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Cadet College Hasan Abdal June 22, 2006

First visit after 28 years!

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Waqar and me with Mr. Dilshad Hussain, Principal
Dilshad Saheb will be retiring soon.

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College Masjid

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At the Oval

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By the honour rolls

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We remember giving speaches and taking our Board exams here ...

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Anderson Hall is now Ayub Block...

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Waqar and me in front of Haider Wing

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I did the art work on this poster 28 years ago.  It is still hanging in Iqbal Wing!!!

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Below is another poster that I did some 28 years ago for the Calligraphy Competition and is still hanging in Iqbal Wing.   This one is really special.  I did much of the artwork (Iqbal's portrait and the black-and-white sketches).  My dear friend Ahmed Bilal Asghar (May Allah grant him Jannah) wrote the articles with Pervez Ahmed Khan (our Wing Commander then) and I believe Shehzad Kundi did the calligraphy.  I also believe we placed first!

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Can you make out our names?  Parvez Ahmed Khan, Adeel Najmi, Shehzad Hamid Kundi, Ahmed Bilal Asghar...

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This used to by closet in Matric (10th grade).  I shared this room with Khalid Anwar, Ahmed Bilal Asghar and Amer Mohammed Khan

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Waqar and me, in the balcony by my room.  The Wing Flag hangs from outside this balcony.  It was our job to raise it at revellie and lower it at sunset with the call of the bugle

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Another view on the baclony

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The Open Air Theatre.  We saw many movies here.  On my first night in the College, we tried out for a Qiraat contest here.   This was the first college landmark I got to know...

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The swimming pool.  I think it needs a whitewash and chlorine :-)

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Inside the Dining Halls

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I can see myself sitting in this chair with the infamous "Chursee", the barber giving us a crew cut

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The College Hospital

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Tank by the front gate

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Anti-aircraft gun by the front gate

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Me and Shehzad Kundi

 

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