‘Nur Singh Pawar’ or ‘Nursing Phuwaar’, as it is called locally is a Hindu temple and retreat nestled on a sharp ledge 300 meters above the canyon floor that runs towards Katha Masral town from the highlands of Soon Sakesar hills. It is 2.5 hours from Rawalpindi when you get off Kalar Kahar interchange. It is…
Bhera is the once prosperous, and now defunct city, on the Eastern bank of Jhelum River. The city was the first line of defense against invaders from the West. Meaning of Bhera The meaning of “Bhera”, a city in Sargodha Pakistan, Be-hara or ‘fearless place’ in Sanskrit. They had to give Bhera city, a jingoistic…
SirKap Taxila is the only Greek city in the Indo-Pakistan Subcontinent from the Greco-Bactrian times. Taxila city, which is synonymous with Sirkap Taxila, has been mentioned by Greek philosopher Apollonius of Tyana of the 1st Century AD as resembling Athens and Nineveh (a Greek colony in present-day Iraq). Even a Chinese traveler of early times…
