The highway and the well
From the Blog odysseuslahoriTwenty years ago I spent a couple of days with my army chum Ahmed Yar Bandial in his village which is, naturally, Bandial. It sits on the old highroad from Khushab to Mianwali. For good measure, it keeps company with village Hadali, famous for being the ancestral place of the great Khushwant Singh. Incidentally, upon his passing, our very own Fakir Syed Aijazuddin brought home the ashes of the great writer to inter them in one wall of the school where this future luminary first learned the secrets of the written word. *The well: Rising just above the mesquite trees in the back can be seen the domed pillars marking the head of the steps leading into the well* But all this was just to get the geography right. On the first visit, my mate had showed me a brick-paved road passing thpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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