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What is it that makes us nostalgic about the past – even though in its time it may have been...

The heartfelt agreement in Nashmia Haroon’s voice when one gasps at the detailed work affirms that one is still alive...

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

Broadly speaking, Pakistani historiography has tended to focus mainly on the country’s high politics, but a few have penned the...

The strip of land between India and Pakistan is called the Wagah-Attari border. This is No Man’s Land. On either...

Although it is impossible to summarise the complexity of women’s resistance in Pakistan in a single text, let alone multiple...

His life was to be played out in Makhachkala, but fate ultimately landed him in Lahore, in a country which...

There is a fascinating episode in Anna Karenina, featuring two upper class Russian women, who are shown having a curious...

Much like Rome, Lahore too was not built in a day. The sprawling city as we know it today did...

عمران خان کے چیف آف سٹاف، شہباز گل نے حال ہی میں اے آر وائی پر جان بوجھ کر،د انستہ...

The creation of Pakistan as a separate sovereign state is far too complex a political phenomenon and historical idea to...

North India’s Persian- and Urdu-speaking aristocracy and literati, known as the Ashraafia or noble-born of putative foreign ancestors, was overly...

75 years back, at the time of the partition when there was bloodshed in the name of homeland, nation, and...

آٹھ سال کا عرصہ لگ گیا، 150   سماعتیں ہوئیں، 100  مرتبہ کیس پر التوا لیا گیا، تین چیف الیکشن کمشنروں...

This article cannot start without mentioning the first female artist that Pakistan ever had. She, in turn, paved the way...

In the district of Jhang is a tehsil called Shorkot. It is an ancient city once known as Sibipura, although...

On its 75th independence anniversary, Pakistan faces acute crises in the realm of politics, economics and institutional structure of the...

In March 1987, I sat for my final year Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) exams. Pakistan Studies was the last exam....

The most terrible blot on our country’s fair name is the injustice perpetrated against Pakistan’s tiny Ahmadi community which has...

Sometimes we forget – or more aptly put, consciously ignore – the actual partitioning process that took place during the...

As I feel thoughtful about the past and future of Pakistan, 75 years after its independence, a video of a...

The novel Rohzin, or The Melancholy of the Soul, by Rahman Abbas, features Mumbai (previously Bombay) as the protagonist where...

Ancient battles echo through the chambers of history, not just in the corridors of History or English departments at universities,...

Ancient battles echo through the chambers of history, not just in the corridors of the History or English departments at...

The cemetery of Syed Manochar Shah, now popularly known as Syed Manchar Shah Ghazi, is located on the Shikarpur Bypass....

Over the last two decades or so, I am looking at the erasure of how some 3-400,000 stranded human beings...