Islamabad

I was in Islamabad for the past five days trying to do some business development. In all honesty, I was little nervous about going to Pakistan, because it just seemed kind of creepy. I guess it’s the Daniel Pearl thing, and the fact that I have some idea that there are just a bunch of tribes living out in the Northwest Territory who seem weird.

The joke is that Islamabad is somewhere between 20 miles in 100 miles from Pakistan (the distance depends on the teller), and it is probably a valid observations since it was only built 40 years ago to be the capital, and it does not have the look or feel of any other Asian city I have been to. It is clean, there are nice-looking government buildings everywhere, and the place only holds about 700,000 people, so there is none of the intensity or chaos of a ‘normal’ Asian city in this region.