One could perhaps be forgiven for thinking that a off road trip to set up a medical camp for the villagers of Pakistan would be a mixture of mosquitoes, no running water and intense heat. THINK AGAIN !!!. As an Angraise, I found the whole experience to be both, humbling and exciting. The whole journey […]
August 1, 2011
Khorwah Medical Camp
Photographs from offroadpakistan’s medical camp in the village of Khorwah, district Badin in Sindh. The group included doctors, veterinarians and volunteers from Karachi who were selfless in their efforts to give back to a community. Hand pumps were also distributed. Photos courtesy afewmofilms.com. Click here for the photo gallery. Writeups of the camp are incoming: Psychosocial […]
June 13, 2011
Jay Shah’s pilgramage to Mata Hinglaj
A few years ago, longer than I’d like to think about now, we met Jay Shah, who had come to Pakistan to visit Mata Hinglaj. Our offroad club took him to Hingol, and it was the start of a wonderful friendship. Jay wrote a wonderful writeup of his visit to Pakistan and his travels with the […]
May 16, 2011
Hummer H1 being produced in China
Ever since GM folded the Hummer brand, the global offroad community was in dismay. No more civilian H1′s, H2′s or H3′s! But now there is a ray of hope from Chinese auto producer Dongfeng. They have been producing a military hummer, called the EQ2050 (or Hanma). Initially they were even supported by AMC, but not […]
August 26, 2010
Help OffroadPakistan’s Flood Relief
OffroadPakistan and friends have put together an effort to help people effected by the floods in Pakistan. We are providing relief ourselves (delivery and distribution) in Sindh area. Right now it’s food and essentials and temporary shelter. Next we would support run a refugee camp (our choosing of location) providing food, water, medicines/medical camps, clothing […]
August 26, 2010
CNN on 4×4 Offroaders Club Karachi’s Flood Relief Efforts
Holly Yan of CNN caught up with our 2nd relief trip on August 24th and spoke with Offroaders Awab Alvi and Faisal Kapadia: (CNN)—“Everywhere we go we see eight to 10 feet of water,” said Kapadia, who traveled through inundated villages between Shikarpur and Sukkur. “All we see are the tops of houses.” Just a […]
August 17, 2010
Pakistan Flooding 2010: link blog
So far at least 1,500 killed, 14-20 million affected, 3.5 million children at health risk, nearly 1 million houses damaged, and $1-2 billion upwards of crop damage. Possibly the low numbers of people killed has resulted in the lackluster international response. A timeline is here. Most comprehensive source for information is ReliefWeb’s Pakistan Floods page. […]
August 16, 2010
Flood Relief
The earthquake’s that have hit Pakistan in 2005 and 2008 were regarded as the worst tragedy for the nation. Few have realized that the recent floods have in fact caused more damage then those earthquakes did. As per latest reports official figures stand at 1600 dead and 20 million left homeless. The Monsoon rains began […]
March 19, 2010
Off-roading to Hingol
I stood there amongst the trees, the wind moving through the leaves, making a whistling sound. The entire campsite was bathed in bright moonlight, so bright that you did not need a torch to cook something. Before me, the Hingol River flowed along lazily between the mountains, a silver serpent in a landscape that is […]
March 3, 2010
Expedition Poldat: The Laidback Show
In Eposide 17 of the Laidback Show, Dr. Awab Alvi and Faisal Kapadia head towards Hingol National Park for a three day Expedition with offroaders from OffroadPakistan to conquer a natural gorge called Poldat in the Hingol National Park.
November 3, 2008
The ultimate offroad camping list
There are camping lists, and then there are camping lists. This is one of those. There is the minimalistic school of thought which believes in grabbing just a shotgun and a wallet and heading off into the bush – but if like us, you get off the city to take a break and enjoy, than […]
July 2, 2008
Concordia: The world’s greatest museum of shape and form
“The world’s greatest museum of shape and form” is how Italian mountaineer/author Fosco Maraini described Concordia in his book, Karakoram. Galen Rowell called it the “Throne of the Mountain Gods”. Come 2007, somehow or the other, 5 of us from Karachi ended up hiking to Concordia, and on to K2 base camp. Click here to […]
May 4, 2008
The end – back to reality
It felt strange to be back indoors, sleeping on a bed under a roof, with a bathroom attached right next to it!
May 4, 2008
Day 16: Jhola to Askole, and back to Skardu
Left Jhola just before 7am, arrive Askole at 1:45pm. After so many days of walking had finally toughened up, and me and Khiz made it to Askole before our porters, despite our many breaks along the way.
May 4, 2008
Day 15: Paiju to Jhola
At the tail end of the hike now, it finally sunk in that we had done it – made it to Concordia, and were now soon approaching the end of the hike…
May 4, 2008
Day 14: Khoburtse to Paiju
14/7/07: This was another long walk -we left 7:45am from Khoburtse, and arrived 3pm at Paiju.
May 4, 2008
Day 13: Bianga to Khoburtse
Left 8:15 am, arrived 12:30 at Urdukas. Stopped at the army camp below Urdukas – it was raining, and they kindly invited us in for tea and pakoras. Took as 4 hours 15 minutes to Urdukas from Goro I, and we spent about an hour their waiting the rain out. It rained hard for a […]
May 4, 2008
Day 12: Concordia to Bianga
We had decided to head straight to Goro I / Bianga, and so planned to leave early in the morning – which didn’t happen, as usual! 8:15 am and the tent is finally coming down, and we left at 8:30.
May 4, 2008
Day 11: Broad Peak to K2 Base Camp and back to Concordia
This was a long day, so we set off decently early in the morning, before 7 towards K2 basecamp. The day dawn bright and clear, the sky stunningly blue and visibility went on forever.
May 4, 2008
Day 10: Concordia to Broad Peak Base Camp
Concordia has the best views of the entire trek – I got up in the morning and just looked around for a while – finally understanding why it’s called the “throne of the mountain gods”. It is spectacular beyond words, and pictures don’t do it justice. Don’t take my word for it, go there and […]
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Jeeps in Pakistan
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The Red Car – First Pakistani Car
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Gorakh Hill Station
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Khorwah Medical Camp, Views of Shakiba Shelley
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Jay Shah’s pilgramage to Mata Hinglaj
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Hummer H1 being produced in China
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Help OffroadPakistan’s Flood Relief
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August 5, 2011
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