Tombs on the seafront
From the Blog odysseuslahoriPakistan is a country of suni-sunai history: someone mouths some silly banality prefixing it with a weighty-sounding, 'In 315 BCE…' and all within earshot gobble it up as gospel. No one bothers to counter-check. The result is that fools and charlatans have become our most respected historians and the plethora of worthless television channels has turned these wafflers into national icons. *A cluster of ruined elaborately-carved sandstone tombs at Aghor* End result: most people, even those supposedly educated, know no history. They only memorise tripe they think is history. For the past decade or so, I have written several times on the route Mohammad bin Qasim took into the subcontinent and the way he exited under arrest to be imprisoned in Iraq and die there in ignominy. This wapakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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