S.A.J. Shirazi There were many things on my schedule when I travelled from Multan to Quetta by road instead of rail: to see the tomb of Ghazi Khan, to visit famous Fort Monro and familiarize myself with this less travelled route to Quetta. The photo above shows the entrance of a Government High School in […]
Owais Mughal The first railway line was laid in the in the areas that now comprise Pakistan in the year 1858 in Karachi. Following is the story of this historical event as well as the construction of first railway section of Pakistan which was opened between Karachi City and Kotri in 1861. Following photo is […]
S.A.J. Shirazi Traveling on Grand Trunk Road all my life, it captured my imagination as a cultural curiosity when I read Rudyard Kipling’s Kim. At the beginning of the last century Kipling called it: “a wonderful spectacle…. without crowding…. green-arched, shade-flecked … a river of life.†But Pakistan’s National Highway Number 5 (N5), alias the […]
