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IT’s been called a haven for terrorists, the birthplace of Taliban and a threat to world peace. In fact the Economist magazine called it the world’s most dangerous place. Post 9/11 Pakistan has lived with these humiliating sobriquets. But the National Geographic Channel, in its ongoing series Don’t Tell My Mother on Monday at 9 pm, shows some little-known but positive aspects of Pakistan. Show host Diego Bunuel travels for a month across 2,000 km in an incredibly diverse and surprising land, where stereotypes and assumptions about religion, terrorism and fundamentalism among the Pakistanis come crashing down one after another. What emerges is a country of people whose warmth and friendship is as infectious as their food and scenery. Roman misadventure It is one of history’s
most enduring mysteries. The year 218 A.D. saw the rise of a brilliant
military commander history has ever seen — Hannibal. His name is
synonymous with the crossing of the Alps with an army of elephants to
fulfil a lifelong ambition to invade Italy and destroy Rome. Hannibal:
The Enemy of Rome on Sunday at 9 pm on the History and Entertainment
Channel is a dramatised documentary that shows the life of Hannibal and
finds out what motivated him to virtually do the impossible. It tries
answers a number of questions: How did Hannibal crush the biggest army
of Rome yet lose the war? How did he become the touchstone of the Roman
Empire? Why is he still considered the greatest military commander in
history, when he died by his own hand, hunted down by the Romans? And
how did his defeat ultimately become the making of the great Roman
Empire? Find out in this absorbing programme. — NF
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