The gorgeous Nanga Parbat

View from the plane – Nanga Parbat

 

First PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf) meeting in Bay Area

Intrigued by PTI and excited by Imran Khan’s message, we decided to find out more about PTI. It just happened that Ali Zaidi, PTI’s International Coordinator, was visiting San Jose on Friday just for a few hours. Though it was a really short notice, we didn’t want to miss the opportunity to have some heart to heart discussion and get our questions answered. We arranged a dinner gathering at a good friend’s place, quite a few people showed up, most in my age group. What followed was a lively discussion in a really friendly atmosphere. Political discussion on hot and controversial topics conducted in an amicable manner, that’s a first in itself. More on the discussion later, for now savor the pictures. Pictures are not so clear unfortunately but oh well.  There was great food in the end too, a lot was left over, we had to finish it the next day.  All in all it went really well.

Living in the bay area and interested in getting involved, feel free to e-mail me. I am just testing the waters myself, wouldn’t mind exchanging notes.  We might be forming a bay area chapter for PTI, e-mail me if you are interested in joining.

 

And you thought White House was nice!

Things were getting a bit heated around here. I thought before posting my response to explain my last post and answer some of the comments, let’s lighten it up a bit. As I was browsing Tehrik-i-Insaaf’s website, I came across the pictures of this outrageously extravagant palace, here they are for your viewing pleasure (clicking on each tiny picture below will open the corresponding full-sized one) -

Like me, you must be thinking whoever owns this house is either a corrupt politician, big time mafia king, a Saudi Shiekh or basically somebody with a lot of black money, after all who else can afford to spend so incredibly lavishly on a house and yet lack the finesse to do a decent job. You are right on all accounts, this is Pakistan’s Prime Minister House. Now I know why they all want to be prime ministers, who wouldn’t wanna live in this palace. I also finally understood why paying taxes is so important, it would have taken at least quarter of our fixed income middle class to build this palace.

 

Karachi is burning

heart-rending pictures of what happened in Karachi

 

Say Hello to high rise living – Lahore Style

http://lahore.metblogs.com/archives/2007/04/lahore_reaches.phtml

BTW, lahore.metablogs is a good blog on Lahore, check it out frequently for updates.

 

Colors of Lahore

As I was browsing around last night and missing Lahore, I thought why not make a collage of pictures showing the versatile and colorful nature of Lahore and of the Lahoris. So here it is 

I put as the background of my desktop and it looks really nice, of course I am biased. Feel free to use/edit. If you edit it, do share with us by posting it in comments.