The Apricot Road to Yarkand
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
The Apricot Road to Yarkand is a spellbinding tale of journey from Shigar Valley to Yarkand in the North, over the glaciated Mustagh Pass by Salman Rashid. The author is master of conveying what seems to be going on in his heads in gripping prose that is never clichéd.
Read more »Labels: Books, History, Salman Rashid, The Apricot Road to Yarkand, Travel
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:30 AM,
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Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch - the Honorary Doctor of Science
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch has been working tirelessly on Appropriate Technology in Cameroon, Pakistan and elsewhere.
Labels: Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11:00 AM,
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Geeky tweet of the day
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Labels: Geeky Tweets, Sweet Tweets
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 7:33 AM,
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To my surprise
Friday, July 20, 2012
“Education has broadened the vision. Democracy has advanced equality. Human rights have increased the human value. Most of all, the world has become a global village. Western liberties are finding their way in the east. And all these developments suggest that I will be able to reach the zenith on the basis of sheer hard work.”
I kept looking at him while hearing his arguments and before I could say something, train arrived; my friend boarded it and went off.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11:28 AM,
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At Lahore School Annual Conference on Management of Pakistan Economy
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Lahore School Annual Conference on Management of Pakistan Economy May 4-6, 2011
Labels: Lahore School of Economics, Pakistan Economy
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 3:50 PM,
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Love me alone, no one else
Monday, July 2, 2012
Calculated love
I saw a matrimonial add online. It was given by a girl herself.
Her profile read, “22 year beautiful girl, MBBS, hight five feet eight inches, color white, a clinic in America and big piece of agri land back home.”
She had also added a semi nude display picture to catch the attention.
We asked our friend Ikram Athar to heave a look, “you were looking exactly for similar girl. Go ahead.”
“How can I marry her,” he replied sadly?
“Like anyone else can do,” we all replied unanimously.
But she lacks one major quality I need.
Which one? We asked.
She doesn’t love me. And I don’t know here, he offered his excuse.
Shoaib Ahmed, another of our friends came up and married the girl in a jiffy.
He was a businessman.
Read more »Labels: Abbas Khan, Books, Fiction, Literature, Sitaroon Ki Bastiyan
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 8:00 AM,
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