Pakistani security forces deployed at the site of a police training center in Lahore on March 30, 2009. Police and security forces arrested a suspect allegedly linked to a group of attackers who besieged a police academy where 25 people died during pitched battles, police said. AFP PHOTO/ Aamir QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR [...]
Archive for March, 2009
25 Mar
THE LITTLE MAN HAS WON –PAKISTAN -LAHORE
Lahorites take to the streets for ‘change’ photo courtesy http://www.city42.blogspot.com/ THE LITTLE MAN HAS WON –PAKISTAN -LAHORE The chaos that gripped Pakistan this week was an important step on the road to democracy By Farouk Rana, Citizen Special Russian scholar Yuri Gankovsky believed that there are four nationalities in Pakistan: the Punjabi, Sindhi, Pakhtun, and [...]
24 Mar
GURDWARA TOBA BHAI SALO -AMRITSAR -PUNJAB
Friday, March 24, 2009 GURDWARA TOBA BHAI SALO -AMRITSAR -PUNJAB Bhai Salo was a “Sewak”(in service of the Guru) of Guru Arjan Dev. His duty was to collect wood from the jungle for ‘Langar’ (Community Kitchen). Once in the early morning hours while returning from the jungle he falls into the deep well. The news [...]
24 Mar
”DARUU” KA ‘PARSAD’ ……BABA RODE SHAH MELA
RASHMI TALWAR Rode Village (Amritsar) March 2009 In Rome –Bacchus the God of Wine may have countless lovers, bedfellows and followers through the ages, but nothing could quite beat his craziest fans …in a tiny hamlet of India. As spring arrives, ‘Bhoma’ also Popularly referred to as Baba Rode village, just 20 Kms from Amritsar [...]
12 Mar
Four Hindu families from Pak seek refuge in India
Four Hindu families from Pak seek refuge in India Amritsar, March 7 (PTI) Stating that they do not wish to return to Pakistan due to Taliban’s tyranny in the tribal areas, a group of 35 Hindus, nearly half of them women, from the neighbouring country have crossed over to India and asked the government to [...]
7 Mar
Liquor baron wins over Gandhi
PHOTO: Items owned by Mahatma Gandhi on display before being auctioned in New York on Thursday. — Reuters Liquor baron wins over Gandhi BY Ashish Kumar Sen/Vibha Sharma Washington/New Delhi, March 6 Footprints Sandals were given to a British army officer in Aden in 1931 The dinner bowl and pocket watch believed to [...]
7 Mar
Café to ‘desi lassi’ of Rajasansi , AMRITSAR
A small township Rajasansi -, a residence of the erstwhile Sandhanwalia family situated at the Ajnala Pargana, 1 km northwest of Amritsar, on the Amritsar Ajnala Road. It was founded in the year 1570 A.D. by a Jat Raja of Sansi tribe, and hence named Rajasansi . The Sandhawalias – the rulers of Rajasansi – [...]
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