Stories from Salman Rashid
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Mountain of Forty Souls
This story was the Brahuis’ salute to a mountain whose fertility had kept them alive through the generations.
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Milk-cream Mountains
kheer in Sindhi is milk and thar cream. The compound name Khirthar, therefore, means Milk-cream Mountains.
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Alexander as Zulqarnain
We stretch words of scripture to make Zulqarnain fit into Alexander’s shoes, because he defeated a Hindu Punjab king.
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The death of Chakar Khan
What touched most was the feeling with which he spoke for the Baloch, the way state had perpetrated injustice on them.
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Interpreting Alexander
Various historians from different eras and places in the world have painted Alexander according to their own morality.
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Blinded by guilt
Those who kill in Pakistan are once again charged with religious fervour. They, too, have no remorse.
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Outrage?
We are all liars, hypocrites & scamsters whose only service to a cause or belief, even religion, is only lip service.
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Blinded by guilt
Laliani's gang of 4 conspired against the Sikh during partition, wracked by guilt of their crime, they died in misery.
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Tunnels
There were no tunnels of any considerable length built by the Mughals. They lacked the capacity of tunnel engineering.
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