This author spent his formative years within the walled city of Lahore. Recently, he visited Shah Alam Market on an...

Much has been written about the Indian period film Mughal-e-Azam and much more shall continue to be written. The world...

The story narrated here is nearly true. The names, location and the timeframe have deliberately been masked to make the...

The famed Rohilla clans were mainly drawn from Pashtun tribes. They migrated from their barren surroundings in the Hindukush and,...

I hope I see you before I depart this world! This entreaty was from Asif, my friend of 55 years,...

This is the seventh and last part of my travelogue to Naran, Gilgit and Naltar valleys. It consists of impressions...

Geological forces are immense, perhaps beyond calculation. Science is only now getting certain about what moves the tectonic plates under...

Early in 1979, the people of Lahore learned that Antonio Inoki, the best known wrestler in the world at the...

In the previous article, I had described our stay in Gilgit. The story continues here with our drive to the...

In the previous article in this series, the journey from Babusar Top to Gilgit was recounted. This part of the...

In the previous part of this travelogue, our drive from Naran to Lulusar Lake and upto the Triple Point ahead...

The present write-up is on a family trip that this author undertook to the Kaghan, Indus and Naltar valleys this...

One cannot help but begin with the question asked by the Bard as his melancholy protagonist, Hamlet, contemplated death and...

In recent years, our country has witnessed a surge in internal tourism. Popular summer tourist sites in Pakistan’s northern areas...

Labour strikes in the modern era are traced back to the 19th-century struggles for an 8-hour workday. However, the history...

In Lahore, the city of saints, one of the most revered Sufi-poets is Shah Hussain, whose short poems in the...

Is Pakistan on the brink? This question agitates the mind of her citizens. It haunts all those who have sacrificed...

A portrayal of Lahore is incomplete without a description of Miani Sahib, the eternal resting place of many of its...

This is a sad tale. A tale of an unfortunate woman. A tale to reaffirm that life is not fair;...

Yes, you read the title correctly. This is the story of one of the most mindless incidents in the history...

Pakistan’s regional languages have a rich literary heritage, producing some towering poets whose verses depict sentiments and idioms of the...

Lahore is a city of saints. Tombs of Data Ali Hajveri, Madho Lal Hussain, Bibi Pak Daman, Shah Jamal, Mauj...

The first part of this article described the massacre of Muslims in August 1947 in Rupnagar, East Punjab. In this...

One pleasant reward of writing for an online magazine like the one you are reading right now is the wide...

The ‘Islamic Golden Age’ in erstwhile Khorasan and Muslim Spain lasted from circa the mid-8th century to the end of...

The story told here is without consideration of politics, bitterness or religious allegiances connected to the events that led to...