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Islamabad Capital Area Dec 22-23, 2021 ISLAMABAD The capital city of Pakistan, ninth-largest city in Pakistan, and the Islamabad–Rawalpindi metropolitan area is the country’s fourth-largest with a population of about 3.1 million. Built as a planned city in the 1960s to replace Karachi as Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad is noted for its high standards of … Continue reading →

PUNJAB NORTH (Lahore, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad) Dec 21-28, 2021 The most populous and agriculturally fertile region in the country and home to many historical shrines and mosques Lahore – City of the Mughals, bustling and a very historical city that shouldn’t be missed. … Continue reading →

Executive function in AS exhibits characteristics of disinhibition and impulsivity, accompanied by a relative lack of insight into these behaviours. This can affect the cognitive control of emotions. There is a tendency to react to emotional cues without giving them … Continue reading →

THEORY OF MIND – “EMPATHY” ToM is the ability to recognize and understand the thoughts, beliefs, desires, and intentions of other people to make sense of their behaviour and predict what they are going to do next – i.e. “mind-reading” … Continue reading →

SOCIAL UNDERSTANDING and FRIENDSHIP The nature of these children is revealed most clearly in their behaviour towards other people. Their behaviour in the social group is the clearest sign of their disorder. – Hans Asperger (1944) SOLITUDE In solitude, the … Continue reading →

PUNJAB SOUTH (Multan, Bahawalpur, Khanewal) Dec 18,19, 2021 After Succur, we finally were on the major freeway on this side of Pakistan, a great 6-lane divided highway with virtually no traffic called the Sukkur-Multan Motorway. The major crop has become sugar … Continue reading →

PAKISTAN – Sindh other (Hyderbad, Sukkur) Dec 16, 17, 2021 After 7 days in Karachi, I was finally able to get an activated SIM card (Jazz for 7.5€ for 30 days and 15 GB), exchange cash (ATMS don’t work here), … Continue reading →

SINDH (Karachi, Greater Karachi) Dec 9-16, 2021 Sindh Province (Mehran locally) name “Sindh” is derived from the Indus River that passes almost through the middle of the entire province. Boundaries: Balochistan – west, Punjab – north, Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan … Continue reading →

A salt and batteries How Bolivian lithium could help fight climate change But the country with the world’s largest resources is still struggling to extract them Dec 8th 2021 ECONOMIST  The Salar de Uyuni, a salt flat in southern Bolivia, … Continue reading →

Pakistan is a large country (1.5 times the size of France) in South Asia at the crossroads of Central Asia, East Asia, and South Asia. Located along the Arabian Sea, it is surrounded by Afghanistan to the west and northwest, although Tajikistan is separated by the Wakhan Corridor, Iran to the southwest … Continue reading →