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		<title>Hundreds of parks now victims of PHA neglect</title>
		<link>http://lahorenama.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/hundreds-of-parks-now-victims-of-pha-neglect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>malikfz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nauman Tasleem
LAHORE: The Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) is neglecting hundreds of small parks in different parts of the city.
The authority has been focusing on 600 parks, including a few main public places, while ignoring the remaining 400 situated in different localities of the city. The PHA was established in 1998 with the objective [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lahorenama.wordpress.com&blog=2525426&post=1522&subd=lahorenama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saddam hotel in old Lahore</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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Saddam hotel in old Lahore, originally uploaded by Jahane Rumi.


A few weeks ago when I took my friend for a tour inside the lanes of old Lahore, we spotted this little streetside &#8216;hotel&#8217; or a dhaba that has been named after Saddam. The dictator is dead but his memory lives in public imagination as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lahorenama.wordpress.com&blog=2525426&post=1521&subd=lahorenama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Say a little a prayer for Lahore</title>
		<link>http://lahorenama.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/say-a-little-a-prayer-for-lahore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>malikfz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
By Ahmad Rafay Alam

The only thing as incredulous as the recent announcement by the Government of Punjab &#8212; it intention to construct a highway through the heart of Lahore &#8212; was the recent statement of the CEO of Fashion Pakistan Week that their glorified display of clothes was a &#8220;gesture of defiance towards the Taliban.&#8221;

Our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lahorenama.wordpress.com&blog=2525426&post=1519&subd=lahorenama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A HIGHER LOVE</title>
		<link>http://lahorenama.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/a-higher-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>malikfz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Nizam-un-Nisa Ayeda Naqvi on November 12, 2009
Not too far from where I live, in Lahore, Pakistan, is a little shrine. It is not the mausoleum of a famous poet or a Sufi saint, but the resting place of two star-crossed lovers who were denied the sanctity of marriage by their society almost five [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lahorenama.wordpress.com&blog=2525426&post=1516&subd=lahorenama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lahore Coffee House</title>
		<link>http://lahorenama.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/lahore-coffee-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>malikfz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raza Rumi (published in The Friday Times)
Before his death in July 2009, KK Aziz had accomplished one mission
that he had set for himself, i.e. to write about the Lahore Coffee
House, the glorious nursery of ideas. Luckily, despite his failing
health, Aziz finished a draft that was meant to be a shining part of
his autobiographical kaleidoscope. “The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lahorenama.wordpress.com&blog=2525426&post=1508&subd=lahorenama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lahori malangs shine at SAARC festival in Chandigarh</title>
		<link>http://lahorenama.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/lahori-malangs-shine-at-saarc-festival-in-chandigarh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>malikfz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Shahzada Irfan


CHANDIGARH, India:  A thunderous applause and endless admiration followed the dhamal performance of malangs from the shrine of sufi poet Shah Husain in Lahore, in the city’s Tagore Hall on Saturday.
The malangs, who came here to participate in the second SAARC Folklore Festival, have become an instant hit and are being requested by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lahorenama.wordpress.com&blog=2525426&post=1503&subd=lahorenama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Punjab Assembly turns into a &#8220;fish market&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://lahorenama.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/punjab-assembly-turns-into-a-fish-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralam420</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has to be one of the most riveting descriptions of an Assembly session in recent memory. Brilliant stuff. Far more entertaining than TV. Wait, this should be on TV!!
From The News (http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=206968)
Punjab PA turns into fish market as Sana, Zaheer trade allegations
Friday, November 06, 2009
By Babar Dogar
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly turned into a fish [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lahorenama.wordpress.com&blog=2525426&post=1501&subd=lahorenama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s time for the October Critical Mass Lahore!!!</title>
		<link>http://lahorenama.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/its-time-for-the-october-critical-mass-lahore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ralam420</dc:creator>
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Join Lahore&#8217;s 11th Critical Mass Event at 10:15am this Sunday 25 October 2009 from the Fountain Square, Neela Gumbat, behind Bank Square on Mall Road, Lahore.
This Critical Mass cycling event ill see us prowling the innards of Lahore where riding a bike offers the chance to sample more of  Walled City life without picking a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lahorenama.wordpress.com&blog=2525426&post=1497&subd=lahorenama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Not in This Portrait</title>
		<link>http://lahorenama.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/whats-not-in-this-portrait/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>malikfz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By MELIK KAYLAN
The overriding question you will likely take into the Asia Society&#8217;s show of Pakistani artists is, &#8220;What do they think of what&#8217;s happening to their country?&#8221; How do artists address the Islamist violence in their midst—and if they don&#8217;t address it, why not? How freely can they treat such issues without fear of reprisal? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lahorenama.wordpress.com&blog=2525426&post=1494&subd=lahorenama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan police targeted as attacks kill 15</title>
		<link>http://lahorenama.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/pakistan-police-targeted-as-attacks-kill-15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>malikfz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mubasher Bukhari
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) &#8211; Gunmen attacked police offices in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Thursday and a car bomb exploded outside another in the northwest, killing at least 15 people after a week of violence in which more than 100 people died.
The attacks in Lahore in Pakistan&#8217;s heartland province of Punjab and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lahorenama.wordpress.com&blog=2525426&post=1491&subd=lahorenama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do not enter Lawrence Gardens without a permit</title>
		<link>http://lahorenama.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/do-not-enter-lawrence-gardens-without-a-permit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raza Rumi
The NEWS have published this editorial entitled &#8211; morality brigade -on how public spaces are being denied to the youth in Lahore. This is deplorable and needs to be questioned&#8230;
A bizarre notice, worded in Urdu and installed at the Bagh-e-Jinnah in Lahore, warns students that they are not allowed to enter the public garden, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lahorenama.wordpress.com&blog=2525426&post=1487&subd=lahorenama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indo-Pak Sikhs mark birth anniversary of fourth Guru</title>
		<link>http://lahorenama.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/indo-pak-sikhs-mark-birth-anniversary-of-fourth-guru/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAHORE: About 500 Sikh pilgrims from neighbouring India and hundreds others from across Pakistan, gathered in the eastern city of Lahore on Friday to mark the 475th birth anniversary of Guru Ram Das, the fourth great Guru (spiritual leader) of Sikhs.

Guru Ramdas Sahib (also addressed as Jetha ji) was born in 1534 at Chuna Mandi [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lahorenama.wordpress.com&blog=2525426&post=1484&subd=lahorenama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merchant collection nets £653,000, necklace at £55,200</title>
		<link>http://lahorenama.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/merchant-collection-nets-653000-necklace-at-55200/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oct. 8: Indian-born producer-director Ismail Merchant’s personal art collection sold for £653,000 at an auction by Christie’s in London.
The highest price was paid for the painting by Hungarian artist August Theodor Schoefft, entitled The Thugs of India halt at the shrine of Ganesh, which was sold for £91,250 to a private British collector. The unusually [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lahorenama.wordpress.com&blog=2525426&post=1482&subd=lahorenama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NECKLACE OWNED BY WIFE OF THE LAST SIKH RULER, THE LION OF THE PUNJAB, FOR SALE AT BONHAMS</title>
		<link>http://lahorenama.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/necklace-owned-by-wife-of-the-last-sikh-ruler-the-lion-of-the-punjab-for-sale-at-bonhams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>malikfz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An important 19TH Century emerald and seed-pearl Necklace from the Lahore Treasury, reputedly worn by Maharani Jindan Kaur wife of Ranjit Singh, the Lion of the Punjab (1780–1839), is for sale in Bonhams next Indian and Islamic sale on 8th October 2009 in New Bond Street.

The necklace has six polished emerald beads, one later converted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lahorenama.wordpress.com&blog=2525426&post=1478&subd=lahorenama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lahore Arts Council to host international moot</title>
		<link>http://lahorenama.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/lahore-arts-council-to-host-international-moot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAHORE: The Lahore Arts Council (LAC) will host an International Literary and Cultural Conference in the second week of November. Addressing a meeting on Tuesday to review administrative arrangements for the conference, LAC Chairman Ataul Haq Qasmi said it was part of the council’s efforts to promote literary and cultural activities. Internationally-acclaimed writers and critics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lahorenama.wordpress.com&blog=2525426&post=1475&subd=lahorenama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lahore now the most polluted city in Pakistan?</title>
		<link>http://lahorenama.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/lahore-now-the-most-polluted-city-in-lahore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much for &#8220;development&#8221;, so much for the overpasses, the underpasses, the Foodstreets, Jashn-e-Baharan, the Lahore Road, Rehabilitation Project, all of the PHA&#8217;s many &#8220;efforts&#8221;, beautification and so on.  So much for it.  Lahore is now the most polluted city in Pakistan.  Surely someone should accept the fact that the medicine is killing the patient.
The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lahorenama.wordpress.com&blog=2525426&post=1462&subd=lahorenama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Lahore returnee</title>
		<link>http://lahorenama.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/a-lahore-returnee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend who just returned to Lahore after spending years in Europe wrote this letter. I quite liked this piece of writing: therefore, with his permission I am posting it here with suitable edits. I think sometimes stuff out of heart leads to great writing. Raza Rumi
Hey there,
Have been back in the mothersisterland for a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lahorenama.wordpress.com&blog=2525426&post=1460&subd=lahorenama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s time for September&#8217;s Critical Mass Event!!!</title>
		<link>http://lahorenama.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/its-time-for-septembers-critical-mass-event/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fellow Lahoris, Critical Mass Lahore has survived the summer and has been enjoyed through Ramzan.  Now, it&#8217;s time to rally once more for the cause of public transport, sustainable development, democratic public spaces and, of course, the right to have fun on our own streets!!!
Join Lahore&#8217;s 10th Critical Mass Event at 5:00pm this Sunday 27 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lahorenama.wordpress.com&blog=2525426&post=1448&subd=lahorenama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Savign Punjab on Punjabi connection (a must-visit blog)</title>
		<link>http://lahorenama.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/savign-punjab-on-punjabi-connection-a-must-visit-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dear friend and a former colleague Sukhie has started a lovely blog that brings together the Punjabi connections spread far and wide. This new post is worth a look:
Saving Punjab
A Sikh architect is helping to preserve cultural sites in the north Indian state still haunted by 1947’s heart-wrenching Partition
* By Geoffrey C. Ward
* Photographs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lahorenama.wordpress.com&blog=2525426&post=1445&subd=lahorenama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Honouring Zaheer Kashmiri and the PWA, Lahore, Sept 9</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raza Rumi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy Beena Sarwar
Dr Farrukh Gulzar, the progressive minded medical practitioner from Lahore who was the driving force behind the Reference for Dr M. Sarwar and the 1950s student movement on Aug 8, has now thrown his energies into helping organise a remembrance for the late poet Zaheer Kashmiri. Friends in Lahore, please do attend. Here [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lahorenama.wordpress.com&blog=2525426&post=1442&subd=lahorenama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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