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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 protecting inconclusive U.S.-Iran peace talks.
This place is known as Haunted Hill Park, colloquially at the very least, although I’ve by no means heard a definitive clarification for why. I prefer it as a result of it is often not too crowded and has good grass for laying down a picnic blanket. On this explicit night, a duo volleyed a badminton shuttlecock backwards and forwards, and ladies took pictures in entrance of colourful flowerbeds. The park sits alongside a winding, tree-lined avenue, and should you flip proper out of the park and drive till the street ends, you are inside strolling distance of the Serena Lodge, the place the peace talks had been held.
Some would possibly say this bureaucratic hub is boring. I believed that too once I first moved to Pakistan. Then I spent a number of years dwelling in Lahore, a boisterous megacity the place pockets of calm are laborious 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 heart. I want folks may see it from this vantage level as an alternative.
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