Channan Pir
From the Blog odysseuslahori The festival of Channan Pir lasts a full six weeks through February to mid-March. The shrine is set amid rolling sand dunes, a few kilometres from Yazman (in Bahawalpur district) and is visited, among others, by mothers whose sons were born, so it is believed, after praying here. Cattle owners bring their prize animals to do obeisance so that they may be fruitful and the herds grow. The devotees are spread across the religious spectrum: Muslims, Hindus, Christians. Legend has it that a Muslim saint came to the court of Raja Sandhila, who ruled over this part of Cholistan at some indeterminate time in the past, and asked if there were any Muslims in the country. There were none, he was told. In which case, said this man of god, the king’s pregnant wife was to deliver a son who wpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
The Environment of Small Cities of Pakistan
From the Blog lahoreschoolofeconomics *Call for Papers* First Annual Conference of Department of Environmental Science and Policy Lahore School of Economics *“The Environment of Small Cities of Pakistan”* April 16-17, 2015 From Gwadar in the south to Skardu in the far north, small cities of Pakistan are in the throes of change spurred by social and metabolic processes of global urbanization. While this transformation is uneven and varied it is a trend towards incorporation of the local and small scale in the circuit of global capital. E-waste recycling in Bhakkar or burgeoning health and agro-chemical commerce in Jampur exemplify developments destined to have far reaching socio-ecological consequences. All cities exist in a larger industrial and commercial system. Historically small cities of Pakistan represepakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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