ABOUT UNTAMED BORDERS 

The Team

Prince Mahir Ullah Khan

Since the mid nineties the Prince has been a one man tourist board and NGO rolled into one for Peshawar and the NWFP. He is the president of both the "The World Welfare Organisation" and the "Peace, Welfare and Development Organisation". The two organisation deal with a raft of issues including tourism promotion, educational projects, legal aid and drug abuse facilities in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. He also acts as the editor of "World Problem's" magazine which has a varied readership from national politicians to local religious leaders. He has travelled to numerous countries in his role as a cultural ambassador and has received awards for this service from the Pakistan Tourism and Development department. However his first love is showing people around the sights of Pakistan and he has arranged countless trips and tours for a variety of people from ambassadors to backpackers. His enthusiastic approach never changes and he has bought countless people their first cup of tea in the great Pathan city of Peshawar.

Kausar Hussain

Born in Peshawar, Hussain has travelled every inch of Pakistan and Afghanistan and has friends almost everywhere from the bustling bazaars of Kabul to sleepy, poppy growing villages in the Tribal Areas. When not leading tours and running Untamed Borders, Hussain works as a photographer and journalist. He is the chief reporter for "World Problems" magazine and also works freelance. For ten years he has worked with foreign correspondents allowing them access to restricted areas in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He also works with Prince as part of the "World Welfare Organisation", a Peshawar based NGO. He is well known to many independent travellers for his advice on traveling safely in the region and offering access to restricted areas.  Either in person when they reach Peshawar or through travel chat rooms and bulletin boards. 

Hussain speaks 9 languages and for the last 5 years spends time teaching English to Afghan refugees based in the camps that surround Peshawar.

James Willcox 

After a varied career including selling rugby programs at Twickenham, putting in the stoppers in a hot water bottle factory, being a postboy for Channel 4 and even a stint as a Health and Safety Manager he set off from Istanbul a few years back heading for an Indian beach. He got delayed however in Pakistan and Afghanistan. After a chance meeting with Hussain and a mutual love of an area that they both want the rest of the world to come and see they set up Untamed Borders.

When James is not guiding people around Central Asia he can be found either in Peshawar drinking tea, in Amsterdam with his girlfriend or in London where he is slowly coming to terms with owning a flat with negative equity.