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Taking the bus in Pakistan is a colorful adventure. In September 1986 I traveled the bumpy Karakorum mountain road from Rawalpindi to Gilgit. On road, I met a Canadian couple (Harry and Carrie) and we continued to travel all through Xinjiang, Tibet, and Nepal for over 9 months - sometimes on road, you meet people who become more than family.
The picture was originally photographed on slide film with my Nikon FE2 camera and 50 mm lens. I photographed the slide bracketing it with a Nikon D850 camera and enhanced the picture in Lightroom, Photoshop, and Topaz.
Little Swift (Apus affinis) captured at Banni, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan with Canon EOS 7D Mark II.
For detailed information about Birds of Gilgit-Baltistan visit www.birdsofgilgit.com
@Sean , The cobra must have mistaken my short telephoto lens for a pipe !! I moved away after one quick click .
Raja or Saddar Bazar Rawalpindi buzzes with life in August 1985 - people from all over Pakistan flock here for shopping and selling their goods.
The Picture was originally photographed on B&W film with my Nikon FE2 camera and 50 mm lens. I photographed the negative bracketing it with a Nikon D850 camera and enhanced the picture in Lightroom and Photoshop (coloring in Photoshop).
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It was quite an interesting race and first of it's kind in twin city of Rawalpindi, Islamabad.
Amature guys were participating in it and the guy in picture is riding a 70cc bike.
Maritime Museum Greenwich, London,
From Wikipedia
HMS Rawalpindi was a British armed merchant cruiser, (a converted passenger ship employed as convoy escorts, as patrol vessels, and to enforce a blockade) that was sunk in a surface action against the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau during the first months of the Second World War. Her captain was Edward Coverley Kennedy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Rawalpindi
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Have you ever thought of the twins with different ages.... I wonder why we call Rawalpindi a twin city with Islamabad. Hardly seperated by 15 KM and at many places less, actually they lie world apart. Islamabad has existed hardly for 50 years, where are Rawalpindi has existed for centuries, may be thousand of years.
Rawalpindi's charm lies in its traditional, somewhat chaotic subcontinental hustle and bustle atmosphere in its traffic-jammed mostly narrow streets, contrasting quite sharply with the tree-lined alleys, cleanliness and peace of Islamabad.
Rawalpindi does have much to offer for visitors. Specially when you enter the Old City Bazars, Like Bhabra Bazar, Purana Qilla, Bagh Sardaran, the centuries old building tell you the story of this wonderful city's life across the span of times.
Taken: Ramadan PhotoWalk, PPA Meetup, Old Rawalpindi City.
Raja or Saddar Bazar Rawalpindi buzzes with life in August 1985 - people from all over Pakistan flock here for shopping and selling their goods.
The Picture was originally photographed on B&W film film with my Nikon FE2 camera and 50 mm lens. I photographed the negative bracketing it with a Nikon D850 camera and enhanced the picture in Lightroom and Photoshop (coloring in Photoshop).
Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated Thursday in Rawalpindi, was the first female prime minister of Pakistan and of any Islamic nation. She led Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996.
Benazir Bhutto died Thursday after a suicide bombing at a political rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Bhutto, 54, spent eight years in self-imposed exile in Great Britain and Dubai after President Farooq Leghari dismissed her second administration amid accusations of corruption, intimidation of the judiciary, a breakdown of law and order, and undermining the justice system.
She was found guilty of corruption and sentenced to five years in prison. The conviction was later overturned but she remained in exile until this year.
She returned to Pakistan in October after President Pervez Musharraf signed an amnesty lifting corruption charges. Watch political history of Bhutto ยป
"Bhutto was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, former president and prime minister of Pakistan, who was hanged in 1979 for the murder of a political opponent two years after he was ousted as prime minister in a military coup. Benazir Bhutto was the de facto leader of her father's Pakistan People's Party.
Her brother, Murtaza, was killed along with six others in a 1996 shootout with police at his home. Another brother, Shahnawaz, died mysteriously in France in 1985.
"I know the past is tragic, but I'm an optimist by nature," Bhutto told Blitzer in September. "I put my faith in the people of Pakistan, I put my faith in God. I feel that what I am doing is for a good cause, for a right cause -- to save Pakistan from extremists and militants and to build regional security.
"I know the danger is out there, but I'm prepared to take those risks."
Benazir Bhutto earned degrees from Radcliffe College and Oxford University and received an honorary degree from Harvard University in 1989.
She leaves her husband of 20 years, Asif Ali Zardari, two daughters and a son.
Bhutto's husband issued a statement Thursday from his home in Dubai saying, "All I can say is we're devastated, it's a total shock."
(excerpts from cnn)
We went to Peshawar to attend a research conference. A day well spent. We had our research and our poster to present. It was fun explaining our research. Our research was on adult ADHD.
This shot was taken on our way back from conference when we were headed back to Rawalpindi.