New Delhi: We have heard, and seen in movies that most
dangerous criminal are clad in heavy iron-chains, but, in a bizarre twist, a
tree in Pakistan has been put in iron-chains for the last 118 years.
This
would have surely surprised you. The questions, how and why a tree is locked in
chains must be boggling your mind? Certainly, such news is unusual and weird as
well.
According to Pakistani media, the
tree had been punished by a British officer who pronounced this punishment to
the tree. Since 1898, the tree at Army cant, Landi Kotal, Pakistan, is locked
with heavy chains. The story behind this punishment will take you by surprise.
Once, a British officer, James
Squad was drunk and passing by the tree. All of a sudden, he felt that the tree
was following him. Scared, the officer called his men and ordered to arrest the
tree and put in chains. Since then the tree is locked.
A board is hung on the tree that
reads, ''I am under arrest.''
Now, the question is, even 70 years after the British left, why is
the tree under arrest?
Actually, Pakistan administration decided to exhibit the level of
atrocity of British rule which did not spare even a tree. So, the tree is still
standing as a prisoner and the area is marked as a tourist
spot.
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whether to laugh or scared ................... today....???????
whether to laugh or scared ................... today....???????