Noor Naghmi, a Pakistani-American entrepreneur from Lahore, has crossed the first hurdle in making his dream of building another Lahore in rural Virginia come true.
Naghmi, son of well-known Radio Pakistan, Lahore, broadcaster Abul Hasan Naghmi, who was Bhaijan to millions of children against Mohni Hamid's Aapa Shamim, has bought all 235 acres of the tiny hamlet of Lahore in Orange County, Virginia, an hour's drive from Washington's Fairfax county where he lives and finances mortgages and related deals. Lahore, Virginia, is not new, having come into existence in late 19th century. The name was picked out randomly from a book on India. The place where only a few families live and whose only general store is now closed, came to attention when Pakistani journalist and Voice of America broadcaster Akmal Aleemi, driving with a few friends in the countryside came across a sign on the road that said 'Lahore'. He stopped, explored the place, talked to its few residents and wrote a feature article on his "discovery" in a Lahore, Pakistan, newspaper. That was when young Noor first became aware of the existence of another Lahore, different from the one where he was born and from where he immigrated with his family to America in the 1970s.
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