Tourism and Ideology
The history of the people of Pakistan is re-written while the history of the Pakistani landscape is allowed to disappear.
The ideological orientation of the Pakistani state tends to obliterate the possibilities of social and economic advancement of the country in many areas. Tourism is one, an industry whose potential to provide income to a cash-starved nation remains largely untapped.
Pakistan is in many ways like Egypt, its landscape bristling with antiquity. This heritage goes right back to the Indus civilisation, whose silent testimony is to be found in the stones and seals of Harappa and Mohenjodaro on the Punjab plain. What is today Pakistan was also the centre of Buddhist learning, with Texila as just one such monastic centre.