An Escape to Takht-e-Bahi (Mardan)

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Published Sep 10, 2011

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Shaikh Muhammad Ali
Freelance Writer

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“Do they not travel through the land, so that their hearts (and minds) may thus learn wisdom and their ears may thus learn to hear�.................Juz 17, Sura Hajj (XXII), Verse 46, Quran. I have been trying to find a reason as to why I am so fond of traveling since the time I was a child. The first answer I found was when I was around seven years of age and I happened to read my horoscope, a science which I hardly understood at that tender age; but to my astonishment, I was a Capricorn. Yes, a mountain goat which rises to splendid heights up in the mountains. Other reason I found lately around 4:30 a.m. in the morning was when I happened to read the above verse in the Quran which somehow depicts my quench for traveling and knowledge when the ‘wandering dervish’ that I have come to be known by my friends; realized that my heart is pumped with fresh blood during my newer and crazier escapades to un-beaten tracks & remote locations within the land of the pure i.e. Pakistan.

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Vol 4 No 1 (2012): Spring Issue
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Author Biography

Shaikh Muhammad Ali, Freelance Writer

Shaikh Muhammad Ali (BSEET, MBM) has a Bachelors in Electronics Engineering from University of Southern Colorado, USA and a Masters in Business Management from the Asian Institute of Management, Manila, Philippines. After having worked in the private sector locally & abroad for almost fourteen years, he is now working as the senior most Project Director (HRD) for the Higher Education Commission (HEC) for the last 8.5 years and is currently managing foreign scholarship programs for faculty development of Public sector universities in Pakistan and is also experimenting with the concept of Change Management.