Shami kebabs

In the earlier years of his career in the Royal Engineers, my father’s work led him to tour and inspect some of the more distant areas of the northwest of what was then India. He was actively engaged in works projects, such as building bridges and roads, and the siting of these took him to many places: Gilgit and Chitral, Swat and Buner, Waziristan, Baluchistan, Quetta — he visited them all. Accompanied by the faithful Umar Khan, he rode horses, jolted along in all kinds of