Life so far has been a journey of discovery, adventure, achievements and failures. It has traversed the meanders, bogs, valleys and occasionally risen to the peaks. I guess it is all part of the package and we have to urge ourselves and keep moving. The past few years have been very frustrating as our national identity is ridden with controversies and politics of expediency. Ruling elites continue to sacrifice the national existence for personal political gains, while hidden hands continue to wreak havoc for short term inconsequential gains. Pakistan is at crossroads of the 'Conflict of Geography' surrounding us, and the 'Contradictions' possessing us like a demon. In this challenging travesty, I enjoy the luxury of an excellent family and dependable friends who back that fire within me and provide the zest to move on.
I pray I keep my sense of hunger and wonder.
Star and Crescent
How God Made it. I took this photograph at Sawan Gas Fields in NARA Desert in 2007. Long Live Pakistan.
The Peak
Nibbling the third highest summit of Pakistan as Felix Oppenhiem took this photo enroute to Gashebrum 1 (8068 M) in August 1982.
Inside a snow cave at above 7000 M
Mother Nature. The cave offered the only protection against a blizzard of blinding snow. This was Eid ur Fitr 1982.
The old course of the Great Nara River
Challenge Me! The shape of the stones suggests that the lost river called Sarasvati in Vedas and Nara/Reini and Hakra in folklore, once flowed here.
Loneliness
On the highest sand dune summit of Pakistan in NARA Desert April 2005.
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