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Day: November 18, 2015

Swat’s booming tomato crop

Posted by admin | Nov 18, 2015 | Swat |

By Fazal Khaliq MINGORA: The tomato growers in Barikot tehsil are earning good profits on their produce this year due to a bumper crop. Hazrat Khan, who has been growing and supplying tomato to Rawalpindi and Peshawar markets for last 19 years, said that his produce got better rates in the two cities. “Tomato produced in Swat is liked by people in other parts of the country due to its good quality,” he said. Hazrat Khan said he had about 10 labourers working on his fields, some of whom picking tomatoes while others packing the produce for transportation. “We...

Pakistan’s Gandhara ruins to receive Korea’s Buddhists

Posted by admin | Nov 18, 2015 | Gandhara |

By Joel Lee for Korea Herald According to some historians, Korea’s Buddhism traces its roots to the Gandharan Civilization that thrived 2,000 years ago in the territories of today’s northern Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Mahayana school of Korea’s Buddhism ― one of two main branches alongside the Hinayana school ― was introduced to the ancient Kingdom of Baekje (B.C. 18-A.D. 660) in 384 by monk Maranatha, native of Gandhara, the historical records say. The triangular tract largely to the west of the Indus River and bounded to the north by the Hindukush Mountains includes the Peshawar Valley, Taxila, Swat,...

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