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Posts Tagged ‘lahore’

The Shrine of Madhu Lal Hussain

By Hafeez Malik • Feb 24th, 2013 • Category: Mystic Matters

Historically the city of Lahore is called the Garden of Mughals or heart of Pakistan. It has a history dating back to 3,000 years. Ruled and plundered by a number of dynasties and hordes, the city has seen many good and bad times. However, during Mughal rule (1524 to 1752), it touched the zenith of [...]



1st International Urdu Bloggers Conference, Lahore

By Rai Azlan • Jan 29th, 2013 • Category: Misc

It is perhaps one of the impossible things that in today’s world when you have a massive online presence, you never heard the word “blog”. Blog is a tool that started its journey as record keeping method of daily logs on the web.

Now it has become a powerful tool for communicating our views, and [...]



16,000 Affected, 235 Dead from Dengue

By Mohammad Yusha • Oct 20th, 2011 • Category: Politics

At least 235 people have died of the dengue virus in Punjab, out of which 218 are from Lahore. The number of patients affected from dengue in Punjab has crossed 16,000 with over 14,000 from the provincial capital. (Express Tribune)
The following is taken from the booklet – Protect yourself and your family from dengue.

Symptoms of [...]



Modeling always fascinates

By Tahir Hameed • May 17th, 2011 • Category: Features

Modeling always fascinates men and women and Pakistan seems to be no exception. However theres more to the modeling scene than that appears. Most of the male actors and models are often cajoled and required to indulge in improper acts before they are launched. Female models over here similarly have to perform many strange acts [...]



TIECON Pakistan 2010 - in my views

By Rai Azlan • Nov 2nd, 2010 • Category: Technology

World has turned into global village I agree with the statement but still this immense development cannot coup with when someone truly want to be at one place but is unable to because of the distance between the places he is at and the one he want to be. However still there are tools to [...]



Kill Me Because I Am Not Among You

By Rai Azlan • Sep 4th, 2010 • Category: Features

I have grown up, like many others, in an environment and society where no one was happy to tell me the simple fact that I am Muslim and I belong to Pakistan. It sounds strange but it is a fact, because we have a very strong sense of details we love to divide everything and [...]



TEDxLahore the result of Collective Genius

By Rai Azlan • Aug 1st, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

It was TEDxLahore yesterday, and for me it was like finally the day has arrived. The event ended with great feedback of all types, some of the people were happy to see the effort that the Team TEDxLahore put to make this event reality and some of the people kept complaining about it, as this [...]



TEDx coming to Lahore

By Rai Azlan • Jul 30th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

Now it is the matter of hours for me that TEDx is to show up in Lahore again. Yes,TEDxLahore is coming to Lahore tomorrow July 31,  2010 and this year and it is expected that it is going to be bigger and better than last year. Every year it is the monsoon rain that is [...]



HP Summer Festival in Lahore

By Rai Azlan • Jul 25th, 2010 • Category: Technology

I met HP again, that is what  happened yesterday. I got to  know about HP Summer Festival  through my friend Shiraz Aleem.  It is for the first time that HP held  this event in Lahore; however, it  is a regular summer event in  Karachi. From 21st July to 25th July 25, 2010, HP celebrated [...]



Gol Mal Hay Bahi Sab Gol Mal Hay

By Rai Azlan • Jul 19th, 2010 • Category: Features

Last evening when I logged into twitter after having a hectic day at work I saw some interesting, some regular, some hilarious and some worth RT tweets. While I was scrolling down, I stopped at a tweet from Muhammad Umer Javaid who has his body in Dubai but soul here in Lahore. The tweet was [...]