The life as i see it.

By Dr Agha Inamullah Khan November 17th 2013 Last year in July I went along with my family for a holiday trip to northern Pakistan. I drove from Shikarpur(Sindh), and after one day transit stop in Lahore(Punjab), and on invitation by a friend from school days in Shikarpur, Brigadier Tariq, we went to stay with him in Sialkot cantonment. I told Tariq that I did not have any pre-set schedule of the trip; however I wished to go to Chitral, Swat Valley, Kaghan and Kashmir. He advised me to avoid, Chitral; the upper and lower Dir area due to bad weather and the type of vehicle I was driving; it was not an easy journey by a car. But I guess it could have been security concerns as well and he did not want to scare me may be, as the very same month latter I realized after we had returned home, a bus was stopped by Taliban who after checking the identity cards of the passengers, killed all those who belonged to shia sect of Islam in Chitral area. Although I do not belong to Shia sect, how