Live from Pakistan

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Wednesday, December 8, 2004

Greetings from Islamabad

I arrived in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, on 5 th afternoon, a 2 hour plane journey from my hometown Karachi, located on the southern tip of the country, a major port and former capital of Pakistan. I have come to Islamabad to attend the first ever International Conference on the role of... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, December 4, 2004

Holy Trinity Church, Karachi

Today, as we stood in the deep shadow of the nave of the Holy Trinity Church, entertained by the all-girls band of Trinity Methodist School, it was a wonderful sight to see Muslim and Christian children joining hands together to clean and wash the historic church. The Trinity school band is... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, December 3, 2004

Safeguarding Karachi's heritage

Although Karachi has got the largest number of historic buildings that have been declared protected heritage, not much has been done to clean them. These historic buildings, built during the British period (1843-1947), are an eclectic mix of European imagery and local ornamentation and are quite... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, December 2, 2004

World AIDS Day

Several activities were held yesterday in Karachi for awareness-raising regarding the dangers of AIDS. The Governor of Sindh led the walk along with his cabinet colleagues. Unfortunately, the cases seems to be growing rapidly. They say there are almost 1,000 reported cases in Sindh; however, all... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, December 1, 2004

Desire for peace

Yesterday, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz declared that Pakistan would like to have peaceful relations with all countries of the region, including India. He was addressing the inaugural session of the general assembly of the Association of Asian Parliaments for Peace (AAPP), held in Islamabad. In the... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Culture Sector and HIV/Aids

Yesterday Pakistan hosted the first Women, Girls and HIV/Aids Best Practices Conference for the Asia Pacific region. The conference was attended by Ms. Nafis Sadik, a brilliant Pakistani woman and a long term UN official, who is currently UN Special envoy for HIV/Aids. Considering how quickly Aids... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, November 29, 2004

Karachi moves forward to present its cultural heritage

I wrote about World Heritage Sites of Lahore yesterday. For most Pakistanis, Lahore is the cultural capital of the country, and rightly so. The city can trace its lineage to many centuries past and boasts a number of educational institutions and cultural centres. Lahore has nurtured many art... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, November 28, 2004

Pakistan’s World Heritage Sites

I have been not been able to write for so long but am glad to be back because I love Blogit. Even when I did not write I have continued to visit it. I am going to try and write regularly, although I may not be able to post as much as I would like to. There is much that is happening in Pakistan on... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, November 27, 2004

Karavan Online Classroom

Today is an unusual day for us. We are in a government school for disadvantaged children where students of private upper middle class schools are joining hands with government school children to paint their classroom. Writeups by school children are being posted. Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, March 3, 2003

Interested in archaeology, history, South Asia, Central Asia?

As I mentioned in my blog yesterday, a reception for the participants of UNESCO-Heritage Foundation Pakistan Workshop and Resident, UNESCO was arranged at Gor Khuttree by the Head of Peshawar Planning and Development Agency. This is an ancient site, its antecedents traced to the Indo-Greek period.... Sign in to see full entry.

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