"In the year 973 H. (1565 A.D.,) near the end of his life, ‘Isa Tarkhan, proceeded with his son, Mirza Muhammad Baki, …"

"The Bodhisatta was once the youngest of one hundred sons of the king of Benares. He heard from the Pacceka Buddhas, w…"

"Islamabad, “the city of Islam,” the capital of Pakistan, was new. It had been built about twenty years before by a mi…"

"But just below appearances in Karachi, below what was easily graspable, was the faith, and the fever of the faith, wh…"

"Karachi at its worst is a Karachi unconcerned with people who exist outside the storyteller’s circle, a Karachi obliv…"

"Nothing definitive is recorded about the town’s first settlers. In the 3rd century AD, Kanishka, the Buddhist ruler o…"

"Sialkot has many historical, religious and romantic associations with the past According to popular legends the city …"

"The British had ruled here for under a hundred years, and more than thirty years had passed since they had left, but …"

"Rawalpindi, twenty miles away, was the older city. In one direction it sprawled towards Islamabad; but in the centre …"

"Peshawar was the first city that Mahmud selected for the maiden expedition of his holy war against Hind in 1001. This…"