Situationer: THE LONG ROAD TO ATTOCK

A roughly two-hour drive east from Peshawar brings us to Attock, on the banks of the Indus. On the Punjab side, the inescapable Att­o­ck fortress, an imposing 16th century structure, dominates the relative lowlands of Khairabad in Khyber Pakh­tun­khwa’s Nows­hera district — the venue of PTI’s renewed campaign to secure the release of their jailed leader, or at the very least seek some relief for him. Connecting the two provinces via the N-5 — or Grand Trunk Road of yore — is the 701-metre new bridge at Khairabad, which sits not too far from its 119-year-old two-tiered steel truss road bridge…