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The stream of life keeps flowing without a break and brings with it newer charms and fresher temptations. The experiences we undergo in the presentmoments seldom let us turn back and have a look at the wonders bequeathed to us by the generations of bygone times.

                   Future pours in drop by drop
                   And is lost in the unfathomable
                   Abyss of Past
                   Present stands waiting
                   But its turn never comes  
                                                     By Syed Hasan Hamid Naqvi

So we live in past or we live in future. However there is another choice also – a more balanced and desirable one. WE MUST LIVE BOTH IN PAST AND FUTURE. All experiences are in a flux. We, in our everyday life, drift on the waves of stream of consciousness – now reaching for future, now receding to past. This we willy-nilly do. This we must do religiously and conscientiously. Searching for the broken links is a noble act – the one which keeps engaged the highest ones of all human endeavours, the prophet, the saint, the scholar, the scientist, the poet and some neglected niches of our beautiful motherland the philosopher.

 This blog explores in a limited way some famous and PAKISTAN.   Exploration of Pakistan – a civilization that boasts rivalry with Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greek civilizations.

 Happy sojourn here.

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