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I took this picture at sundown in my favourite park in Pakistan’s capital metropolis earlier this month. I went there to the touch grass, actually, after days of overlaying inconclusive U.S.-Iran peace talks.
This place is known as Haunted Hill Park, colloquially at the least, although I’ve by no means heard a definitive rationalization for why. I prefer it as a result of it is normally not too crowded and has good grass for laying down a picnic blanket. On this specific night, a duo volleyed a badminton shuttlecock backwards and forwards, and ladies took images in entrance of colourful flowerbeds. The park sits alongside a winding, tree-lined avenue, and when you flip proper out of the park and drive till the highway ends, you are inside strolling distance of the Serena Resort, the place the peace talks have been held.
Some would possibly say this bureaucratic hub is boring. I assumed that too once I first moved to Pakistan. Then I spent just a few years dwelling in Lahore, a boisterous megacity the place pockets of calm are arduous to come back by. The soothing inexperienced Margalla Hills round Islamabad introduced me peace I did not know I wanted.
As journalists converged right here to cowl the talks, the world caught a glimpse of this metropolis — principally broadcast from inside a stuffy media middle. I want folks might see it from this vantage level as an alternative.
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