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Islamabad: Nandana Fort, the scene of many epic battles and which holds echoes of centuries-old civilizations, will soon be opened for tourists after major conservation. The remains of the fort, located on a hilltop overlooking the Salt Range in Pakistan’s Punjab province, would be conserved by the tourism and archaeology department of Punjab to convert it into an international tourist attraction site. “We have decided to preserve the site [Nandana Fort] and build infrastructure so it becomes accessible to tourists” Prime Minister Imran Khan said as he launched the heritage trail projec...

Exciting day trip to historical salt range Islamabad February 28, 2021 Islamabad: The Asian Study Group has organised an exciting day trip to the Salt Range which comprises of two rows of low lying rugged hills that run east to west between the Soan and Jhelum rivers - from the Grand Trunk Road near Jhelum city to the River Indus near Kalabagh. This area is said to record 600 million years of the earth’s history. The name comes from the vast deposits of rock salt exposed and mined at Khewra. The salt was left behind when the sea, which extended over the Indus plains and the Potohar platea...

Jhelum’s Bhaganwala will be transformed into model village: PM Says tourism will create job opportunities SAMAA | TV - Posted: Feb 28, 2021 | Last Updated: 1 month ago SAMAA | TV Posted: Feb 28, 2021 | Last Updated: 1 month ago Your browser does not support the video tag. The government will transform Jhelum's Bhaganwala into a model village, Prime Minister Imran Khan promised. The premier inaugurated a heritage trail at the historical Alberoni Site in Nandana Fort on Sunday. Addressing the residents of the village, he said that growth in the tourism industry will substantia...

Plant Collectors In Kashmir Ralph R Stewart who  push-biked into Kashmir more than a century earlier details the contributions that Western experts made to Kashmir taxonomy A view of Botanical Garden in Srinagar I must be Rogers McVaugh’s oldest pupil. I did not know him until I was 70 and about to retire from Gordon College, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, where I had worked from 1911 until 1960, except for occasional furloughs in this country. When Rogers took charge of the angiosperm herbarium in 1960, following the death of ‘Uncle’ Harley Bartlett, his distinguished predecessor, he fo...

A man applies the final touches to a sculpture made from Himalayan pink rock salt on the outskirts of Lahore. — Reuters ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Commerce on Thursday announced that it will register Himalayan pink salt — extracted from the Salt Range which extends along the south of the Potohar Plateau and the north of the Jhelum River — as Geographical Indications (GI). The decision was taken in a meeting with the Intellectual Property Organisation (IPO) Pakistan chaired by Commerce Adviser Razak Dawood. IPO Chairman Mujeeb Ahmed Khan also attended the meeting. An official announcemen...