bars/pubs in Lahore

There are none. No actually, there are AFAIK 3 places where you can get served, Royal Palm, PC Hotel and the Intenational Club. RP is the priciest, but it's got a nice setting (at the golfer's terrace, and has imported booze (Fosters, Heineken, Carlsberg, Black Label, Chivas). Don't expect anything fancier as the stuff they sell depends on what they can bring in.

The international club is much cheaper and they sell the same stuff as RP plus they have the plus point of getting supplies from the American Embassy commiss. Monthly dues are 50 bucks and joining I think is 500 (refundable) so it's not too bad really.

PC hotel recently converted one of the rroms into a bar on the second floor, but they only sreve local stuff. Pakistan has a brewery (Murree) which stamps "for export" on all their products but I don't know who on earth they would export to. They have primarily the Murree beer, whisky (both blended and single malt) and Vodka.

Only the vodka is drinkable (if desperate). The beer tastes like cat's piss and after 4 I guarantee you will get a massive headache due to the glycerine content. According to Geoff Lawson (ex Pak cricket coach, uneremoniously dumped but that's a story for another day) during the good old days when they first toured Pakistan you could see the 2 inches of glycerine floating on top of the bottle, but Aussies being Aussies. they still drank it.

The whisky tastes like kerosene and you could probably start a fire with it's fumes and the only taste you can ascertain is the vanilla in it.