by Omar Mukhtar Khan Taking advantage of long Eid break, I along with a couple of friends decided to explore the ancient Deepalpur fort about a couple of hours drive from Lahore. We arrived in Deepalpur well in time and started inquiring about the Deepalpur fort and to our amazement nobody had a clue to …
By Omar Mukhtar Khan Chillianwala is not a new name for any serious student of colonial history in India. Taking the westward road from Kharian, one crosses the small town of Dinga to reach the obscure village of Chillianwala in about half an hour. Just on the road side on a small mound is a …
By Omar Mukhtar Khan THATTA, one of the most famous cities of Sindh, is mentioned as a flourishing city as far back as 1351 A.D. From the fourteenth century onwards it was the chief centre around which the history of lower Sindh developed, and up to 1739 Thatta witnessed the successive rise and fall of …
Few people here would be able to tell where on earth is Ooghi, even fewer may have visited this untouched paradise on earth. Situated in Hazara, Ooghi is a small beautiful subdivision of Mansehra District. As one travels from Abbottabad to Batgram, at Mansehra a small road turns left leading to Ooghi. For about half …
By Omar Mukhtar Khan DIPPED in beauty with its swaying lush green forests, snow-capped mountains, gushing steams and the indigo blue Neelum river, the Neelum Valley is the most famous and scenic valley of Azad Kashmir. Located to the north of Muzaffarabad, this wonderland is stretched over 200 kilometres in the form of a …
Saturday, April 19, 2008 The year was 1870 and the venue was Durkut in Yasin valley. George Hayward, a geologist from Royal Geological Society of London kept sitting in his tent the whole night with a pistol in his hand and a rifle lying across the table suspecting some mischief on the part of Mir …
By Omar Mukhtar Khan FEW people in Pakistan know about the scenic valley of Soan-Sakesar and still fewer know that the valley boasts of at least five scenic and beautiful lakes. But this lack of knowledge is limited to us, the Pakistanis only, as the World Wildlife Fund has already acknowledged the importance of the …
People can compete with us in textile and carpet manufacturing but no country in the world boasts three mightiest ranges, Hindukush, Karakorum and Himalaya all at one point By Omar Mukhtar Khan One often hears about Gilgit, Hunza and Khunjerab in the northern areas of Pakistan but the mention of probably much more scenic Ghizer …
By Omar Mukhtar Khan Standing under the scorching sun and drinking chilled water, my friends were staring at me with certain disdain. We had just arrived in Chilas after a five hours drive from Bisham which is an ideal midway break for all those travelling from Islamabad to Gilgit. Our destination was actually the famous …
Along the dangerous border with India, lies the heavenly village of Leepa. But getting here is nothingless than an adventure When we talk of Leepa Valley, news of Indian shelling and dislocation of the local Kashmiri population comes to mind. But there is another side of the picture and that is the scenic Leepa Valley, …
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