If you haven’t heard the name ‘Potohar’ before, fret not – it’s not a place of any particular international repute. It just happens to accurately capture the boundaries – with one big exception – of the region of northeastern Pakistan that is the subject of this story. Surrounded by foothills of the Himalayas and the Hindukush and two of the five rivers that flow through the Punjab province – ‘Punj-Aab’ is Persian for ‘five rivers’ – the Potohar plateau is significant for various reasons, the most obvious one being that it is home to Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad:
