Six Significant Moments from Multan’s History Captured in Paintings at Multan Airport

During my recent travels to Multan for PSL 8, with my team Karachi Kings, I was struck by some of the beautiful paintings on the walls of Multan Airport. These paintings depicted significant moments from Multan’s rich history, showcasing the city’s cultural and historical significance.

Wearing shoes of a ‘Social Media “Expert”‘ for a Morning Show

Can’t believe it has been 17 years

She was not to live long and died at 35, on this day 17 years ago, to stay forever young and beautiful in our minds. RIP Nazia Hassan

Love isn’t something we invented

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A 1951 brochure of a Pakistani company (based in Sialkot) specialising in the making of musical instruments from wood and cow skin. Sialkot is still famous around the world for its quality sporting products (especially cricket bats, hockey sticks and footballs), but for many years it was also one of the top producers and exporters of music instruments. Many western pop and jazz musicians used drums made in Sialkot across the 1950s and 1960s.

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A 1955 bottle of Pakola. Every Pakistani knows about Pakola Ice-Cream Soda. The bright green coloured soft-drink that is also hailed (unofficially, though) to be ‘Pakistan’s national soft-drink.’
But for the first few years Pakola struggled to find a market for itself that was packed with popular soft-drinks such as Coca-Cola, 7Up and Bubble-Up. By the 1970s however, Pakola finally established itself as a popular soft-drink.

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Che Ernesto Guevara, standing along side Pakistan’s first military dictator, Ayub Khan.
Guevara stayed for a short while in Karachi during his whirlwind tour of Arab and third world countries (in 1959). He again visited Karachi in 1965

I’m coming home…

 

You are still missed

From the Golden era of early 90s.

Can’t there be an end?