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Articles by Gerald Zarr

Five Rivers Run Through It

Lahore in the 1970s, alternately Mughal, Gothic, and Victorian in atmosphere, was this visitor’s favorite city in Pakistan.

A River Runs Through It

The Karachi of the 1970s, when you could sail in the harbor, shop in Saddar Bazaar, and explore the Sindh countryside without fear.

Spoilt Beauty

Pakistan’s hill stations—vanishing oases of beauty.

Gone with the Mullahs

Where poets once sang the perfect ode to the orange blossom and an act of kindness was five liters of gas lent to stranded motorists on the Kabul Gorge—remembering Afghanistan in better days.

Wagah: Enough History for One Lifetime

"That's Wagah?" my wife Christine asked incredulously when I showed her the front page photograph of turban-clad soldiers in ceremonial ...
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