Baluchistan Diary - Day 6 / Loralai water supply

Loralai water supply
Originally uploaded by Ameer Hamza

This is a beautiful place for many reasons. Firstly, it sits on a platform from where mountains rise up. Secondly, there are around 18 places from where water gushes out and is supplied to the city of Loralai. Thirdly, it is a place of much beauty with crystal waters and overhanging grapes.

Here, I would like to add one thing. This pond and subsequent water supply to the entire town of Loralai is a salute to the British engineering in our part of the world. Here, 18 water points have been blocked in a single building and channelized. Open channel goes to the city while the enclosed channel supplies water to the Cant area below, just as it has done since past 100 years.

This expedition is funded by www.pakgateway.com.

Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabvi (salahu alihi wasalam)

Eid-e-Milad
Originally uploaded by Ameer Hamza

KMC Head office building built during British Raj in what is now Karachi, Pakistan, is fully illuminated with yellow bulbs during Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabvi salahu alihi wasalam. Muslims all over the world celebrate the birth of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad Salahu alihi wasalam on 12th Rabi-ul-Awal shareef, according to lunar Islamic calender.

And then there are so-called Muslims belonging to Wahabiya movement from Saudi Arab (inspired by Abdul Wahab Najdi) who call this shirk; who hate lighting of masjids and roads and public places in the name of Muhammad (salahu alihi wasalam). These are the same people who would go to any length to light their homes when their sons and daughters are being married. These are the same people who kill innocent men and women from other religions in the name of Islam. This Wahabism created the likes of Osama bin Laden, Abu Sayaf in Indonesia and Abdul Malik Rigi, the Binoria town educated Wahabi terrorist who has terrorised Iran for so long.

Good News: Yesterday, Rigi was captured by Iranian officials while flying from Dubai to Central Asian republic.

Fort Munro, Punjab

Fort Munro, Punjab
Originally uploaded by Ameer Hamza

There is a Christian graveyard from British era here at the top of Fort Munro mountain. It was a favorite place for many British army officers, many of whom are now buried here.

Many of the tombstones have been either broken or stolen in past many decades which prompted authorities to cage the remaining heritage. As a nation we cannot and do not tolerate minority culture nor do we give a damn to historical artifacts and sites. That's a shame. This photograph was taken in 2005. I am not sure what became of this place.

This town straddles the Punjab-Baluchistan border.