Javier Solana does Islamabad the Honour

The visits from ambassadors, diplomats, and officials from America, NATO, Common Wealth and European Union are a routine for Islamabad. Recently, the ardent supporter of US attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq honoured Islamabad with his visit. Our history is replete with visits of people like this one..but meek voices go unheard and Islamabad is so much inclined to welcoming such people!!

Transfers at large

Change in the government has its consequences. Just when everything is in a topsy-turvy the government decided to add more to it. To that effect are the transfers of the government officials from different departments. It is yet unknown as to who the face behind these mass transfers. Presumably, the transfer of a single government servant would cost something around Rs.40,000/- under TADA and other miscellaneous heads. Now consider the net amount that the Punjab government would have spent at the end of the day. And just when the future of the present government is uncertain, I wonder where we’d be standing provided we get to see a new government by the next year.

Bike Ride to Khabeki Lake and Kanhatti

Here's another of my bike rides I undertook on Sunday 20th. The journey started at about 7:30am, five of us on three bikes, the destination was the Kanhatti garden in the famous Soun valley.

Both ways we did a total of about 150km ride. Following are the pics with the commentary.

Just as you are about to start climbing the hill, you pass through two gate-like pillars with a brief history of this passage:

The Kanhatti garden:



A natural spring in the garden:


Bikes in the parking lot:





Walking through the garden our way was blocked by this camel whose intentions did not seem too good so we changed our course:













We could see very small fish in this water but not big enough to be captured by the camera's eye:




The garden is pretty vast and rich with shady trees:


Here we enjoyed the cold water for some time:








Ready to head on your way to the Khabeki Lake:


Our rides:




The road:






The CD70 guys were too slow!!


Arrival at Khabeki Lake:


Old graves, I wonder if these are of the soldiers from the world war!


An old tree