Owais Mughal Today’s post is dedicated to the Meter Gauge Railway located in Sindh province of Pakistan, which in its hey-day, had a network of 517 kilometers of track. Today 325 km of meter gauge track, a few locomotives and some workable coaches still remain; but it is just a matter of time before this […]
Mast Qalandar I must have passed by this place countless times on my way to Abbottabad and back, and was always intrigued by its name. Khota Qabar! Donkey’s grave, that is. Why, I wondered, so much reverence for a dead donkey? Khota Qabar lies on the Karakoram Highway, about 60 miles north of Islamabad and […]
Owais Mughal In the past we’ve had posts of Pakistani print advertisements from 1960s and 1950s. Today we’ll go another decade backwards in our continued travel of Nostalgistan in Pakistan. Few days ago a good friend of mine forwarded me an email which turned out to be a very nostalgic collection of Pakistani print ads […]
