Daily Times

PESHAWAR: The book launching ceremony of ‘In Pursuit of Knowledge’, the autobiography of renowned Oncologist Professor Dr Sher Muhammad Khan took place at 100 years’ old Roos Keppel Hall of Islamia College University Peshawar. The book, as Dr Sher Khan puts it, is the memoirs of his life and experiences that he has learnt about his Pukhtun people as well as people of other nationalities, including the Iranians, Turks and the United Kingdom.

“It details my childhood accounts of the mosque, madarssa, different schools, our village and different colours of the village life. Besides writing about the Pukhtun nation, their hospitality, generosity, honour I have mentioned about their bad qualities like jealousy and rivalry among family and tribes,” Dr Sher told this scribe. He added that his researcher friend Prof. Charles Lindholm, a social anthropologist from the United Kingdom (UK) motivated him to pen down the customs and traditions of Swat as I saw them.

“Prof Charles did a research on Swat in 1970’s. He has keen interest in the North West of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Middle East and he asked me 10 years ago to work on saving the trends of Swat for future generations through a book,” said the lanky Doctor sporting shiny grey hair and a broad smile on his face.