Gypsy Women Cooking food on road site in Rawalpindi Pakistan. Picture courtesy Irshad Ahmed of APP
Category: Life in Pakistan
The wine-makers of Pakistan’s Hunza Valley
The hems of his jeans rolled, Ahsan* climbs barefoot up a tree to pick the grapes dangling from climbing vines, defying hostile religious injunctions against alcohol to celebrate a wine-making tradition of Hunza Valley in the mountains of Pakistan. Every autumn in the remote village near the foothills of the…
Islamabad attracting the people from other areas
Islamabad the planned capital of Islamic Republic of Pakistan is becoming home to many poor families from different regions of Punjab. People flock to Islamabad to find work, peace and some times even education for children. Many people come with families and live straw houses. The following picture is a…
Khyber Steam Track abandand
Khyber steam track which once used to take tourists across the Khyber pass are now abandand this is an interesting image taken by Mr. Iqbal Goraya of Nai Baat newspaper. Picture shows a local sleeping on the tracks using one of the iron tracks as a pillow.
Chakwals oldest cultural fair defies modernism
CHAKWAL: Feb 19: A bull show, locally called Jalsa, held in a village here the other day provided much-needed excitement and recreation to the local people. Talagang Road leading to the Mureed village witnessed an unusual flow of traffic. There were trucks loaded with bulls, and people travelling on tractors,…
Cobbler of Pakistan invents Shoe Hospital
Pakistani society is full of humer at times and some of the peope off the street are very creative too. Here is a cobler who has invented a new way to customers by writing a poetry calling his road site shoe mending spot the hospital for shoes. The black board…
Puri the traditional breakfast of Pakistan
Puri is a flat bread deep fried in oil served with a curry of chick peas and hot spiced potatos in the morning. It has become a traditional breakfast of Pakistani Urban areas over the years. The Puri is usually cooked at small shops in bazaars of Pakistan and usually…
Searching Lice
Picture of Pakistani family of 3 girls and mother searching for lice in each others head
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