Potohar
On The Plateau
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The Mysterious Tomb Outside Rohtas
روہتاس کے خواص خانی گیٹ پر دفن ایک سر اور خواص پور کے مزار میں لیٹے دھڑ کو ملاتی تاریخ کی بھول بھلیوں سے گزرتی ایک کتھا۔
Roman Baths of Pakistan
The group explores the wilderness of Potohar, reaching out to a tricky landscape with hanging rocks on one side and gradually sloping thickly vegetated landmass on the other. From a source deep underground, springs flow out accumulating in the square crevices extending down below forming a series of terraced ponds with shiny blue waters.
A trip to embrace the Jogis of the Kanphata tribe. An adventure to scale Tilla Jogiyan. The day I auctioned myself.
A Tale of Three Cities
The Jewel of Salt Range
Springs ooze out from the mountain cracks, making a ring of waterfalls that fall below shaping up into a lake.
Emerald waters glowing in the sun reveal the underwater delights, the stones and pebbles, the reef patterned ridges and fish and crabs.
Catching the trail from a seasoned patwari from Gujar Khan, following the remote routes into the rural heart of Potohar, refueling our car from an unorthodox gas station with quite an unorthodox filling mechanism, we eventually knocked at the doorsteps of Sawar Muhammad Hussain Shaheed, Nishan e Haider.
Moments of solitude, meditating with nature, and rediscovering the simplicity of the universal language. All this in the company of some caring friends conspiring to make that happen.
A Poppy in Potohar
پوٹھوہار کے پہاڑوں کے دامن میں پنڈ ملکاں کے ایک مقبرے میں محوِ استراحت پُل کنجری کے مجاہد کی داستان
عشق لوہارا تازہ رہندا داڑھی ہوجائے چٹی
A Scottish Cannon in Potohar Plateau
... those who continued to fight even after the surrender
... with their names becoming immortal
and their tales, a source of inspiration
the tale of lion-heart and immortal Mahfooz ...
Outside of Rohtas Fort are places lost by history but alive in stories. 'Stories you enjoy listening to, over a cup of tea and a cigarette, under the setting rays of sun.'
Story of an unexpected discovery. An initial disappointment turning to almost an excitement as I sweated to reach out to a relic from railway's past
دیارِ غیر کا شہید مشین محلّے کی یادگار اگر آپ جہلم ریلوے سٹیشن پر اترتے ہیں تو پلیٹ فارم نمبر2 پر سٹیشن ماسٹر کا دفتر ہے جسکے دروازے کے ساتھ ہی دیوار پر جہلم کے سپوت میجر اکرم شہید کا تعارفی پوسٹر لگا ہے۔ ریلوے پلیٹ فارم کے مخالف جہاں مال گاڑیوں کی لگیج برتھ …