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When Lahore is celebrating Basant, there is a man, Shaukat who entered the city with the dead bodies of his five children, injured and exhausted wife, and his now only child a baby girl.

The Supereme Court of Pakistan ordered a ban over kite flying in Punjab to combat the side effects of Basant. Government of Punjab, removed the ban for two days to celebrate Basant in Lahore. Strict measures are taken to protect innocent lives and infrastructure, and to maintain law and order during Basant. But how could you expect the wild masses to abide the law when the wild government itself has teared it up into pieces.

This, the country of contrasts is full of conflicting stories. In another city, Peshawar, schools were threatened to be attacked by suicide bombers if they do not end up their co eduction school system.

A provincial minister gets killed by a lunatic, who is crazy about saving the Islamic identity of Pakistani women. This is the country where one province is moving fast towards Talebanization and another province trying hard to depict liberalization and freedom by breaking the law.

A woman mourning over the dead body of her relative who died during the terrorist attack on Samjhota Express.

Women in Lahore wearing smiles and buying kites to celebrate Basant.

School girls in Islamabad running during the inter school competitions.

Principle of Girl’s school in Mardan, a city in Pakistani province NWFP. Wearing Burqa and telling media about the threat letters she has recieved from Taleban to follow the strict Islamic burqa guidelines.

When Lahore is celebrating Basant, there is a man, Shaukat who entered the city with the dead bodies of his five children, injured and exhausted wife, and his now only child a baby girl.
The Supereme Court of Pakistan ordered a ban over kite flying in Punjab to combat the side effects of Basant. […]

Did you know that PIA flew its first service with the Super Constellation on 07 June 1954 on the route linking Karachi and Dacca (now Dhaka), which were the main cities of the country’s western and eastern halves? History of PIA is a website dedicated to the history of Pakistan International Airline. It has some great photos of early days PIA and interesting facts about the history of national flag carrier airline.

History of Rail Transport in India. The article doesn’t cover the developments in the areas that are now in Pakistan. Indian Railways Fan Club has more comprehensive history of Railway in India, including a historic railway map of India from 1893 showing developments in Western sub-continent that now makes Pakistan.

Adda-Fication is doing a series on the events of 1971, fall of Dhaka and creation of Bangladesh. In the first post of this series, the author was asked:

My new friend went to ask if I picked the Bengali side or the Muslim side in that fight.

While you are there, don’t forget to read ‘Speaking of Pakistan‘.

Jahan-e-Rumi has a post about public sculptures of Lahore. Rumi’s post is based on a post by Sheraz, but I can not find a link to the original post.

Did you know that PIA flew its first service with the Super Constellation on 07 June 1954 on the route linking Karachi and Dacca (now Dhaka), which were the main cities of the country’s western and eastern halves? History of PIA is a website dedicated to the history of Pakistan International Airline. It has some […]