When the Prophet of Islam (peace and blessings on him) returned to Makkah at the head of a large victorious...

On my year-long study tour of the United States, many African Americans, when asked about American identity in relation to...

More than any other Indian, Vivekananda brought the Hindu faith to the United States of America. With his opening words...

There was a direct linear connection between Bhutto’s death and my near fatal accident. I will illustrate the principle of...

The search for paradise on earth has always fired the imagination of scholars and dreamers, whether it is the Englishman...

In my first conversation with Nawab Akbar Bugti, he cited Ibn Khaldun. I was curious as to where the Nawab...

A Baloch woman wearing her bridal jewelry could walk alone from one end of the Balochistan province to the other...

Dr Akbar Ahmed will be writing his memoirs for TFT about his eventful life and multiple pursuits. This is the...

Our prayers and blessings for the departed soul of the late great Queen Elizabeth II. Her death represents the passing...

“When sorrows come,” groaned Claudius in Hamlet, “they come not single spies, but in battalions.” Our world knows what he...

Rarely are men who are renowned in their time gifted with both intellect and a caring heart. Noam Chomsky is...

“Benazir Bhutto has been killed, and we want you live on BBC television straight away, please.” It was early morning...

Prince Dara Shikoh was the crown prince of the Mughal Empire and son and heir of Shah Jahan, ruler of...

Editors' Note: We are publishing this two-part series of a deeply personal and moving account of how scholar and former Ambassador...

Editors' Note: We are publishing this two-part series of a deeply personal and moving account of how scholar and former Ambassador...

On the last day of February this year, we lost Malaika. Our beautiful, noble, gentle, dog was run over by...

In the summer of 1971 when the Bengali uprising had built up wide-spread momentum and the security forces desperately tried...

After President Yahya Khan launched a military operation to crush the opposition, Bengalis who resisted were called “miscreants” – this...

Into 1971, there was one thing I knew for certain in East Pakistan: a tsunami of ethnic violence was heading...

Akbar Ahmed reflects on why he questioned General Zia-ul-Haq on his vision for religion, state and society – at an...

Akbar Ahmed recalls a time when he couldn’t resist questioning General Zia-ul-Haq on his vision for religion, state and society...

Akbar Ahmed on the many faces of Bradford - including the ones that are conveniently ignored

Akbar Ahmed talks to veteran Bosnian politician Dr. Haris Silajdzic on European civilisation and Islam

Akbar Ahmed in conversation with Haris Silajdzic - founding father, politician and public intellectual of Bosnia-Herzegovina

Concluding this series about the film, Akbar Ahmed reminisces about Sir Christopher Lee - as a lead actor, a champion...

Jinnah was a struggle, from its conception to its making. Akbar Ahmed remembers two Jimmy's, Shashi Kapoor and all those...