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June 2nd 2013
Published: June 2nd 2013
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One technique the AIOU Computer Science department uses to transmit knowledge to the provinces is video conferencing. I decided to try it out Friday morning. I spoke in front of a small local audience and a large monitor that showed in one window an audience in D.G. Kahn and in another an audience in Umerkot, both distant dusty villages in the badlands of Pakistan. All three audiences seemed equal... Read Full Entry



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This guy is preparing my first chew of beetle. I have been studiously avoiding it ever since I first came to Asia
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Lahorian breakfast
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streets have trucks, cars, rickshaws horses, donkeys, camels, bulls, goats, and pedestrians. All jumbled together,
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More wires. Love 'em. Bzzzzt!
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skyline

Mosque in background, Sikh temple is the white building
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Mirror palace detail

The heads of columns are encrusted with semi precious stones
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King Jahan and his two queens

The throne of the Moghul king and his two queens sat here. Atif and Moiz are the queens
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Kabaddi match

Our driver thought it would be fun to play Kabaddi with me. It's sort of like capture the flag but with tackling



2nd June 2013

I absolutely love these blogs from Pakistan
Keep writing! I want more!!
2nd June 2013

It was interesting to read about the border ceremony from the Pakistani side. It seems to be very similar to the performance on the Indian side, where I was only a couple of months ago (http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Punjab/Amritsar/blog-777544.html). Great fun!
2nd June 2013

A growing posse
Soon you'll need a larger car. Love reading about the rituals and rules. Fantastic stuff. Can't wait to read more.
3rd June 2013

How can you be leaving so soon...
you just got there! What country is next this summer?
4th June 2013

Loved it as usual......
Thanks for sharing, all the pictures and details are wonderful~! You were the perfect American Computer Professor/Chair to be sent over there.
12th June 2013

The Badshahi mosque at Lahore in Punjab District, Pakistan is the world\'s fifth largest mosque and the mosque with the largest mosque courtyard. And have many places which are most famous all over the world if you want to come Lahore then take cheap flights to Pakistan and visit here to look the beauty of Lahore as well as Pakistan.
14th July 2013

I've seen that group shot before.
But it was Edward Lansdale.
4th June 2017

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