The Altar Of Culture ; While public protests mark Islamabad and Karachi, Lahore seems unaffected and immune, celebrating instead with a cultural extravaganza

From: India Today | Date: December 24, 2007| Author: Nirmala Ravindran | Copyright information

The Allama Iqbal International airport in Lahore is surprisingly calm, more so for the handful of Indians who have arrived on the weekly Delhi-Lahore Air-India flight. Hoping for some action or at least some visible sign that they have arrived in a country where Emergency has been imposed, it takes a couple of gun-totting security men to reassure the visiting tourists that everything is well in the country. Lahore is a surprise, and it starts at the airport--not because it's fancier or more h...

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