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Is this thread about development in Pakistan or development in Punjab?
What about other provinces?
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Lahore: Best Western Hotel
New Recruit
Is this thread about development in Pakistan or development in Punjab?
What about other provinces?
Development does not mean skyscrapers, government needs to build thousands of schools across balochistan and Khyber, Khyber lacks basic necessities like hospitals and roads, hope our idiot government wakes up.Plus Khyber Pakhtunkhawa and Balochistan are good the way beautiful deserts and beautiful valleys highrise would kill its natural look no need for these states to have skyscrapers. I don't even support the Gwadar project it would just look messy just like Phoenix, Arizona or Dubai.
Amazing did Pak government just bought this franchise or is it an old building I know for sure ever since Zardari came he did not bother about foreign franchises this building is probably from Musharraf's time
Development does not mean skyscrapers, government needs to build thousands of schools across balochistan and Khyber, Khyber lacks basic necessities like hospitals and roads, hope our idiot government wakes up.
A historic cafe renowned for its artistic and intellectual clientele in the Pakistani city of Lahore has reopened after 13 years.
Literary circles in the city say that they are overwhelmed with joy over the restoration of the Pak Tea House.
The Mall Road cafe was established in 1940 when it was known as India Tea House before it was renamed after the partition of India in 1947.
It was central to the city's artistic and political life for decades.
Hideout of choice
Literary and artistic activity in Lahore has traditionally revolved around cafes and restaurants.
These places became the haunts of intellectuals, writers and artists who spent hours drinking endless cups of tea on subjects which were close to their hearts.
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Famous Tea House regulars
Fiction writer Intizar Hussain
Eminent Urdu poet Meera Ji
Urdu short story writer Saadat Hasan Manto
Influential left wing intellectual Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Writer and actor Kamal Ahmed Rizvi
Urdu and Punjabi poet Munir Niazi
Pakistani classical singer Amanat Ali Khan
In the colonial era, Lahore was full of restaurants and hotels, most of which lined the famous Mall, offering food, snacks and drinks.
The India Tea House, established originally by two Sikh brothers, was one such favourite watering hole.
Since then, it has become the hideout of choice for all leading writers of Urdu.
In 2000 cafe owner Zahid Hussain closed it down as a non-profitable venture, planning instead to start a new business at the same location.
But intellectuals resisted the move and demanded its restoration.
"When the Pak Tea House was closed we lost an opportunity for social, cultural, political and intellectual discourse," columnist Attaul Haq Qasim said.
"We still have a few iconic writers, so now young people have this place where they can sit with them and learn through their experiences."
Even during repressive times writers expressed themselves freely at the Pak Tea House, which remained a symbol of intellectual resistance.
The government has restored the facade of the building in its original form but the interior has been completely renovated.
Short story writer Neelum Ahmed Bashir is one of those who has welcomed the re-opening.
"Society should be more sensitive towards writers," she says, "because they make this world more human and worth living.
"The disconnect between intellectuals and common people has resulted in frustration and chaos in our country."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21716603