Top Items About Pakistan

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AnecdotesPeccadillo?

In August 1842, Charles Napier, having annexed the province of Sind (giving the British control of the Indus River, in...

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ImagesGround Zero Ocean

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AnecdotesSimla Accord

On July 2nd, 1972, Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto signed the Simla Accord, committing their warring nations (India...

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AnecdotesPolitical Stew?

In January 1950, Victor Biaka-Boda, a former witch doctor representing the Ivory Coast in the French Senate, toured...

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AnecdotesAlan Hinkes: Chapati Blooper

"After great expense and preparation, British climber Alan Hinkes attempted to scale the 26,000-foot-high Nanga...

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AnecdotesBritish Hospitality?

One evening after a formal dinner at Buckingham Palace, Winston Churchill had the following remarkable conversation with...

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AnecdotesPervez Musharraf: Pardon!?

"On February 4th [2004], Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, who is revered in Pakistan as the father of the country`s nuclear...

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AnecdotesClerical Error (long)

In 2002, Andrew Marshall interviewed a 40-year-old Muslim cleric named Jaffar Umar Thalib. Jaffar, "tall and...

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AnecdotesDudley Simpson?

In August 2002, mountain climbers attempting to reach the summit of K2 in Pakistan discovered the bones of Dudley Wolfe,...

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AnecdotesNawaz Sharif & Pervez Musharraf: Pakistani Politics

Shortly after Nawaz Sharif was overthrown by Pakistani General Pervez Musharraf at the turn of the milllennium,...

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