Archive for 'Islamabad Diary'
It’s hot, it’s fun, it’s Ramadan
I have managed to survive the first 10 days in Pakistan and I am even coping quite well with Ramadan. On Sunday, 23 August, this holy festival, a month of sunrise-to-sunset fasting, began. It is quite interesting to be, and work here during this month, as I have never been to an Islamic country during [...]
Posted: August 27th, 2009 under Islamabad Diary.
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Islamabad – like Rubik’s Cube
This might be a weird association with a city, however, that is how I feel about the town planning of the Pakistani capital. According to the online encyclopaedia ‘Wikipedia’ Islamabad is ‘one of the most organised and well-planned towns of South Asia’, and this does not surprise me. The whole city is divided into different [...]
Posted: August 22nd, 2009 under Islamabad Diary.
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Exercising in Islamabad
After an interesting direct flight with Pakistan International Airlines from Kathmandu, where I seem to have been the only woman and the stewardess asked me where I was going (??), I have finally arrived in Islamabad. It is always strange to come to a new country where you do not know the culture, you have [...]
Posted: August 19th, 2009 under Islamabad Diary.
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