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Thar Desert Festival puts Tourism Ministry to Shame

Kamal Siddiqi March 4, 2007

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#1 Posted by Nasruminallah on March 5, 2007 1:13:19 am
what else is there to expect from Vultures, hyenas and rent seekers. Oh sorry I forgot, please also count ``state of the art sycophants``. This what we have here and this is what we have to put up with.
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#2 Posted by ijaz_gul on March 5, 2007 3:10:16 am
The answer lies in handing over such stuff to Private Sector Event Managers. Neelofer must have been informed that temperatures in end feb soar to about 40C.
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#3 Posted by Ally on March 5, 2007 6:42:06 am
Its also Visit Malaysia year... as you can see if you ever watch CNN...

#2 has a good point... govt is shit at everything... PIA is banned from Europe now, not a very good impression to Euro people if the country is promitng itself (very badly) and then its airline gets banned for crap planes!!!
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#4 Posted by Mota-Bacha on March 6, 2007 1:25:42 pm
``Its all an american and jewish conspiracy``

:-)))

Did anyone catch the instructions by our imported PM to the tourism ministry to ``make sure that 1 million tourists visit Pakistan this year`` Ludicrous isn`t it??

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#5 Posted by ejazharoon on March 6, 2007 7:26:58 pm
I remember traveling by Jeep to Umerkot in the mid-70`s, when I was all of 7 years old. It was a decent size town in the middle of nowhere. Living in Dubai the the early 90`s I came across many Sindhis whose families were from that part of Scinde, but who had been driven out or had chosen to leave (ostensibly on religious grounds). The despotic junta that rules Pakistan should put its money where its mouth is and return that looted land to its rightful hiers. It bolis my blood to see my taxpayer dollars being wasted so the Pakistani military can purchase more weapons to put down its people.
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