Punjab

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.   ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

After Napoleon’s defeat in Waterloo, many of the mercenaries left for Persia and India to test their fortunes. General Avitabile was one of them. Born in 1791 at Agerola, Italy, ...

After Napoleon lost Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and was sent packing to Saint Helena, his army of mercenaries was in disarray. Though Napoleon had lost the war, it did ...

Growing up in eighties near Mianwali where my father was posted at one of the few nuclear energy plants of Pakistan, the days were hot and the nights were quiet. ...

Crossing Margalla Pass on Grand Trunk road near Islamabad in Pakistan, you cannot miss a tall magnificent obelisk right at the Margalla Pass, the Nicholson Monument. The monument reminds us ...

The year was 1914, the location was Ypres in Belgium and the occasion was World War I. Germans was pushing into Europe with their blitzkrieg and the whole Europe and ...

Long ago, not so very long ago, Googaira was the District Head quarters of a District comprising Sahiwal, Okara and Pakpattan. All of these towns are now Districts on their ...

Having failed a number of times in finding Charehan forest rest house near Lower Topa, my friend and forester turned civil servant Rizwan Mahboob offered to help and one fine ...

One fine morning in late November, I found myself standing on the shores of river Indus at Kalabagh. I was staying at a Government rest house along with a few ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recommended. Omar Mukhtar Khan is guided from pillars to chambers, from one storey to another in Khewra, where he absorbs all he is told about the salt excavation method Khewra ...

THE Salt Range in northern Punjab is a sort of natural barrier between northern and central Punjab. Although more people know about Salt Range because of its salt mines at ...

By Omar Mukhtar Khan FOR most of us a trip to Murree means a nice walk in the clouds around Governor’s House and Kashmir Point; a joy-ride on the chair ...

If you ask me the best thing about living is Islamabad, it would be the abundant opportunities for shot day trips that one can have while living in Islamabad. Some ...