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lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	Subject : Pakistan before 90s Pakistan before 90s Karachi’s congested Merewether Tower area in 1976. A badly managed economy (through haphazard nationalisation), and the reluctance of the private sector to invest in the city’s once thriving businesses strengthened the unregulated aspects of a growing informal economy that began to serve the needs of the city’s population. The flip side of this informal economic enterprise was the creeping corruption in the police and other government institutions that began to extort money from these unfettered and informal businesses. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 12 2015 12:40:31 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	A western tourist dressed like a local poses with a group of Pushtun children (and a man) outside a shop in the Bara area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (1975). Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 14 2015 04:04:53 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	A vintage 1969 coaster of Pakistani beer brand, Murree. This particular coaster is from the bar at Karachi’s Excelsior Club that was situated in the Saddar area but forced to close down in 1977. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 14 2015 04:06:04 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	Western tourists entering Pakistan Western tourists entering Pakistan from Afghanistan on a bus in 1975 Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 14 2015 04:07:19 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	A 1965 tourism brochure published by the government for tourists interested in visiting the historic Gandhara site (for ancient Buddhist art and artifacts) in the Khayber Pukhtunkhwa province (formerly NWFP). Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 14 2015 04:08:44 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	The women on the cover of the May 1972 issue of Pakistan's The Herald look like they could be in Miami or Athens. The magazine initially focused on the changing fashion and social trends of urban Pakistani youth. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 14 2015 04:10:12 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	Sabri Brothers:- A 1978 French release of an album by famous Pakistani Qawali group, the Sabri Brothers Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 14 2015 04:11:23 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	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. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 14 2015 04:12:29 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	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 Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 14 2015 04:15:23 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	A European tourist with two students of the Peshawar University in an old street of Peshawar (1974). Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 14 2015 04:16:26 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	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). Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 14 2015 04:18:07 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	An American Christian evangelist addressing Pakistani Christians and converts in a village near Abbotabad in 1977. -Picture courtesy Williamson Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 14 2015 04:21:03 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	European tourist family visited pakistan: A European tourist family outside a rest house in Murree, 1974. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 14 2015 04:22:53 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	A special stamp released by the government of Pakistan to mark the centenary of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Karachi (1978). Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 14 2015 04:26:31 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	A 1974 photograph showing the inside of a ‘hashish house’ in Quetta. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 14 2015 04:30:53 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	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. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 14 2015 04:35:24 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	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. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 14 2015 04:40:47 PM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	Peshawar’s Hotel Intercontinental :- Tourists enjoy a buggy ride outside Peshawar’s Hotel Intercontinental (1975). Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 14 2015 04:48:38 PM

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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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Posted on December, 15 2015 10:18:23 AM

lescol Age: 36 3926 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	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. Like no likes.
	Posted on December, 15 2015 10:20:12 AM

lescol

Age: 36

3926 days old here
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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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Posted on December, 15 2015 10:21:19 AM

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