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Fortgotten Forts of Pakistan.

shahid

Tour Guide, Lahore, Pakistan

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What is it really like to walk into a fort and for a moment to close one's eyes; in the death like silence of an early evening, in a lost corner of the world standing by the ramparts of a fort you may well find yourself swept back three four, five centuries to another place and another time.Forts do that to people,because you always know that the spot you are standing on is where kings marched and generals clashed.This is where empires began and dynasties fell.forts fill you with ave and the certainty that nothing ever stays the same, that the only permanent thing in the world,is change.There are as many forts and my be more than all the kings who have ruled this land.Dotted across the deserts,the plains and mountains,they seem to follow no apparent design yet these forts constituted the first,second and third lines of defense against invading armies that entered this territory from the north west and marched across to capture the kingdom of Dehli.
That is why today hundreds of years later,these giants rise into the heavens,mute testimony of empires that once were all powerful.The forts stretch from sind to the frontier Amarkot fort, Ranikot fort, Kot Digi Fort, Bhakkar fort, Deraar fort, Multan fort, Lahore fort, Rewat fort, Rohtas fort, Peshawar fort, Baltit fort, Altit fort, Attock fort the names go on as do the stories.Amarkot where a defeated mogul emperor fleeing from India to a sanctuary in Iran,saw a son born,a boy called Akbar who was to rule India for over half a century.Ranikot reputed to be the biggest fort in the world with an outer wall that encompasses 24 square k.m, Multan fort where Alexander was seriously injured an Rohtas built by a king who, had he lived more than his five years, would very well have changed the history of this land.
So this year take a journey into history, into the land of forgotten forts.It,s a world that is eternal like time