Owais Mughal Clicking on most of the photos in this article will take you to their source websites and larger image sizes. On my recent trip to Pakistan, I tried to re-live some of the fondest memories of my early youth. One of them was daily travel in public buses during my college days. In […]
Mast Qalandar Most Pakistanis know Hasan Abdal as a town that houses the well-known Cadet College, the first to be built in Pakistan in the early 1950s. Other than that, Hasan Abdal hardly arouses any interest among Pakistanis. It is a non-descript dusty little town, 25 miles from Islamabad, situated along the National Highway, almost […]
Pervaiz Munir Alvi Attock District in Punjab, Pakistan, is a place of great historic significance. Alexander the Great of Macedonia passed through it as did the first Mughal, Babar, and the various Afghan Sultans before him. Emperor Akbar the Great, the grandson of Babar, recognizing the strategic importance of this area in 1581 built his […]
