In the courtyard of a church located in DIK cantt can be seen a grave known among the local people as grave of an headless Englishman.
Many people mistakenly consider it to be the grave of Sir Mortimar Durand, the British engineer who drew the famous Durand Line. The fact of the matter is that the grave in question is not his but it is of his father Henry Morwen Mortimer, who was a senior official in the then British colonial service. In 1871 he was on a visit to Tank and was having a round of Tank bazaar sitting on a palankeen fitted over an elephant alongwith Nawab of Tank when all of a sudden the elephant went berserk and palankeen struck against a gate while passing under it as a result of which he fell down and broke his head and neck. The gate in was since then named after him as Durand gate and is present even today.
POST SCRIPT
There are reports that a new narcotic powder billed ice is being sold in canteens and tuck shops of educational institutions in the federal capital. This drug is playing havoc with the mental and physical health of new generation of the country. The law enforcing agencies had better take an urgent remedial action in the matter before it is too late.
