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Hours in Lahore, Pakistan. A popular travel column in the New York Times called “3.

Lijiang, China to New Haven, Connecticut. But never a city in Pakistan. I am certainly not the New York Times, but wanted to make an attempt to change this by sharing a glimpse of my visit. Saturday. 8am. Airplane. Teenagers.“Where are you from?”“America.”“You’re going to get blown up!”The exchange with the Pakistani teenager next to me does not begin well. Pakistan is best known in the West as the home of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban. It was quite high on the “I cannot believe you’re going there” list.

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Sensing the concern clouding my face, he breaks out into a wide grin.“Just kidding, man. You’re going to love it here. You Americans have totally the wrong image of Pakistan. Lahore is the party capital of Pakistan! Let me know if you want to go out tonight.”Turns out teenagers have the same sense of humor everywhere.

Party capital? Not words normally used to describe Pakistan, a “dry” country. Despite being technically illegal, it seemed alcohol might not be as taboo as one would think. Stereotypes begin to crumble. Mountains on approach to Lahore.

Lahore airport. Crowds fill the immigration hall. Random people strike up conversation. Westerners are a novelty. Strangers offer Urdu lessons. My brain moves sluggishly after 4.

The hospitality is appreciated. After breezing through immigration, a stocky, no- nonsense customs officer waves for a bag search. He barely glances at the large bag of malaria, cipro, and vitamin pills. My Clif bars, however, merit a thorough inspection. He tears one open and seems ready to have breakfast.

After a quick sniff, he smiles, puts everything back in the bag, and waves me onward. Crisis averted. 1. Garden city. The first thing that strikes you about Lahore is that everything is green. Willowing trees and lush grass line the streets. A comfortable breeze envelopes the city. The streets are quiet in my Cavalry Ground neighborhood.

While taking photos and daydreaming, I experience my most dangerous moment yet in Pakistan: almost being hit by an ice cream vendor. Time to wake- up. The mean green streets of Lahore. Caffeine and club sandwiches. Sensing my jetlag, my host, Lahore blogger Mohammad Momekh, takes me to Gloria Jean’s for coffee. It’s like a Starbucks in America, minus the hipsters.

Lunch is at Mohammad’s. Instead of a traditional Pakistani meal, his wife prepares club sandwiches and french fries. She considers it a proper meal for an American.

When I decline a Coke, her shock is palpable. You mean there are Americans who do not drink soda?!” Stereotypes can cut both ways. Selfies and stereotypes. We return to Gloria Jean’s to meet with a few local students, whose knowledge of world affairs is matched only by their eloquence. How do Pakistanis think Americans perceive them?“Americans think Pakistanis are uncivilized, very religious, gender segregated, terrorists who live in tents. Americans are friendly, but they have a very wrong image of us. They also eat a lot.”“The media drives this image.

They make everywhere in Pakistan seem unsafe. But most parts of the country are completely safe.”What worries you?“Getting blown up is the least of our problems. I stress about school, not bombs.”“The SAT test. Why did America invent it?!”“My FIFA skills. I will be practicing after this.”What about gender segregation?“In university, boys and girls hang out until 3am. This is normal.”“Most schools are equal between boys and girls. But in fields like engineering, it is difficult to be female.

As a girl, though, I can definitely have a career and be independent.”Gender equality might not be quite the same as in the West, but some issues are universal. Before leaving, the group suggests a group selfie for Snapchat. Both are popular. The Lahore Mc. Donald’s worldwide single- day sales record is also mentioned. Some things are perhaps better confined to America.

My first selfie. 7pm. Real food. One of the students invites us to visit his school, the Lahore University of Management Science. The campus would not have felt out of place in suburban America.

Footlongs at the campus Subway restaurant are popular although there is no Pakistani version of Jared. Round table discussion. Mohammad and his wife Haleema invite me for a proper Pakistani dinner. Meals are extended, family- oriented affairs. Cousins, brothers, children, and grandparents all drop by and say hello. Around midnight, bed finally calls.

Sunday. Playing tourist. No rest for the weary. A knock. “Time for breakfast!” I am still in a jetlagged stupor and  have no idea where I am. For just one moment, I wish Pakistanis were less hospitable. Noon. More lunches, more families. Today Ali, a friend of a friend from business school, his wife Mehreen, and three children are my hosts. The first stop is lunch with their extended families.

One relative seems startled. I was just reading about this American coming to Pakistan on Facebook… is that you?!”Small world. Two topics come up: Islam and women. A consensus view on Islam in Pakistan emerged, summed up by a quote from the father who teaches Koran classes: “Many teachers have distorted Islam. It is often no longer direct from the Koran.

Radical clerics have often changed Islam to suit their interests.”The topic of women in Pakistan stirs passions. A few themes emerged. Indignation on criticism. How many female American presidents are there? Because we already elected a female prime minister twice.”Discomfort with “role models”. Malala, the Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban, is viewed with respect.

However, many express concern that she is the only Pakistani that many Americans know. Cautious optimism. Many Pakistani women are entrepreneurs who run successful businesses. While some interpretations of Islam restrict women’s rights, a consensus emerged that the Koran teaches great respect for women.

Family lunch. 3pm. Well of death. Visit street carnival.

Witness coolest and scariest sight in Pakistan: mot ka kuan, or literally, the well of death. Two men drive old motorcycles along wall. Admission? 2. 5 cents. Border. Experience flag lowering ceremony between two hostile, nuclear- armed enemies at Wagah Border, only one of two land borders between Pakistan and India.

Both sides paradoxically thump their chests in perfect coordination. The soldiers ultimately shake hands and perform a synchronized lowering of flags. Flag lowering ceremony.

Old city. Food Street. Visit Lahore’s old city. Climb a minaret of the Wazir Khan mosque for stunning views.

Visit the historic Lahore Fort. Experience the Badshahi Mosque, the 5th largest in the world with a capacity of 1. Finally, dinner on Lahore’s infamous pedestrian- only Food Street. Cuckoo’s, a Lahore institution, is a fine choice. As is the company: a lawyer who fights for the rights of Pakistanis detained in Afghanistan, a gym tycoon, and an education guru and fitness coach. Laughter and merriment are guaranteed.

Dinner on Food Street. Post- dinner workout. Watch Tell No One Online Hitfix.

Just kidding. But we did swing by Reza’s gym to take a quick peek. He claims it gives Equinox a run for its money. The bottom line• Safety: Terrorist attacks have killed fewer than 2.

Lahore since 2. 01. The same number of homicides occur in Detroit every two weeks. Detroit’s murder rate is 7. X Lahore’s. Despite this, the US State Department advises against all non- essential travel to Pakistan. I personally never felt unsafe.• Stereotypes: Like most places, these are often derived from a small population and applied to a large one. In Pakistan, people seemed keenly aware of their stereotypes and felt passionate about correcting what they considered grave misperceptions.• Hospitality: Pakistani hospitality cannot be overstated.

The entire country went out of the way to welcome me. Within a week of sharing my plan to visit, hundreds of Pakistanis invited me to their homes and cities across the country. My biggest regret is having only a week- long visa. Pakistan welcomed me with open arms and hearts.

JFKfacts. 21 JFK cops who heard a grassy knoll shot. A cop runs toward the grassy knoll on November 2. Strange but true: At least two dozen, and perhaps as many as four dozen, of the witnesses to the assassination of President Kennedy in November 1. Warren Commission and most U. S. news organizations. Richard Charnin has proposed a statistical proof of a shot from the front. Another way to think about the matter is to review the eyewitness accounts, especially those of people with crime scene training.

Assessing earwitness testimony. Defenders of the U. S. government’s semi- official theory that the 3. Democrat, was shot from behind by a psychopathic leftist will dismiss the earwitness accounts. Earwitness testimony, say crime scene investigators, is notoriously unreliable. But not always. After all, it is well- documented that some earwitnesses of JFK’s assassination proved to have good hearing that day. Several dozen people reported hearing gunshots from above and behind the presidential motorcade.

Their perception was accurate. President Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally were both wounded in the back. The location of their wounds proved that Oswald (or someone else) was firing from above and behind had assaulted the motorcade. The earwitnesses in Dealey Plaza proved right. So what about the several dozen people who said a shot also came from in front of JFK’s car?

Were they mistaken? Or could they have been right too?

The issue is well documented. Stewart Galanor says 5. Richard Charnin says 8.

Even John Mc. Adams, a die- hard anti- conspiracy theorist, agrees that at least 3. Railroad worker S. M. Holland, who was watching from the Triple Underpass, says he heard a rifle report and saw smoke from behind the stockade face atop the grassy knoll. Watch Holland tell his story here.)The area was searched by police within minutes of JFK’s assassination. No gunman was found. Corroborating earwitness testimony. Law enforcement and criminal justice professionals agree that photographic evidence is more reliable than earwitness testimony.

What about the infamous home movie of the assassination made by Dallas dressmaker Abraham Zapruder. What does it tell us about the source of the shots? The film captures, in terrible detail, the six seconds in which the commander in chief lost his life.

The film shows Kennedy jolted forward when he was struck in the back by a bullet. A few seconds later, the film shows JFK head snapping backwards and to the left from the fatal shot. The Zapruder film lends credence to — some say corroborates — the earwitness testimony that the fatal shot came from the front and to the right. Among the earwitnesses to JFK’s murder were no less than 2. While earwitness testimony is unreliable, these 2.

All of them were within 1. JFK when the shots rang out. They were trained in the use of firearms and they were experienced in crime scene investigation. Most importantly, they were dispersed at various around the park- like area of Dealey Plaza, which means they would have heard different echo patterns, a frequent source of faulty earwitness testimony. What did these earwitnesses say about the origins of the gunshot killed JFK? Twenty one officers said their reaction to the gunfire was to go search the area famously known as “the grassy knoll.”The unanimity of their reaction is striking. On November 2. 2, after hearing gunfire near the presidential motorcade, they all converged on the parking lot and the railroad yard, lined by a stockade fence, on top of a grassy embankment overlooking the motorcade route.

The Warren Commission ignored all of this testimony, even from cops. The Warren Report said there was “no evidence” of a shot from the front. That is the sort of misleading statement that prompted a majority of Americans to mistrust the Warren Commission’s conclusions about the causes of JFK’s assassination. There was credible evidence, in the form of earwitness testimony, that JFK was killed by a shot from the front.

Here’s some of it. What 2. 1 cops said — and did — after JFK was shot. Secret Service man Paul E. Landis, Jr., was riding the rear right running board of the third car in the presidential motorcade. After JFK’s assassination, he wrote: My immediate thought was that the President could not possibly be alive after being hit like he was. I still am not certain from which direction the second shot came, but my reaction at the time was the shot came from somewhere towards the front right- hand side of the road.

Secret Service man Forrest Sorrels was riding in the lead car of the motorcade when he heard the shots. He said he “turned around to look up on this terrace part there, because the sound sounded like it came from the back and up in that direction.”Like many other witnesses Sorrells used the term “terrace” to refer to the area famously known as “the grassy knoll.” There is a monument structure in this part of Dealey Plaza overlooking the street where JFK’s motorcade was passing. Adjacent to the structure is a parking lot and a railroad yard separated by a line of trees. Sorrells repeated this observation to the Warren Commission.“And, as I said, the noise from the shots sounded like they may have come back up or the terrace there …But the reports seemed to be so loud that it sounded like to me – in other words, that my first thought, somebody up on the terrace, and that is the reason I looked there. Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry was driving the lead car in the motorcade.

In a deposition taken in April 1. Curry said: I heard a sharp report. We were near the railroad yards at this time, and I didn’t know – I didn’t know exactly where this report came from, whether it was above us or where, but this followed by two more reports (Warren Commission, Vol. XII, 2. 8). The week after this deposition, Curry was in Washington testifying at great length before the Commission – but he was not asked about where he thought the shots came. He did say where he ordered his men to search for the gunman. I said over the radio, I said: “Get someone up in the railroad yard and check.” (IV, 1.

After the shots rang out, Dallas police chief Jesse Curry ordered his men to search the railroad yard behind the grassy knoll. Curry’s memory, though not his language, is confirmed by the audio recording of Dallas Police Department’s radio communications that day. On recording Curry is heard to say, “Get a man on top of that triple underpass and see what happened up there.” He was referring to the area in front of JFK’s limousine. Deputy sheriff Eugene Boone ran towards the knoll and then the railroad yard as soon as he heard the shots (XIX, 5.

VII, 1. 05- 9). 5) Deputy constable Seymour Weitzman, like most of the other deputies, was standing at the corner of Main and Houston when he heard the shots. He ran toward the President’s car and climbed over a wall in “the monument section,” looking for the assassin (IV, 1. Roger Craig, too, on hearing the first shot, ran until he reached “the terrace on Elm Street” and then the railroad yards (XIX, 5. Harold Elkins was more explicit: I immediately ran to the area from which it sounded like the shots had been fired. This is an area between the railroad and the Texas School Book Depository which is east of the railroad. XIX, 5. 40)8) “Lummie” Lewis, 9) A.

D. Mc. Curley, 1. Luke Mooney, and 1. W. W. Mabra all heard the shots the same way and ran to search the grassy knoll and the freight yard.

XIX, 5. 26, 5. 14, 5. The shots sent Deputy Sheriff J. L. Oxford running toward the triple underpass (XIX, 5. L. C. Smith’s reaction to the shots was to climb the fence behind the grassy knoll and search the parking lot (XIX, 5. Deputy I. C. Todd ran to the railroad tracks, as did 1. Ralph Walters and radio officer 1. Jack Watson (XIX, 5.

Harry Weatherford told much the same story about when he heard the sound of gunfire. He knew what it was: (XIX, 5.