Man has an innate tendency to gravitate towards nature. Somehow, the raw beauty of nature touches the very inner core...

Retirement is that stage of life when a working person looks forward to transition from the daily grind of work...

Last month the largest gathering of Pakistanis outside Pakistan took place in Atlantic City in the US. It was the...

Dead Man’s Prisoner is a fascinating novel by a former provincial bureaucrat of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. It addresses the despicable...

This place had not changed in forty years. Out of the misty haze of a hot summer afternoon, the silhouette...

In my life, I have lived in many diverse places; Miram Shah in North Wazirstan, Abbottabad, Alizai in Kurram, Pabbi,...

Syed Sher Shah was born around 1844 in the walled city of Lahore in Mohalla Sathan, Kucha Loon Chakhan inside...

The early history of King Edward Medical College is inextricably linked with the inception of Western medical education in the...

It is a daunting task to draw a circle around Ejaz Rahim’s latest book of English poetry. Gardens of Secrets...

I am always amazed and frustrated at the increasing complexities of everyday gadgets. It is not only the newfangled gizmos...

Nothing sums up the dilemma of the Western occupiers of Afghanistan more than an oil painting by Elizabeth Thompson, Lady...

Anjum Altaf is a respected Pakistani academic who has delved deep into the poetry of the 19th-century Urdu poet Asadullah...

This is a story of two medical colleges that refused to die. It took some hard work on the part...

DR. SAYED AMJAD HUSSAIN REMEMBERS PESHAWAR’S EMINENT EDUCATIONIST H.M. CLOSE

DR. SAYED AMJAD HUSSAIN on the story of Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital and his own memories of it

Dilip Kumar aka Yousaf Khan, a Bollywood legend and a humanitarian par excellence, died on the 7th of July, 2021,...

Nathiagali is a charming little mountain town nestled in the Western fringes of the Pakistani Himalayas. At 9,000 feet, it...

We consider here a fascinating book by an equally fascinating English writer of Pakistani background. Javed Amir is a retired...

Abdullah Yusuf Ali’s translation and exegesis (tafseer) of the Quran has been a standard for over 87 years. It is...

This is the story of a man who was born into privilege, excelled in studies, served as a high government...

Hard as it may be for some to believe, the first radio station in undivided India was established at Peshawar!...

Since time immemorial, humans have faced the challenge of physical, cultural, or psychological divides placed in their way. They have...

It is a tale of two bridges. One, a real one and the other a bridge on a movie set....

The Bard of Avon had famously said that a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. Occasionally,...

Water carriers (called behishti, maashik and saqqa) are men who carry water in animal skins on their backs. In an...

In 1949 George Orwell published his novel with an unusual title 1984. The book centers around the consequences of totalitarianism,...