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PIA flight 786 landed in Jeddah Airport at 9:30 AM local time.

We, two brothers and three sisters, were following Ammi huzoor towards the exit where Abbu was waiting.

I saw a lightful face with a dark black and thick beard on it and with that a usual smile decorating the beauty of that very face. Wearing his usual Jinnah Cap on his head and his regular shalwaar qameez attire, Abbu was waving at us. The emotions of...

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I forgot to mention that two of my elder sisters had already gone to Madinah with the Uncle's family who'd left a month earlier.

Now, our mini bus was runnig on Shahrah-e-Faisal towards Karachi International Airport.

Back then, there was no Jinnah Terminal and it was not Quaid-e-Azam International airport either but rather Karachi International airport.

Normally, Terminal # 3 was used for International flights...

[My Old Travelogue about the days of the golden period of my life. I will be updating my blog with these old entries time to time
These entries were written on-the-fly on day to day basis after recollecting the memories of that time...]

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Somewhere in mid 80's when I was hardly in class 1, Abbu got a job in Madinah Munawwarah in some company name Al Mohandis which in Arabic means "The Engineer" .. Abbu is a civil engineer....

A thought process I went under on June 16, 2008

As I prayed Faj'r a while back, I found myself in the feet of Allah Jallah Shaanahu... I feared from HIM..

But then after supplications, I started pondering about it - reflected upon my thoughts of being feared from Allah...

Do we really fear HIM? This fear is not a fear of being afraid but a fear with someone who is so dear to you that you do not want to do something which he or she does not admire...
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