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Pakistan through the eyes of a train traveller

From the Blog odysseuslahoriWhen the first train pulled into Quetta in March 1887, it did not roll the way they do today up the stony bends of the Bolan Pass. Instead, the line struck north from Sibi into the 160-kilometre-long meandering gorge of the Nari River through the sulphur-stained badlands of Gandakeen Aaf (sulphur water in Balochi) past such evocative names as Tanduri that is still famous for its furnace summer heat and into the cool highlands of Harnai and Shahrag. In those days when the Great Game had reached a frenzied pitch, the line that dreamed of reaching Kandahar was called the Kandahar State Railway. Northwest of Harnai lay Khost and beyond it the dramatic yawning maw of the Chhappar Rift. But the rift is a tale of glorious achievement and woe so far as railway engineers of that time wpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full PostComments

Kinnaird Parties

From the Blog pakistanimodelsFrom the blog Lahore Girls : Kinnaird Parties, (part of the PakistaniModels.blogspot.com Network) To see pictures, click the headline above.pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full PostComments

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