Badshahi Mosque, Lahore (This one is not a running blog ... but could've been had my india-pak-marathon-plan worked out :), which was to run from Lahore to Amristar - a flat 26.2 mile course but as they say in Pakistan, "Next time Insha allah!) A thought Pakistan has been an enigma to me. There has been an intense desire to be there! Not sure if it was stories I heard growing up (my maternal grand father studied at DAV college, Lahore and my paternal grandfather had a little shop in Lahore before he moved to Delhi a little before partition), or was it over dose of Sunny paaji's movies , Kushwant's singh 's books, or my past visits to border areas of Punjab, Jammu and Rajasthan (when you could see across the border but couldn't cross) -- I have had dreams of visiting this land for the longest time! AK is a good friend and he hails from Lahore (well Pindi actually but more on that later). A lunch hasn't gone by when we don't discuss our
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