You KNOW You are FROM ISLAMABAD when...

• life revolves around sectors, and that too in alphabetical ones
• anything beyond 2 kilometres feels like space travel (to Mars?)
• you want to befriend any foreign embassy crew - and I literally mean any embassy, and err anyone employed by it, would do - as long as they look 'foreign' you've hit the jackpot. 
• you either walk in F-9 park or do 'trail' bit - because if you don't you're so not with it.
• you must shop at koshar market and eat there too - and must be seen doing both.
• Pindi is too desi for you.
• You pretend to be cosmopolitan like karachites but can't quite shake off the provincial vibe.
• when grades of government officers mean more than grades of your own children.
• you try to be 'modern' - by wearing jeans.
• you know in your heart of hearts that you're just not cool enough.