History

A provincial governor has resigned; the citizens of the province are distraught. The governor’s selfless service to the province evokes...

Three great luminaries of Pakistan’s superior judiciary are Justice Alvin Robert Cornelius, Justice Dorab Patel and Justice Bhagwan Das, ironically...

Curries had started appearing on the menus of London restaurants since 1773. In the early nineteenth century, community centers for...

Probably reaching its height in the tug of war in Pakistani power politics, a demonstration of the vulgarity of state...

Sacralising the Secular The shift from pre-modern societies that were deeply rooted in religious beliefs and rituals, to modern ones...

On the 26th of April, a woman suicide bomber blew herself up near a van carrying Chinese teachers on the...

Troy is the legendary city of Homer’s Iliad, the location of the fabled Trojan War which provided the literary bedrock...

The Indian Civil Service (ICS) was a fascinating institution with distinct values and beliefs. It came into existence under the...

On 9 April 2003, three weeks after the US forces had invaded Iraq, an armoured engineering vehicle of the US...

It was Ramadan in the year 1841 and Abdullah Khan Achakzai was probably wondering what tribulations he had fallen under....

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

Lt Col Mohammad Mohyuddin Siddique Raja MC (Bar) belonged to the village of Dhok Qazian, which lies within the Salt...

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

On the 12th of February 2022, I was at the Miani battlefield. This was the site of the British East...

Jiyala (جیالہ) is an Urdu word meaning a passionate devotee. It is often associated with diehard supporters of the Pakistan...

A car drives down a dusty road in Sargodha district and stops at a little village. From the car alights...

There were a large number of Pathan Riasaten (kingdoms) in the Indian Subcontinent but only 21 survived the upheaval of...

Imagine a head of state who has completed a staggering 70 years in the job, visited over 100 countries in...

We consider here an important work by a Pakistani American scholar on the Mujadidi Sufi networks that spread after the...

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

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

I wanted to write on the Miani battles, which were so pivotal in Sindh’s history. Going by a ‘first things...

At the time of Pakistan’s creation in 1947, the only established student organisation was the Muslim Students Federation (MSF), the...

Millions of Afghan refugees, starting from the Soviet invasion of their country in 1979 and subsequent wars and upheavals, have...

We all know about the great Mughal Empire that ruled over the Indian Subcontinent from 1526 AD to 1857 AD....

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