Bhera has a long history — and a lot to offer.Omar Mukhtar KhanUpdated about 18 hours ago The first time I heard of Bhera was when a friend of my father’s brought pheonian, a kind of vermicelli, to our house claiming these to be the best in the subcontinent. For a long time, Bhera for us was …
As Pakistanis earn and travel more, it is time to see local tourism as a serious avenue for growth. The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government has promised to give the nation four new tourist resorts in its first 100 days. To help the Punjab government and its tourism department, I set out to explore three resorts across the …
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Clueless in the abandoned centuries-old city of Tulaja in Soon Valley Tulaja is like a dream, it is mysterious, abandoned and few people know about it. Go explore it. I take pride in knowing Soon Valley like the back of my hand. So when Saad, the young, bright analyst in our office mentioned the abandoned …
I spent my childhood at Chashma Barrage where my father was posted with Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission. During vacations, we would travel to Islamabad or Lahore to meet family and friends and to see the lights so to speak. Those were the days when midway restaurants or service areas were still inconceivable and I would …
Back on the main road and in another thirty minutes, you shall reach the vicinity of Patriata. Now take the road to the top of the Patriata hill and after some fifteen minutes of winding roads and amazing views, you would reach the Patriata top where the famed cable car from down below finally ends. …
Besides building magnificent official and residential mansions in Rawalpindi, Lahore or Karachi, British left their foot print almost in every town they went to like Murree, Nathiagali, Multan, Sahiwal etc. British would ensure that their officials ‘Sahibs’ are properly cared for when they are on inspection visits touring the country. Hence they started constructing ‘Dak’ …
In 1967, a wedding procession landed in Gilgit by the regular Fokker plane and proceeded to Karimabad in Hunza on the precarious jeep track along Hunza river. The procession travelled hours and hours on hair raising track with the wedding party over awed all the way by the dominating snow covered Rakaposhi peak. The procession …
Nestled among the green shrubby mountains and an hour’s drive from Islamabad is the small sleepy and peaceful town of Attock. When a new District was carved out of Rawalpindi and Jehlum in 1904, the District was renamed Campbellpore only to be Islamized in 1978 back to the original name that was Attock. Sir Colin …
Almost a decade back, I heard a friend talking about a British era cannon in a village near Chakwal, awarded to a soldier of first world war. The story always fascinated me and I longed to see the artifact myself one day. A couple of months back, while reading ‘The Salt range and Potohar Plateau’ …
On 22nd March, 1925, there was a lot of commotion in the rural dusty town of Renala Khurd some hundred kilometers south of Lahore. Governor Punjab, Sir William Malcolm Hailey, ICS, was scheduled to arrive in the town to inaugurate 1.1 Megawatt Ganga Power House built over a branch of Lower Bari Doab Canal. The …
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