Thar Express Thar Express Thar Express () is an international passenger train operated weekly by Pakistan Railways between Karachi and Khokhrapar. The trip takes approximately 7 hours, 5 minutes to cover a published distance of , traveling along a stretch of the Karachi–Peshawar Railway Line and Hyderabad–Khokhrapar Branch Line. Upon reaching Zero Point railway station and clearing customs, passengers cross the border to Munabao, India and board the Thar Link Express to Jodhpur. The Thar Express is a continuation of the previous "Sind Mail" which was revived after a period of 41 years on 18 February 2006. The Thar Express travels along
In the Heart of the Country In the Heart of the Country In the Heart of the Country (1977) is an early novel by South African-born writer J. M. Coetzee. The book is one of Coetzee's more experimental novels and is narrated through 266 numbered paragraphs rather than chapters. The novel is narrated from the point of view of Magda, the white daughter of a widowed farmer in the Karoo semi-desert of the Western Cape. Much of the novel is narrated from within the claustrophobic confines of Magda's bedroom and throughout the narrative the unreliability of Magda's narration means the reader cannot be certain what is