{Attendee-Recap} - First Ever Indo-Pak Virtual Meetup

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It’s always better to be late then never :grinning:

It’s been a few days since I attended this unique virtual 1st Indo-Pak Meetup between Local Guides community of India :india: and Pakistan :pakistan:

Since then I was trying to spare a few minutes to write-up the recap and give some gratitude to the organizers @AmbrishVarshney and @KashifMisidia

Why Virtual Meetup: World is under lock down and self isolation due to COVID-19 breakout, so it was a great initiative to avail the benefit of technology and get in touch through a virtual meetup. Advantage is everyone can join despite of limitation of borders and traveling.

Hosts: @AmbrishVarshney was hosting it from Indian side while @KashifMisidia co-hosted from Pakistan side. When received invitation from @KashifMisidia in our Whatsapp group, the idea was so nice that I committed to attend and it turned out to be a good decision :blush:

There were 50+ Local Guides in the meetup from across :india: and :pakistan: and everyone was so exited to know about each other. Before everyone joined the conference call, there were some general discussion about how life is going on during lock down and self isolation. Surprisingly, Indian community were curious to know about food specialties of major cities of Pakistan, whereas Pakistanis were excited to know about traditional food of Indian region.

A few popular Local Guides among others were:

@TravellerG, @StephenAbraham, @NareshDarji, @khawajamazhar, @Tejal,

@Muhammad_Usman, @MSulaiman,@azharmasood786

@jehanzebkayani, @Lovenish_Gaur Karthik Jaganathan, Natish Bhatt, Aslam Mohammad,

Special credits to attendees who took screenshots and shared with us

@thehmsofficial @KashifMisidia @MSulaiman and others :+1:

Last but not the least, thanks to our honorable female attendees @NitaBC @Tejal , Shahida Qaiser and Rasheeka Sharma

Take Away of Meetup: Indian and Pakistani community has a long term relationship and share a lot of things regarding their languages, culture, food and generations old link to places across borders. There were discussion regarding having a physical meetup once the lock-down is over, one idea was to have meetup at Kartarpur Sahib where Indian and Pakistanis can meet without Visa restrictions.

India has already hosted Asia-One meetup and it was also discussed to have another similar event probably at Nepal :nepal: because it is easier for both nations to get visa and visit there.

Sorry, if I couldn’t tag and mention everyone but you all are special to me and I wish to meet you again soon.

Stay home and Stay safe! :pray:

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@Sarbland indeed, it is better to be late than never. Yes, we should have another Asia two meet-up. It will be fun and fruitful especially for the local guides community. HALA to your write-up.

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Staying home is safe and it also opens new opportunities so let’s join hands together towards this virtual meetup.

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Thank you dear @MSulaiman . Yes we’ll definitely work on AsiaOne meetup. :+1:

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Yes dear @AkhlaqSipra is also need of the time. :blush:

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Stay safe and we should see opportunities regarding business and how to help others. Thank you all for imitating such idea.

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Thank you dear Abbad. Appreciate your words.

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Namaskar…

** @Sarbland **

miss to attend…

Thanks for Sharing…

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Thank you @Sarbland for adding me in your fantastic recap, yes indeed it was a great time , with lot of knowledge along with lot of fun.

Thanks for joining us and writing recap. And special thanks to @TravellerG sir , @AmbrishVarshney Bhai and @NareshDarji Bhai , who made it happen.

Shukriya :pray:

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It was nice virtual meetup with all of you @Sarbland

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@NareshDarji yes sir indeed. :+1:

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@KashifMisidia I appreciate your efforts to keep localguide community of Pakistan intact. :+1:

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@Shrut19 surely see you in another meetup. I would suggest to senior members to work on another AsiaOne after COVID-19 breakout. :pray:

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That’s a great idea will join the next meetup and already excited to meet people from other side of border

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Hello dear friends @MSulaiman & @Sarbland

We shall surely try our best for Asia-2, once the environment improves.

Regards to you all…

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Hello dear @KashifMisidia JI…
Yes, the efforts by our joint team were excellent & appreciate the same…

Our special regards to @Sarbland for bringing out this “[Attendee RECAP]” (this goes for better attention from Moderators - this is my experience).

Congratulations…

With regards

PS:

Let us remind all LGS that the Title (WORD {RECAP} or [RECAP]) is reserved for only the LG who HOSTS & CO-HOSTS a Meetup.
Moderators have responded to this point many times.

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Yes @Matloob , I’ll forward you if there’s any invite. It was great knowledge sharing session.

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@TravellerG , thank you so for keep us motivating. You’ll surely find me in of there’s any AsiaOne 2nd meetup. I’ll keep you guys pushing for it :blush:

I was unaware of the recap protocol. I’ll surely keep this in mind for next writeups. Thank you for guidance and suggestions to improve things. :+1:

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@Sarbland thanks!

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Welcome… Always with you all…

Most sincerely, @Sarbland

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