Sunday, April 06, 2008

Trip

Last week, I had a chance to visit Islamabad after almost ten years. Me and three of my colleagues flew from Karachi on Thursday at 1900hrs and reached Islamabad at 2200hrs. We checked in our rooms and went for a walk and dinner to Jinnah Market, came back at around 0030hrs and went to sleep. woke up at 0600hrs, had breakfast, attended the meeting and went to Rawalpindi to catch the Daewoo Bus to Lahore at 1900hrs. We reached Lahore at 2230hrs, checked in to our rooms and had dinner. We slept at 0230hrs and woke up again at 0830hrs to go to Pakpatan which is a 3.5 hours drive from Lahore. Pakpatan has the "Door to Heaven" and the shrine of a famous sufi saint. We came back from Pakpatan at around 1700hrs and then went to Data Darbar in Lahore, offered Maghrib prayers there and then had dinner at a restaurant called Dera. Slept at 0030hrs, woke up at 0730hrs, caught the flight back to Karachi and came back home at around 1400hrs on Sunday.

I had the chance to see how beautiful Pakistan is and how wonderful its people are. The trip was completely full of fun and extremely exhausting. However, its memories will always remain with me because I had a really good time :) (even though the way I've narrated it, it seems as if it was really dull and boring, haina? :p)

And I don't know if I should tell this or not, but I prayed for most of you by name at Data Darbar. I wish and pray that may all of you prosper and find happiness in your lives, ameen.

And the thing I was doing in my last post is changing my job after three years. Please pray that everything goes well, inshaAllah.

Take lotsa care and keep smiling :)

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