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THE sons of Jhelum tell stories regarding the name of their town and the river that give their district its name. The favourite among these, and also the most widely believed, is that Jhelum was the name of a horse owned by that most celebrated of all classical warrior kings, Alexander of Macedonia. Jhelum was the horse, it is said, that had carried the young king across the world on his enviable career of conquest and glory. According to this legend, the ...
Salman Rashid takes you on a journey through the hills, wooden balconies and picturesque towns of Pakistan Safed Koh — White Mountain, once glistened with snow the whole year round. The mountain is so named, wrote Babar the Mughal, “because its snow never lessens.†Having made himself master of the Kabul valley in 1504, Babur described the range as running south of Ningarhar (Afghanistan) dividing that province from the country of the Bangash Pakhtoons. ...