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A Modern Mosque

And the CIA thought there were missiles hidden here...
Peaches!

July 11th 2006
The train to Islamabad was long and hot, but the landscape was intense. From dirty, crowded cities to green green rice paddies to the crazy moonlike salt plains, it was amazing. The salt plains were mostly reddish and jutted up out of the earth like giant honeycombs, pretty cool. Upon arrival we grabbed a room, (slightly ashamed to say it, but it's got cable and air con again, though it was th ... read more
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Pakistani Flag The separation in 1947 of British India into the Muslim state of Pakistan (with two sections West and East) and largely Hindu India was never satisfactorily resolved, and India and Pakistan have fought two wars - in 1947-48 and 1965 - over the disput... ... read more
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