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City Hangouts – Roadside Cafe

Karachi Walla’s favourite hangout. Roadside makes you happy. It is one of the rare places where your focus is not on the menu but the company you have got. Therefore your experience is going to be as good as the people you are hanging out with. It becomes a natural extension of your living space. […]

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Karachi Landmarks – Misri Shah

Misri Shah is one of seven saints gurading Karachi from natural disasters. He is also regarded as Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s brother. To get to his shrine you have to take Khayaban Hafiz (one starting from Gizri and heading to DHA) and go past Sultan Mosque and subsequent commercial area (where all the big honchos of […]

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Karachi Life – Monsoon Days

It was yet another exciting monsoon day. It was full of clouds with sporadic showers. From the rooftop Karachi beach looked stunning. I ignored it and kept working on increasing shareholders’ wealth. The clouds outside kept pledging to go out and celebrate the weather. Winds struck the floor with purpose. lightinging joined. Clouds started shading […]

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Karachi Landmarks – Shah Ghazi

On an overcast day I decided to climb the hill and say my prayers in front of Ghazi Sahab. There is a vast parking lot at the bottom of the hill so going there in a car is not a problem. It was early morning for a Sunday and there was not darbar distinctive crowd. […]

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Karachi Notebook – 59th Pakistan Flower Show

Annual flower show is a regular spring event in Karachi now. Its held every year in Seaview park adjacent to McDonalds by Horticultural Society of Pakistan. The set of activities has been expanding and this year it also included public awareness sessions on gardening and water conservation techniques.

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