MOUNTAINS AND VALLEYS : On the way to Swat

Wishes do come true!
Strange wishes also do come true,

Not always,

but sometimes they really do,

you never know.

I wished to be in Swat in my childhood.

So, this is my second day and going to be my third night in Swat.

I have already appreciated many things in last 45 hours.

We started off at 10:15 p.m. on Monday,

traveling through Sindh and Punjab,

reached inside Swat exactly in 24 hours.

We passed by Hyderabad, Nawab Shah, Moro, Sukkur, Pannu Aqil and Ghotki mumbling invocations and surahs of Qur'an as we were terrified to death by people around us telling us the stories of Dakus in Sindh.

Though the cities were extremely quiet all the way as it was the Eid night, Alhamdulillah, no expected incident occurred, except for at somewhere in Moro we had to change the tyre. It wasn't that dark as I could see millions of stars sparkling in the sky and all we could hear was the crickets chirping all around.

It was already dawn at the border of Sindh and Punjab.