Monday, August 13, 2018

The New Islamabad International Airport - ramblings from May 2018

A few weeks back, I had the chance of flying out from one brand new international airport to another. Eager to witness Islamabad finally casting off its pockmarked 2015 Rankings (by an international watchdog, Sleeping in Airports) that placed it amongst world’s top ten worst airports, I tried to document my experience.  Of course, I had great expectations from the much trumpeted, league-upping,...

Friday, March 2, 2012

Islamabad's visual junkyard

Gone are the days when you could serenade the Islamabad skyline no holds barred. Even on the highway that peaceful, easy feeling has given up to a jangle of breeding-by-the-minute streamers, billboards, mopies and whatnot. These are the rankling times of advertisement ad-nauseum, where every khamba,...