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That was precisely what was done in Lahore and Amritsar last year by the citizens by means of volunteers when the Military and the police had withdrawn.

February, Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee had traveled to Lahore, Pakistan, to promote bilateral talks aimed at resolving the Kashmir problem and other differences.

The rubbery smell of Akron, sister city of Lahore, Pakistan, lay like the flameout of all our hopes over the plateau that evening.

The march proceeded by way of Kalka, the last station on the railway to Simla, without any incidents, as far as Lahore.

Units in the Punjab, opposite Lahore and Sahiwal, were still bogged down at the border.

Visits to dealers in Dubai, to warehouses in Lahore, to Turkish weaving areas.

Baroda, Rawal-Pindi, Lucknow, Lahore, Cawnpore, Allahabad, Calcutta, Madras--oh, everywhere.

So does the stone Bodhisat sit who looks down upon the patent self-registering turnstiles of the Lahore Museum.

Utter it anywhere within the bounds of Lahore Fort - dropped into conversation, or shouted from the housetops if need be - and the odds are there'll be those who'll pass it, and a friend will come to you, Ye follow?

They laid siege to a town called Multan, which is located about 175 miles southwest of Lahore, on one of the chief tributaries of the Indus.

I had a poshteen in my valise, and had gathered a few odds and ends since coming to Lahore - Persian boots, pyjamys and sash for lounging on the hotter days, and the like.

All I could do was show willing, for my precious credit's sake, so I asked him who the friends and enemies in Lahore were likely to be.

So there we were, cocked and ready to fire, and beyond the river, although we didn't know it, little Dalip's throne was shaking, for it was touch and go whether the Khalsa, raging in defeat and convinced they'd been betrayed, would fight us or march on Lahore to slake their fury on Jeendan and the durbar.

But when they loitered here they could watch caravans coming in from Lahore, Kabul, Kandahar, Agra, and places even farther distant: Chinamen who had brought their silks down from Kashgar over the wastes of Leh, and Armenians who had sallied far to the east from their ghetto in Isfahan, and Turkomans from Bokhara, looking like poorer and shorter versions of the mighty Turks who held sway over Algiers.

But the well-intended partition imposed when the Raj withdrew caused tensions from the beginning, tensions that resulted in the terrible destruction of Lahore.