NEELA A VILLAGE OF CHAKWAL

UBaiD neela   Back in 490 BC Persian Empire’s Easterly boundary included present-day Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Baluchistan. The Story of Khusrau, Shirin Farhad The story of Khosrow, Shirin, is set in Persia, somewhere in the 10th century when Seljuk Turks ruled the roost in the Muslim world , right up to Armenia. Khusrau was an exiled Persian king, Shirin was an Armenian princess of exceptional beauty and Farhad was their royal stone sculptor. Farad was a skilled royal builder, who was pretty sought after in those days. Khusrau was mesmerized by Shirin’s beauty and asked for her hand in marriage so that she becomes a good luck charm for his impending conquest of the Persian throne. Shirin politely declined the king in waiting and asked him to get the throne first, then check up on the offer. Khusrau in the meantime married a roman queen and got Roman help in snatching back his throne. In all this melee, Farhad, the royal mason, could not help falling for the gorgeous Armenian...