When I was faced with the prospect of taking up a research project in Literature my instant and natural reaction was to investigate the literary heritage of Khyber. Khyber is my native land and my home and the milk of Khyber still circulates in my veins , although I have turned my back on it, as it were, for the last about twenty years, to have settled in Peshawar. But this physical migration has hardly affected my spiritual attachment to Khyber, and I have always felt strongly drown towards it by the ties of strong tribal instincts, which I feel to be my second if not the first nature. . . . Read More

In the first century BC when polo was invented in Central Asia, kings probably judged the skills of their horsemen by watching them battle with the opponent's team to wrest the "polo" - ball in the local language - from them. There was no limit to the number of players in each team. . . . Read More