A Memorable Reunion in Sargodha
Monday, 24 February 2025
The next day, we gathered at Maj Asghar Hayat Kalyar's beautiful farmhouse, where we were treated to another lavish feast. The Course collectively inaugurated his stunning farmhouse, and the photography enthusiasts among us had a field day capturing memories.
As we bid farewell and headed home in the evening, everyone felt rejuvenated and recharged, carrying with us sweet memories, fresh oranges from Kalyar's farms, and heartfelt gratitude for the warm hospitality of Maj and Begum Kalyar, and the meticulous planning of Asif, our Course Secretary. May Allah bless them all.
55 PMA Blog by Jalal Hameed Bhatti
Labels: 55 PMA, Men At Their Best
posted by S A J Shirazi @ Monday, February 24, 2025,
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Deosai: Land of the Giant
Friday, 21 February 2025

Labels: Books, Deosai, Deosai: Land of the Giant, Nadeem Khawar, Photo Stream, Salman Rashid, Travel Photography
posted by S A J Shirazi @ Friday, February 21, 2025,
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Judge the Nations by the Way They Look at Their Women
Thursday, 20 February 2025

Helen of Troy was the daughter of Zeus and Leda and the wife of Menelaus, considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world. Her abduction by Paris caused the Trojan War and made thousands of ships drown.
Labels: Abbas Khan, Books
posted by S A J Shirazi @ Thursday, February 20, 2025,
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Changing Chitral
Wednesday, 19 February 2025
This is Chitral. On the small airfield, the cold wind thrusts you to shiver. The remoteness of the district has left it undeveloped in spite of its grand natural beauty, hospitable people, and ancient history. The town is a base camp for tourists, adventurers, and researchers from across the world. And, people seem to be living there in peace.
posted by S A J Shirazi @ Wednesday, February 19, 2025,
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Labels: Chasing Life
posted by S A J Shirazi @ Wednesday, February 19, 2025,
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Gogera Sadar
Tuesday, 18 February 2025
The only historic building — a British court — that reminds of the colonial period has been converted into a school. The verandas of the old building with round arches have been clogged to create additional rooms and red thin bricks are covered with coats of whitewash. It was much better if the building could have been conserved in its original shape. That does not seem possible now.
Labels: Gogera, History, Travel
posted by S A J Shirazi @ Tuesday, February 18, 2025,
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Calling Abdalians
Monday, 17 February 2025

Hassan Abdal is famous for its cadet college and also serves as the gateway to some most stunning sites in Pakistan. It is from here that Karakoram Highways turns towards Northern Areas. It is a convenient halting point of Grand Trunk Road (G T Road) from where one can go to places like Abbotabad and Northern Areas, Peshawar, Taxila, Wah, Rawalpindi. Coins of the Greco-Bectrians kings discovered from the adjoining tract suggest that the area was inhabited in first century B.C. Accounts of Xuan Zang, a seventh century Chinese Buddhist traveler tells us that the place was also sacred to Buddhists. However, presently the town is associated with Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikh religion and Baba Wali Qandhari, a revered Muslim saint.
Labels: Hasan Abdal, Panja Sahib, Travel
posted by S A J Shirazi @ Monday, February 17, 2025,
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Trust the process. Stay consistent.
Labels: Chasing Life
posted by S A J Shirazi @ Saturday, February 15, 2025,
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Sitaroon Ki Bastiyan

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posted by S A J Shirazi @ Saturday, February 15, 2025,
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Corporate Blogging
Friday, 14 February 2025
Labels: Corporate Blogging, Fine Art of Blogging
posted by S A J Shirazi @ Friday, February 14, 2025,
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Salt Range
Thursday, 13 February 2025

For those who take their first chance to the area, the landscape all along the Salt Range is rock-strewn, lacking in softness and loveliness. In many parts, it becomes barren and uninviting. But, in truth the range is dotted with historical wonders, romantic legends, archaeological remains, and varying geological formations. Surroundings are very quiet. Urial is also found in the range though facing extinction. A journey along the range is exiting as well as informative.
Labels: Jalal Pur, Salt Range, Travel
posted by S A J Shirazi @ Thursday, February 13, 2025,
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Labels: AI, Chasing Life, Information Technology
posted by S A J Shirazi @ Wednesday, February 12, 2025,
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Din Mein Charagh

For this he has explored annals of history, philosophies, biographies, autobiographies, and literature spread over centuries. He has mediated upon what he finds life building and has put them up in his eleventh book entitled Din Main Charagh for readers to benefit. His other published work includes three novels and seven short story books: Zakham Gawah Hain, Tu Aur Tu and Mein Aur Umrao Jan Ada (novels), Dharti Binam Akash, Tensikh-e-Insan, Qalam, Kursi Aur Wardi, U’s Adalat Men, Jism Ka Johar (short story books) and Reza Reza Keenat and Pal Pal (afsancha -- shortest story books).
Labels: Abbas Khan, Writers
posted by S A J Shirazi @ Wednesday, February 12, 2025,
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Local blog context
Tuesday, 11 February 2025
Labels: Fine Art of Blogging
posted by S A J Shirazi @ Tuesday, February 11, 2025,
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Labels: Chasing Life
posted by S A J Shirazi @ Saturday, February 08, 2025,
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If wishes were horses
Friday, 7 February 2025
Setting eyes on Maqbool and his mule cart for the first time, one could be forgiven for thinking that he belongs to a working class endeavoring for survival. His shabby dress and toes peeping out of slippers too large for him, do not project an image of a contented and happy man who is fond of good animals and racing.
posted by S A J Shirazi @ Friday, February 07, 2025,
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Chakwal: Capital of Salt Range and Potohar Plateau
Thursday, 6 February 2025
Some of the world history has started from this region. The first residents of the land we now call home were Stone Age people in the Potwar Plateau. They were followed by the more urbane Indus Valley (or Harappan) civilisation which flourished between the twenty-third to eighteenth centuries BC. Some of the earliest relics of Stone Age in the world have been found in the Potohar region, with a probable antiquity of about 500,000 years. The crude stone implements recovered from the terraces of the Soan carry the account of human grind and endeavours in this part of the world to the inter-glacial period. The Stone Age men produced their equipment in a sufficiently homogenous way to justify their grouping in terms of a culture called the Soan Culture. Around 3000 BC, small village communities developed in the Potohar area and began to take the first hesitant steps towards the formation of society.
Labels: Chakwal, Salt Range and Potohar Plateau
posted by S A J Shirazi @ Thursday, February 06, 2025,
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Deals in dinning
Tuesday, 4 February 2025
Labels: Food Street, Heritage, Lahore
posted by S A J Shirazi @ Tuesday, February 04, 2025,
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Mandi Bahauddin
Monday, 3 February 2025
The name Mandi Bahauddin originates from two sources: Mandi (market) was prefixed because it was a flourishing grain market and Bahauddin was borrowed from nearby old village Pindi Bahauddin, which has now become part of the town. After the partition, thousands of refugees from India rehabilitated on the evacuee property of Sikh and Hindu landlords. Lately, after the construction of Rasul Barrage, people from the belt along southern edge of Salt Range up to Pind Dadan Khan and other areas across the River Jhelum came settling in the town. Due to migrations and increase in business activities, the town has expanded in all directions. The result is that more than half of the population is living outside municipal limits without any civic amenities. More unplanned localities and kachi abadies are coming up everyday. The tendency to move from rural areas to urban centres is on the increase.
Labels: Travel
posted by S A J Shirazi @ Monday, February 03, 2025,
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"This sin is enough for you (that) you are always arguing."
Labels: Chasing Life
posted by S A J Shirazi @ Sunday, February 02, 2025,
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Descent into Crime
Saturday, 1 February 2025
This article appeared in the Daily The Nation.
Labels: Crimes, In Print, Nation
posted by S A J Shirazi @ Saturday, February 01, 2025,
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