Guest Post: Adventures up the Silk Road

Posted on July 11, 2006
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By S A J Shirazi The souls that pave the way for the modern tarmac road known as the Karakorum Highway (KKH) still seem to flicker amongst the sharp moving shadows of the unstable rocks and the almost countless but crumbly semi-transparent glaciers that constantly threaten its existence. There has always been a long pass […]

Kelash Culture of Alexander’s Descendants

Posted on July 5, 2006
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By S A J Shirazi Centuries old Kelash culture of Kafiristan (also sp. Kalash, Kailash) is at a greater risk today than any time in the past. Despite their remote location – landlocked in winters – last of the Kelash race is maintaining tenacious hold in district Chitral but is vulnerable to ravages of time […]

Guest Post: Travel to Pakistan

Posted on June 30, 2006
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By S A J Shirazi Traveling whirls you around, turns you upside down and stands everything you took for granted on its head. We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. […]

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