Salman Rashid

Nyla Daud Cutting through the burgeoning Mughal Empire in the 1540s, the Bihar-born Pakhtun soldier Farid Khan — better known as Sher Shah...

I am  2300 years old !

I first saw this fabled hilltop fort in 1989. It sits above the village of Mari, some 40 kms north of Mianwali and overlooks to the west, on...

A nthropologist Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro is working in overdrive. Taking time off from his teaching assignment at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islam...

Rizwana Naqvi For long, images of the golden, unspoiled beaches of the Makran coast had “captured the imagination of the romantically inclin...

Ali Bhutto     Up until the early 1990s, the portion of the Thar Desert that lies within Pakistan was largely devoid of blacktop roads, with...

I have two abiding memories of the Walton aerodrome. This first is from 1956, or the year after. I would have been four or five. Driving wit...

I first met Ibne Abdur Rehman, Rehman sahib to everyone who knew him, in January 1989. It could have been sometime later, but that really is...

I am 2300 years old !