Umar Shah Clicking on photos in this article will take you to their high resolution and large size images. Nine hundred and forty eight years after Hijra, A great fort was built by a ruler, The emperor, the lion from whom the world flees, Whose good fortune is reflected in his grandeur These words, now […]

Owais Mughal The ‘Good’: A small news item appeared recently in Dawn which captured the imagination of quite a few people. The Central Development Working Party (CDWP), a constituent of Government of Pakistan, on September 17, 2008, approved 51 development projects and among them was also included the approval for Karachi Circular Railway. The ‘Bad’: […]

Owais Mughal Most of our readers may know that K2, the world’s second highest peak, is also called Mount Godwin-Austen. It is named after Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen (1834-1923) who was an Assistant on the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. He was the first one to survey the area in modern times (1860s). He wrote […]