CULTUREMultan in Glaze and Devotion: The City of Saints
Multan is often introduced as Pakistan’s City of Saints, but its identity cannot be contained by a single phrase. Its brick mausoleums, blue pottery, crowded bazaars and devotional traditions reveal a city shaped by learning, craft, commerce and the ordinary acts of care that sustain a living sacred landscape.
02 Oct 2026 · Multan · 8 min read
FOODPakistan at Breakfast: Halwa Puri, Chana, Paratha and the Many Meanings of Nashta
Pakistani breakfasts are often introduced through the exuberance of halwa puri, but the country’s morning table is far broader. Across homes, roadside kitchens and old bazaars, nashta can be quick or ceremonial, modest or generous: paratha with tea, naan with chickpeas, slow-cooked paye, Sindhi koki, Balochistan’s kaak and the grain-based foods of the northern mountains. To understand these mornings is to see how cli
01 Oct 2026 · 8 min read
PERSONPorters of the Karakoram: Skill, Endurance and Expedition Culture
The Karakoram expedition is usually remembered through a summit, a glacier or a famous climber. Yet its moving force has long been the porter: the man who carries supplies over rough approaches, reads weather and terrain, keeps a camp functioning, and helps turn distant mountains into reachable places. In Baltistan and neighbouring valleys, portering is both livelihood and mountain knowledge—deserving to be understoo
30 Sep 2026 · 8 min read
PLACESaidpur Village: Heritage at the Foot of the Margallas
Saidpur Village is often approached as a picturesque stop beneath the Margalla Hills. Look more closely, and it becomes something more revealing: a living settlement where Potohar traditions, pre-Partition sacred architecture, family memory and the pressures of modern urban tourism meet in a remarkably small landscape.
29 Sep 2026 · Islamabad · 8 min read
HISTORYThe Khyber Pass: Where the Mountains Open Toward Peshawar
The Khyber Pass is often remembered as a route of invasion. Its fuller story is more complex: a mountain passage shaped by local communities, caravan trade, Gandharan culture and the long life of Peshawar as a meeting place between regions.
28 Sep 2026 · Peshawar · 8 min read
NATUREPassu Cones: The Dramatic Spires of Upper Hunza
The Passu Cones are among Pakistan’s most recognisable mountain forms: a row of sharp limestone spires rising above the village of Passu in Upper Hunza. Yet their meaning extends beyond the photograph. To understand them is to look closely at a lived high-mountain landscape shaped by Wakhi culture, irrigated fields, moving ice and the immense geological forces of the Karakoram.
27 Sep 2026 · Hunza · 8 min read
CITY-GUIDEKarachi Beyond the Skyline: Sea, Food, History and Neighbourhoods
Karachi is often introduced through traffic, towers and its vastness. Look closer and another city appears: a harbour shaped by the Arabian Sea, old quarters named for water gates, markets that carry the memory of trade, and food that tells the story of migration and appetite.
26 Sep 2026 · Karachi · 8 min read
TOURISMChitral: Forts, Festivals and Mountain Communities
Chitral is often introduced through its dramatic mountains, but its deeper character lies in the ways communities have made a life among them: guarding river corridors, tending high pastures, speaking a remarkable range of languages and gathering for sport, music and ceremony. From the riverbank walls of Chitral Fort to the spring meadows of Qaqlasht and the polo ground at Shandur, this is a place where heritage is n
25 Sep 2026 · 8 min read
CULTUREKalash Valleys: A Distinct Culture in the Hindu Kush
Bumburet, Rumbur and Birir are often introduced through colour and festival. Their deeper story lies in a community whose cultural life is inseparable from mountain seasons, oral memory, careful land use and the right to define itself beyond outsider myths.
24 Sep 2026 · 8 min read
HERITAGEMakli Necropolis: A Stone Chronicle of Sindh
Makli is not simply a cemetery. Across a broad limestone ridge near Thatta, tombs, mausoleums and carved graves turn the history of Sindh into a remarkable architectural landscape—one shaped by rulers and scholars, saints and artisans, changing dynasties and the enduring skill of stoneworkers.
23 Sep 2026 · 8 min read
FOODFrom Chapli Kebab to Sajji: A Culinary Journey Across Pakistan
Pakistan is not defined by one national plate. Its cooking moves from the crisp-edged chapli kebabs of the northwest to the slow-roasted sajji of Balochistan, through wheat-rich Punjab, rice-loving Sindh, Karachi’s migrant kitchens and the grain-and-apricot traditions of the northern mountains. The journey is less about a list of famous dishes than about the landscapes, communities and rituals that give them meaning.
23 Sep 2026 · 9 min read
CITY-GUIDEIslamabad: A Green Capital Between Hills and Heritage
Set beneath the Margalla Hills, Islamabad offers a quieter way to encounter Pakistan. Its ordered sectors and civic landmarks sit beside forest trails, village edges, folk collections and the deep archaeological memory of nearby Taxila.
23 Sep 2026 · Islamabad · 8 min read