from the North-West Frontier of erstwhile British Empire, on the borders of tribal land, a story of a last stand, literally last man – last round
Category Archives: Scouting the Frontier
Sarwekai Fort
Memoirs from Thal, a travel across Waziristan, and the tales from The Frontier Scouts; a force d’élite…
The Fairy Face of Khade-Makh
A love story from the mountains of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa
penned in Urdu
A pilgrimage to Sajikot
A group with multi-provincial representation decides on chasing waterfalls
Tehkal Christian Cemetery
‘This Will Kill That’
Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, the North-West frontier of Pakistan, is a region of legendary romance on the pages of history, a significant chapter of which are the days of the Sub-Continent under British Raj. My stroll at the Tehkal Christian Cemetery was inspired by the urge to claim my share from the aura of Victorian romance at Peshawar.
Captain Karnal Sher
In The Lion’s Den
Captain Sher, with a handful of souls, heavily undersized in number and arms, moving uphill at the highest battlefield on earth, in broad daylight launched a daring counter attack right into the heart of on looking enemy. The ferocity of his daring attack won him the respect of the enemy defending the Tiger Hills who deliberated upon him as “The Lion Karnal Sher”…