Islamabad Marriott

... Marriott Hotel being blown up, this was one of the only places in the city you could get alcohol) When in Islamabad I went straight to the embassy. The embassy was for Afghanistan...yes Afghanistan. Being so close, much as with Kazakhstan ...

The bombing of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad occurred whilst we were in Iran and immediately our otherwise innocent perceptions of Pakistan's capital warped into visions of a dark, dangerous and lawless city that was best avoided. It's slightly ...

... Westerners discussing business. The huge extent of the squalor in Rawalpindi compared to the three streets of excessive wealth found in Islamabad was striking. Something like 80-90% of the two cities wealth concentrated in such a small area. Horrible. The ...

... a car bomb attack on the Danish Embassy in Islamabad in June 2008. Other attacks include a suicide attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad in January 2007, an attempted bomb attack on Islamabad International Airport in February 2007, and an explosion ...

... for children in Pakistan.  I was at the part where he is meeting with officials (including the Taliban) at the Marriot Hotel in Islamabad when suddenly I look up at the television screen and there is the EXACT same Marriot hotel in Islamabad up in ...

... 't been there a few days before. A few weeks after returning to the UK BBC reported that another bomb went off in the Marriott in Islamabad, where we were in meetings for two days, seven were injured: ...

... Fact Bungy Jumping was made famous by Kiwi AJ Hackett's dive from the Eiffel Tower in 1986. P.P.S. btw, in dem Marriot in Islamabad hatte ich in dem (total zerstoerten zur Strasse gelegenen) Restaurant auch schon einmal ein Lunch Buffet (ich hatte ...

... was showing BBC World with the sound down, but it was enough to establish that a suicide bomber had targeted the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad – at least 40 people dead. Unfortunately the world has turned into an ugly and dangerous place. Istanbul ...