Introducing small cities located along the National Highway Network of Pakistan has remained a favourite topic at ATP. While most people knows a good deal about larger cities, the smaller ones get neglected and through these pages we try to highlight their points to possible fame. Our regular readers may remember our travels across highways N5 and N65. Today we are starting our journey on the second longest highway of Pakistan. It is famously called the Indus Highway because for most part of its length, this highway runs next to the river Indus. In National Highway Authroity (NHA)’s designation, Indus Highway is called N55. Its zero point is the city of Hyderabad in Sindh and its last point is the city of Peshawar in NWFP. The total length of this highway is 1265 kilometers. Today we’ll start our journey from Hyderabad and travel for 378km to the city of Shikarpur. Our route for today is designated in Yellow color in the map to the right-above.
Among many things that Pakistan has been blessed with, the quality of fruit is an important one. Especially worth mentioning is the Pakistani pomegranate. It is hard to find a rival of it in size, flavor and color. I’ve collected few photos of pomegranates and its juice for sale in Pakistan here. Take a look and be a part of this famous urdu idiom: ‘ek anaar, sau beemaar’ (one pomegranate can make a hundred people devoted to it)
Adil Najam
Many of you might have recently received this picture of rickshaw poetry in your email recently. It depicts rickshaw poetry under the title “Soch Raha Hai Pakistan.” Its cute. All the more because it is on the back of a rickshaw. And we all love rickshaws. No one more than ATP.
This is why we have featured rickshaws here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. And probably elsewhere too!
That is also why this particular pictures intrigued us much more than just because of what is written at the back of the rickshaw. For some reason, it looked very very familiar. And, yet, different.
