Friday, August 31, 2012

How To Make an Electricity-Free Refrigerator


 

How To Make an Electricity-Free Refrigerator 


How To Make an Electricity-Free Refrigerator


Conventional refrigeration does an incredible job keeping food fresh. But that technology hasn't helped desert dwellers without steady electricity. A more recent development in refrigeration—the Zeer pot-in-pot refrigerator—only requires water, sand, and a hot, dry climate to preserve produce through evaporative cooling. Here's how to make the simple gadget.

Materials and Tools Required

  • two terra cotta pots with a 2-3 inch difference in diameter. The smaller pot should be glazed and preferably lacking a drainage hole. If the inner container is double glazed (on its inner and outer walls), non-potable water—say seawater—can be employed.
  • a bag of sterile sand
  • a square of burlap cloth large enough to cover the top of the inner pot
  • a trowel

Building It

  • 1. If your pots have drainage holes, plug them with a bit of cork, caulk, or other waterproof material. If you don't, moisture from the sand will seep into the lower pot and immerse the stored goods or seep out the bottom of the larger one.
  • 2. Put down a one-inch deep, level layer of sand in the bottom of the large pot. Set the smaller pot on top of that layer and center it in the larger one. Make sure that the smaller pot's lip is even with the larger one's.
  • 3. Fill sand in around the sides of the of the two pots, leaving about an inch of space below the lip.
  • 4. Pour cold water over the sand until it is thoroughly saturated. Put your food into the smaller pot. Cover that with a burlap cloth, also soaked with water. That's it! Just be sure to refill the water regularly, about once or twice a day.

How It Works

The Zeer was developed in 1995 by Mohammed Bah Abba, a Nigerian school teacher that hailed from a family of pot makers. The design is incredibly simple: a glazed earthen ware pot nestled inside a larger, porous one with a layer of wet sand separating them. As the water evaporates through the surface of the outer pot, it draws heat from the inner one, keeping up to 12kg food fresh for as long as three to four weeks without using a single watt of electricity.
For his efforts, Bah Abba was awarded the $75,000 Rolex Award for Enterprise in 2000 and the World Shell Award for Sustainable Development in 2001 to help spur its development. Presently, Bah Abba sells about 30,000 Zeer per year for 200 Nigerian naira ($1.30) a piece.

Why It Matters

For unprotected food in the North African heat, there is no such thing as a shelf life. Fresh fruit and vegetables last maybe a day or two, and meat spoils within hours. This means that most food must be either sold or consumed immediately. Taking produce to market, in Sudan at least, is a task that typically falls on the women. This tight freshness deadline leaves little free time for their education. But if they had to go to market only weekly, rather than daily, they might actually have time for school—that's the promise of the Zeer.
The Zeer benefits not just individuals but the greater Sudanese society as well. Farmers are granted greater negotiating power when they don't have to sell their wares right there and then. Parents see fewer cases of food-borne illness. And when disease does occur, water and temperature-sensitive medicines can also be preserved in the cool pots.
For the rest of the world, the Zeer represents a zero-electricity option for refrigeration. In extended power outages like the ones we've seen this summer, long after the local store sells its last bag of ice, the Zeer could be your best chance to keep critical perishable goods from spoiling in the heat.

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Re: A new Oxford online WWI course

Dear Elsa
 
On your Ieper visit, did you by any chance visit the IRISH FARM military cemetery?
 
And did you go and see the POOL OF PEACE (Spanbroekmolen lake) in Wytschaete-Messines? The 'Pool' is one of the scars in the landscape of  WWI. It is a remainder (and likewise a reminder) of the British all-out attack of early June 7th, 1917, when around 20 massive underground mines were detonated along the Ypres Salient; this happened with a view to blowing the German army off the fortified belt of strongholds, which they held on the crests of the Salient. 
 
The unique thing about Wytschaete-Messines was that Regiments from both sides of the Ulster-Irish border (the 16th and the 36th) were involved in the attack. Unfortunately for most of these forces, the whistle that gave the sign for jumping out of the trenches was blown a few seconds before the mine was detonated and most soldiers were blasted to smithereens and pulverized.
That is why the LONE TREE cemetery, which is on the opposite side of the road (near some farmer's meadow actually), contains mostly 'SOLDIER(S) OF THE GREAT WAR (known unto God)'.    
 
Best regards,
 
Chris

Op dinsdag 28 augustus 2012 08:43:10 UTC+2 schreef Elsa het volgende:
Dear Meg,

Did you have the chance of enrolling on the new WWI course? When I checked it out yesterday, I found that the course already was fully booked, and the next time for it is Hilary term 2012 - Mon 28 Jan to Fri 12 April 2012.

It feels very tempting, doesn´t it? Would be nice having course-mates from this group.

I have enrolled on the Modern Irish Literature course, and Ireland, too, was very much involved in the WWI. When I visited Ieper, we also looked Irish war graves around the town. It´s the architect Lasdun who has designed the grave monuments, if I remember it rightly.

It would be surprising if the WWI wouldn´t be at all mentioned during the course. I will inform you when it happens.

Best

Elsa





From: Meg Crane <megm...@gmail.com>
To: ww1...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, 13 July 2012, 0:17
Subject: Re: A new Oxford online WWI course

Dear Elsa
 
Thank you for drawing our attention to this. It's not expensive as they go, and  I'm extremely tempted - I just wonder whether I've really got ten hours a week to spare, since I'm still teaching full-time  ....
 
It would be terrific if more than one of us did it, so that we could support one another ....
 
Does anyone know more about Dr Mark Philip Radford, who seems to be the tutor?
 
Meg

On 8 July 2012 08:36, Elsa Franker <elsaf...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Dear all,

Next term, Michaelmas 2012, Oxford will be doing a new course on the WWI, the web-link is:


and the course is called:

The First World War in Perspective (Online), Wed 3 Oct to Fri 14 Dec 2012 and it gives 10 CATS points.

The course looks interesting, and I think it would be an excellent companion course to the English Poetry of the First World War course. 

It doesn´t say who is going to tutor the course, does anyone know who will be taking on his course?

Best wishes

Elsa



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Just a suggestion...DEFICIT SOLUTION..WARREN BUFFET


 
 
Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:

"I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just
pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more
than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible
for re-election.

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds)
took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple!
The people demanded it. That was in 1971 - before computers, e-mail,
cell phones, etc.

Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took one (1) year
or less to become the law of the land - all because of public pressure.

Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to
a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask
each of those to do likewise.

In three days, most people in The United States of America will
have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed
around.

Congressional Reform Act of 2012


1.
No Tenure / No Pension.

A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no
pay when they're out of office.

2.
Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social
Security.

All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the
Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into
the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the
American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

3.
Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all
Americans do.

4.
Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.
Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

5.
Congress loses their current health care system and
participates in the same health care system as the American people.

6.
Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the
American people.

7.
All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void
effective 12/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women.


Congress made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in
Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their
term(s), then go home and back to work.

If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will
only take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive
the message. Don't you think it's time?

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!


If you agree, pass it on. If not, delete.
You are one of my 20+ - Please keep it going, and thanks


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                   
 
 
 
 

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Forget SCO, Indians have sabotaged it successfully .


 Forget SCO, Indians have sabotaged it successfully .

http://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/thread-722920-1-1.html

 

 

Forget SCO, Indians have sabotaged it successfully

 

 

stealth

2011-12-17

 

Moscow: Russia's sudden anouncement of its full support to India's candidature for the permanent membership in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) [1] comes after Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Moscow in an effort to further isolate and encircle China. To make matters more complicated, Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev has officially decalred in a joint statement with his Indian counter part that Russia welcomes India's intention to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and calls on member states to speed up the accession process. [2]

Analysts say that Russia's prime minister should not have forgotten the fact that SCO member states cannot have disputes with each other. This was the argument Russians gave while the proposal of Pakistan's inclusion arose. [3] "Or was Medvedev well aware of this basic condition for the inclusion of any entity into the SCO while demanding India's inclusion?" "Did he want to intentionally give entry to a country that has been keeping a major portion of Chinese land under its military occupation and constantly threatens to nuke China every now and then?" asks one of the analysts.

"It was the success of India's shrewed diplomacy" says one analyst. "It reflects how cunning the Indians are and how effective diplomatic steps they take in advance," he continues saying, "even before one could realize what the Indians were up to." Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the analyst also opined that China's diplomatic leaders should attend classes in geo-politics and geo-strategy before going to their respective offices. "It is evident that the Indians have been succesfully sabotaging all the startegic alliances China built except that of between China and Pakistan" he added.

Recently India has been busy doing aggressive diplomacy to contain China's peaceful rise. The recent Indian military aggression in the South China Sea against Chinese vessels and deployment of nuclear capable missiles targetting major Chinese cities are seen as provocative moves by many analysts. [4] [5] [6]

A visit to India by Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith this month has resulted in initial moves to strengthen military cooperation and boost trade. These steps follow the lifting of a ban on the uranium sales to India by the Labor government of Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the announcement in November that northern Australia will become a key staging base for US military operations in the Indian Ocean.

Closer ties between Australia and India are inseparable from the escalating US agenda of containing China's influence throughout the Asia-Pacific region. The US perspective is a "trilateral arrangement" that would see greater coordination and joint operations by the US, Indian and Australian navies in the eastern Indian Ocean. Australia's refusal to sell uranium to India on the grounds it was not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was an obstacle that had to go.

Defence Minister Smith arrived in New Delhi on December 7 to begin forging the type of partnership demanded by the US. Smith met with Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony, National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon and the heads of the Indian armed forces. At a subsequent press conference, Smith, using the words of the US ambassador, said the Australian government had removed the "impediment" to relations by ending the ban on uranium sales.

Smith announced that Australia and India had agreed to expand "practical cooperation" on military issues. He stressed that "maritime security and cooperation, the South and East China Sea were part of the conversation." Against China's claims of sovereignty over the South China Sea, Smith and Indian officials echoed the US position that "freedom of navigation" had to be upheld across what is a strategically sensitive region for China. Indian oil companies are already openly challenging China's assertions of sovereignty in the South China Sea by entering into contracts to explore for oil in areas claimed by Vietnam.

Australia holds 40 percent of the world's available reserves of high grade uranium and can now
sell unlimited quantities to Indian energy companies. India's own limited reserves of uranium can therefore be dedicated to expanding the country's stockpile of nuclear weapons. While ostensibly aimed against Pakistan, India's nuclear arsenal is ever more openly intended to match China's and to assert Indian aspirations for geopolitical prominence in Asia. The most recent nuclear-capable Indian rocket, the Agni V, was provocatively nicknamed the "China Killer" by the country's press because, with a range of 5,000 kilometres, it could hit targets in every part of China.

The US has a clear military strategy against China, which hinges on being able to impose a naval blockade on key sea lanes between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The aim would be to cripple China's economy by cutting access to critical energy resources and raw materials from the Middle East, Africa and Australia. India and Australia, which have the largest and second largest navies respectively among Indian Ocean countries, are crucial to US planning. Increasingly, Indian naval activity, including joint exercises with US forces, is focussed on the waters near India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which are located close to the Straits of Malacca. Most Chinese imports and exports pass through the Straits of Malacca.

India's training exercises near the Straits of Malacca will complement stepped-up US and Australian operations further south. Very large ships cannot pass through the shallow Straits of Malacca and have to use the deeper Sunda Straits and Lombok Straits through the Indonesian archipelago. The northern Australian city of Darwin has been selected as a US military hub due to its proximity to these straits.

Also under study is the establishment of air bases on the Australian territories of the Cocos Islands and Christmas Island, which are even closer to the Indonesian sea passages. On the pretext of blocking refugee boats reaching the Australian mainland, the Australian military already uses surveillance bases on Christmas Island to carry out extensive monitoring of vessels across a broad sweep of the eastern Indian Ocean, including the sensitive straits. Major diplomatic exchanges are predicted to take place in 2012 to further cement ties, including a visit to India early in the year by Gillard, and a reciprocal visit to Australia by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

 

 

 

http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/international/12-May-2012/russia-wants-india-pakistan-in-sco

 

Russia wants India, Pakistan in SCO

 

May 12, 2012,

 

 

Russia wants the process of India and Pakistan's membership to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) speeded up, RIA Novosti reported. Russia's acting Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this while taking part in a meeting of foreign ministers of SCO member states here in Biejing. He said delaying the decision on the membership of India and Pakistan was "counter-productive". The SCO, set up in 2001, includes Russia, China, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Pakistan, India, Iran and Mongolia have observer status while Turkmenistan and Afghanistan attend SCO gatherings as guest nations.

 

China has held the organisation's rotating presidency since Aug 1, 2011. Meanwhile, Lavrov said that an international meet on Afghanistan will take place in Kabul June 14. "We should actively participate in all international discussions on Afghanistan-related problems, coordinating our positions and stressing the SCO's readiness to constructively contribute to efforts by the international community aimed at the political and economic revival of Afghanistan," said Lavrov. The minister said granting SCO observer status to Afghanistan would help achieve these goals.

 

 

 

http://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/thread-748851-1-1.html

 

Don't ignore India's nukes

 

By JANE HARMAN Los Angeles Times

May 14, 2012

 

'We urge all nuclear-capable states to exercise restraint regarding nuclear capabilities," a State Department spokesman said last month after India successfully blasted its new long-range Agni 5 missile into the Bay of Bengal. But he quickly softened the admonishment: "That said, India has a solid nonproliferation record."

 

Washington's oddly relaxed approach to India's nuclear program goes back to 2008, when Congress approved the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement. Under it, India agreed to separate its military and civil nuclear facilities and to place the latter under International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards in exchange for a U.S. guarantee to work toward full civil nuclear cooperation with New Delhi. Today, India is still the only country to have been accommodated in this way since the establishment of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in 1968.

 

In 2008, as a member of the House who sat on all of the major security committees, I was concerned about the quiet acceptance of India's nuclear activities that the agreement represented. I was one of 59 representatives who opposed it. Four years later, India's missile test leaves me even more troubled by Washington's tacit acceptance of New Delhi's nuclear program.

 

The timing of the launch was puzzling to say the least. It came just one week after North Korea's failed missile test, which cost that country 240,000 metric tons of food aid that Washington had promised in February. India has an explicitly stated no-first-use policy and is widely viewed as a U.S. security ally. But that doesn't mean we should turn a blind eye to India's actions. It was noticed around the world that Washington reacted so strongly against one missile test in the region while essentially turning a blind eye to another. Pakistan quickly followed with its own missile test and is believed to be expanding its already large nuclear arsenal at a time when its government is fragile and U.S.-Pakistan relations are at a low point.

 

These tests also occurred just a month before a second round of talks scheduled to take place between Iran and the United States, China, France, Britain, Russia and Germany. Why, Iran might wonder, should it dismantle its nuclear program if India, which also once faced tough U.S. sanctions, can now get away with firing a long-range missile? A North Korean foreign minister made an uncomfortably similar point a few months after Moammar Gadhafi's death. "The Libyan crisis is teaching the international community a grave lesson," the foreign minister said in defense of his country's nuclear program. North Korea's songun ideology was the only guarantor of peace on the Korean peninsula, he said.

 

In other words, leaders be warned: Dismantle your nuclear program in response to international pressure and you'll find yourself dismantled. In Tokyo last month, an Indian policymaker told me there was nothing significant about the timing of India's missile test -- that New Delhi had been planning it for a long time. It may be that India and now Pakistan think such conduct will not affect events outside of their sandbox. This myopic view is dangerous.

 

In recent weeks, the word "wary" appeared in many reports about New Delhi's missile launch. "India, wary of Beijing, tests nuclear-capable missile," one headline read. Other articles noted that "China and Pakistan reacted warily" and that the U.S. had issued a "wary" endorsement. But "wary" may not be wise. Just as the killing of Gadhafi in Libya may teach that giving up weapons of mass destruction makes you vulnerable, so these tests -- without serious responses -- may also spur reckless conduct. Wisdom counsels zero tolerance.

 

Jane Harman is CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She was a nine-term congresswoman from California.

 

 


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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Pakistan was so Peaceful and Innocent.

Just to freshen old memories………
 
 
A strange, alien place that was also called Pakistan.
 
 

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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.
Then in 1955 it even had to print the words 'Non-Alcoholic' on its bottles because thanks to its striking colour, some stores (in Karachi) actually began storing it alongside their stock of alcoholic beverages!
By the 1970s however, Pakola finally established itself as a popular soft-drink.

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The charismatic Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of the popular US President, J. F. Kennedy, visited Pakistan in 1962. Here she is seen riding in an open-top limo with the then ruler of Pakistan, Ayub Khan, in the Saddar area of Karachi jam-packed by young men and women who had gathered on both sides of the road to greet her.

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Crowds gather at a runaway at the Karachi Airport to witness a 'flying parade' and joint military exercises of American and Pakistani armed forces (1953).

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A modern 'rail car' made in Pakistan with the collaboration of Japanese engineers parked at the Lahore Railway Station in 1964. Popular with travellers wanting to move rapidly between cities, the cars were commissioned out of service in the 1980s.

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The iconic Mausoleum of Pakistan's founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, under construction in Karachi. This picture was taken in 1965. The imposing structure was finally completed almost five years later.

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A 1967 image of the American Embassy in Karachi. It was one of the most recognisable buildings in Karachi's Abdullah Haroon Road area.
Built in 1958, the Embassy, apart from handling the visa issuing operations, also had a large library.
As can be seen in the picture, it hardly had any barriers or security and its doors were open to all.
However, from the late 1980s onwards, when Islamist violence began to rise within Pakistan, the Embassy was fortified by a tall wall.
Later, especially after the tragic 9/11 event and after the building faced at least three terror attacks in the 2000s, the walls were thickened, barriers placed and security tightened.
The library that was hugely popular with Karachi's school and collage students was closed and the visa section was moved to Islamabad.
In 2011, the building was abandoned and the Embassy was moved to a different location in Karachi. The building still stands, though.

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A scene of a snow-covered street in Quetta (1968). The street, called Layton Road, today has lost almost all of the beautiful old trees that can be seen in the picture.

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The first pages of a detailed book written by a professional travel writer from the United States. The book was published in early 1962 – a time when various American airlines and travel writers were heavily promoting Pakistan as a tourist destination.
The image is that of Karachi's Zoological Garden that was then called the Gandhi Garden.

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A 1963 brochure printed by the government of Pakistan. The influx of western tourists arriving in the country had risen by the time this brochure was published. It contained maps and names of famous tourist spots, beaches, mountain resorts, hotels, nightclubs and bars in the country (both in West and former East Pakistan).

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A 1966 Pakistani press ad announcing the launch of famous Australian car, Valiant, in Pakistan. It was one of the first cars to be assembled in Pakistan. –Picture courtesy DAWN.

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Girls taking part in a swimming competition at a sports complex in Karachi in 1970.

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VHS cover of Pakistan's first horror and 'X-rated' film, Zinda Laash (The Living Dead). Released in 1967, the film was a huge hit in an era when the Pakistan's film industry was dishing out an average of 50 films a year, most of them romantic fantasies.

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This poster attacking the 'imperialist grip of the American CIA' over various 'third world countries' (including Pakistan) began appearing on the walls of colleges and universities of Karachi and Lahore in 1968. The poster was originally designed in South America but was reproduced in Pakistan by radical leftist student groups during their movement against the Ayub Khan dictatorship (1968-69). –Poster courtesy Rashid Chaudhry.

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Students belonging to the left-wing National Students Federation campaign during a student union elections at the Karachi University in 1969. –Picture courtesy: Tarek Fateh.

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The first men on the moon land in Pakistan. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin (the first men to land on the moon), arrived in Karachi in early 1970 during their tour of South Asia. Here they are seen being greeted by an enthusiastic crowd just outside the Karachi Airport. –Picture courtesy LIFE.

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A young Pakistani woman sitting on her motorbike in the Soldier Bazzar area of Karachi (1969). –Picture courtesy Zarmeena P.

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The December 1971 cover of Time magazine. The main story detailed the breaking away of former East Pakistan (after a bloody civil war with the West Pakistan army) . The picture is that of a Bengali militant celebrating the defeat of the West Pakistan military.

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An intriguing June 1971 photograph of a West Pakistani soldier searching an East Pakistani Bengali in Dhaka (the former capital of East Pakistan).  –Picture courtesy LIFE.

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Two displaced and poverty-stricken children stand in an open field surrounded by used artillery shells in a village in former war-torn East Pakistan (1971).

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A stamp celebrating Pakistan's victory in the 1971 Hockey World Cup held in Barcelona, Spain.

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A serene image of Peshawar's famous 'Kisa Kahani Bazaar' (Storytellers' Market) in 1972. A culturally rich and ancient marketplace, the area has continuously come under terrorist attacks by Islamist militants ever since the early 2000s.

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A college student poses in front of a street in Quetta in 1972.
Today, Quetta is plagued by brutal violence involving Sunni sectarian outfits, Baloch nationalist groups and the Pakistan military.

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A 1972 picture showing European visitors and local Christians seen during a passing out ceremony at a Catholic school in Rawalpindi. –Picture courtesy John Meacham.

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A young 8-year-old Shahrukh Khan (current Bollywood star) visited Pakistan with his family (as a tourist) in 1973. Here he is seen during his family's visit to Swat. –Picture courtesy Luqman Ghauri.

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A 1974 photograph showing the inside of a 'hashish house' in Quetta.

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A poster of 1973 film 'Operation Pakistan.' A B-grade film made by a Greek director, the film was released in Pakistan in 1973. It is about the adventures of an FBI agent who tracks down hashish smugglers in Turkey, Iran and Pakistan. The characters of Pakistanis (seen below left) were all played by amateur Pakistani actors. The film was a box-office flop.

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An early 1970s press ad of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). PIA was considered to be one of the ten best airlines in the world between 1962 and 1980.
It constantly scored high for having 'best in-flight entertainment,' business class, 'most convenient connections', 'delicious cuisine' and 'a wide selection of wine, whiskeys and beer.'

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A 1973 press ad of the famous Hotel Midway House in Karachi. The hotel was owned and run by PIA. It was located near the Karachi Airport and was popular with tourists and locals alike for its barbeque restaurant and nightclub. It was eventually closed down in the mid-1980s.

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A 1974 T-Shirt.

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Tourism in Pakistan grew two-fold in the 1970s. This special stamp was issued
by the country's Ministry of Tourism in 1975.

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A Swiss tourist gets his car's tank filled at a gas station on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border (1974).

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A European tourist with two students of the Peshawar University in an old street of Peshawar (1974).

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A European tourist family outside a rest house in Murree, 1974.

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Tourists enjoy a buggy ride outside Peshawar's Hotel Intercontinental (1975).

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Pakistani actress and model, Bindia, at a cultural festival in Karachi (1975).

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Famous revolutionary poet, late Habib Jalib, enjoys a drink with veteran journalist, late Khalid Hassan, and friends at a restaurant in Karachi in 1975.

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Western tourists jam with a Pakistani tabla player in Karachi (1975).

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Pakistani test cricketers Sikandar Bakht and Javed Miandad in 1976.

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A 1978 French release of an album by famous Pakistani Qawali group, the Sabri Brothers.

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Cover of a live album by popular Indian ghazal duo, Jagjit and Chitra. The album was recording during one of the many live concerts the duo played during their tour of Pakistan in 1978.

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Altaf Gohar and Khalid Hassan with Noble Prize winning Pakistani scientist, Dr. Abdus Salam (centre) in the late 1970s.

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1977 cover of famous Pakistani Urdu magazine, Dhanak. Radical in its aesthetics, the magazine was hugely popular with young men and women. It covered fashion trends, ran film reviews and also had left-leaning articles on politics.
A number of noted progressive Urdu intellectuals such as Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Munir Niazi, Mumtaz Mufti, etc., wrote regularly for Dhanak.
It was edited and published by Sarwar Sukhera. In 1979 it became the first publication to be directly clamped down by the reactionary Ziaul Haq dictatorship that took over power through a military coup in July 1977.
Deemed as 'anti-Islam' by the Zia regime, Dhanak offices were attacked by Jamat-e-Islami goons and Sarwar was arrested for committing 'treason'.
Sarwar went into exile after the magazine was shut down. –Picture courtesy: Laleen Khan.

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A promotional shot of famous PTV play, Uncle Urfi (1975). It was one of the first PTV serials that is said to have 'made roads empty of cars and people' during the time of its telecast (8 PM every Saturday).

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A group of European tourists travelling and enjoying a cup of tea on a Pakistani train, 1976.

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A German tourist outside a ' hashish shop' in the tribal areas of former NWFP
(now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), 1976.
With the state of Pakistan having little influence in such areas, shops selling
hashish sprang up when young western tourists began to pour into Pakistan
from Afghanistan from the late 1960s onwards. (See also 'Hippie Trail' in
Also-Pakistan I, II and III).
Today however, these areas are strictly off-limits not only to foreigners but
also Pakistanis due to the war between Islamist insurgents and the Pakistan
military.
The fate of the shops is unknown. -Picture courtesy Dan Atkinson

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A special stamp released by the government of Pakistan to mark the centenary
of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Karachi (1978).

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Before the great Janagir Khan and Jansher Khan in squash there was Qamar Zaman. Here he is seen arguing with the umpire while on his way to beat the then No: 1, the Australian, Jeff Hunt, during a final played in Karachi in 1976.

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An American Christian evangelist addressing Pakistani Christians and converts in a village near Abbotabad in 1977. -Picture courtesy Williamson

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Pakistani star batsman, Javed Miandad, smashes the stumps after being given
out LBW in a test match against India (1979).

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Imran Khan was one of the first Pakistani cricketers to appear in press ads and
TV commercials. Here he is seen with Indian batsman, Sunil Gavaskar, in a
1979 ad for Indian soft-drink, Thumbs-up.

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Pakistan Peoples Party supporters mourn and pray just outside the grounds
(in Rawalpindi) where PPP Chairman and former Prime Minister, Zulfiqar Ali
Bhutto, was hanged by the Ziaul Haq dictatorship in April 1979. This picture
was taken in October 1979.

 

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