Lahore sky
Shot at different times in April 2012. I need to update my flickr. (via umalik)
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Got published in Asia Society blog: Some of my photographs from the Urs of Sufi Saint Ali Hajveri got published on Asia Society blog earlier today (Photos/Video: Desperately Seeking Spirituality in Lahore).
Am thankful to Nadia Rasul for finding them worthy enough for an inclusion. However for the kind of interest it has generated, I understand that it will not have many people pleased but that is what my opinion of the gathering was. You might consider me myopic in my approach here, but well that is my approach and as always I shall stick to it unless proven wrong. And of course as always when I am proven wrong I will admit it publicly.
Complete set can be found here.
edit: I will eventually start proofreading….in not so distant future! (via umalik)
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Ava Gardner shooting a scene at the Lahore Railway Station in 1954.
(via um-er) Absolutely love Nadeem Paracha’s photoblog “Also Pakistan” on DAWN’s website today.
Not because it shows bikini-clad women riding a camel on Karachi beach or some Hollywood actress shooting a scene at Lahore railway station but because it shows how tolerant as a society we (Pakistanis) were.
It all went wrong when we started SELLING Islam instead of practicing it.
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A Pakistani Christian girl sits among religious posters on display for sale in a public park during Easter celebrations in Peshawar.
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Time in Lahore
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Thank you Nushmia for the submission.
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Last Sunday I went to the Lahore Downtown, Mall Road and area around it. It was interesting to see a side of Lahore one would generally ignore. If you want to know the stories behind these images you can check my photoset on Flickr for details. (via umalik)
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At the summit (by Sumaira Jajja)
“How can you not be inspired when you are walking every single day of your early life in the shadow of the greatest mountains on planet earth, be it Rakaposhi or Nanga Parbat?” says Nazir Sabir.
Sitting in a crowded lobby of a local hotel, it might seem hard to distinguish Sabir from average middle aged Pakistani men but what sets him apart from others is his resolve for climbing and the laurels he brought to the country in the niche sport of mountaineering.
From sharing camaraderie and climbing with one of the greatest climbers in the world, Reinhold Messner, to scaling the Everest, the path Sabir chose not only defied convention, but also proved to be an inspiration to many all over the world.
Born in a small hamlet called Ramanji in Chiporsun, upper Hunza, Sabir says he was fascinated by the stories about the ‘big mountains’ which porters from that area shared. (Complete article)
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Edifice.. by M Atif Saeed on Flickr.
(via transylvanialand)
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Uncredited photograph of a rural area in Pakistan. (via liketencents)
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