Whenever I happened to go my father’s office (which contained two big office tables, one for his immediate boss and the other for my father), he sat b
Read MoreMy dear readers you might have noted how the State System worked with marvelous speed and efficiency. The only means of communication was telephone. T
Read MoreShagai School was upgraded to High Standard, with additional construction and the Central Jail, Saidu Sharif was converted to Wadudia High School afte
Read MoreMy father never gave up hope of seeing his son again. He often talked of him, when we used to set around the fire in the long winter nights. My duty w
Read MoreGoing back to my childhood, I was sent to school probably in 1950. My elder brother was already in class 3rd.My father got leave from office for an ho
Read MoreLet us go back to 1944. It was a revolutionary year in the history of Swat State. It saw the downfall of the ‘Wazir Brothers’ and the advent of a new
Read MoreI was born on 5th April 1943, in a comparatively small house in Afsar Abad, Saidu Sharif, where high ranking State officials lived in large havelis. M
Read MoreBy virtue of the multiple types of political ties that exist in the area, no maximal political unit can be defined; lineages are associated in village
Read MoreThe next morning Malka was set on fire, and the huge , column of smoke which ascended from the burning village, and was visible for miles round, did n
Read MoreThe terms which were drawn up, and to which the Bunerwals agreed, were: The breaking-up of the tribal gathering in the Buner Pass. The destruction of
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