One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan.
This turbulent history, entwined with a sup.
Alice Albinia follows the River upstream, through two thousand miles of geography and back to a time five thousand years ago when a string of sophisticated cities grew on its banks.
It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan s fractious union.
One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan