not overlook, startling pieces of information that can make their writings doubly exciting. There can be a number…
Travel being
I am just a human being who likes to travel and many times for profit.?Unfortunately?profit has become more of a motive for me as I being a tourist guide always travel for…
Sindhi Sufi poets promoted progressive thinking
LAHORE, March 3: On the completion of 75 years of Progressive Writers Association of Pakistan, a seminar was organised at the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in which writers and intellectuals threw…
Wazir Khan Mosque rediscovered – Book on architecture launched
ISLAMABAD: Wazir Khan Mosque was rediscovered Friday at the National Art Gallery when Memoona Khan introduced her book she had written on its ancient architecture. The associate professor, author and chairperson at…
Anarkali Myth, Mystry and history
njoying the rich architecture and the cultural-historical treasures of Lahore, one cannot help being awed by the grandeur and the mystery of a Mughal-era tomb’s pale-white dome situated inside the south-western boundary…
Conserving wetlands thrugh tourism
By Nasir Ali Panhwar IN areas of natural attractions, eco-tourism is often used as the primary justification for developing hotels/ motels and other facilities, mainly because of its socio-economic benefits. If ecotourism…
Gora Qabrustan – Christian Cemetery Karachi
THE silence is tangible. Graves do not speak. They remain hush-hush and communicate through quietude. Quietude has its own language ? language of unrealised dreams, of a life well-led or of untimely…
Situation in Balouchistan
Before I begin my observation about Balouchistan, let me tell you what is Balouchistan? Most of our people do not know that before the siege of the English Balouchistan was an independent…