History

It was around 1939-40. Subhas was the head of Congress Party, but a serious conflict arose and a new group...

June 1962, a federal prison in Atlanta USA: it was a bright sunny morning and all the prison inmates were...

It’s been 21 years since al-Qaeda terrorists carried out 9/11. To what extent can that be traced back to a...

One of the prime examples of history being moulded and misinterpreted in order to provide political justifications is the historiography...

125 years ago in August 1897, the might of the British empire was challenged by the Pakhtun tribes around the...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War and was the last leader of the Soviet Union, died at the age...

In August 1965, Pakistan’s 12th infantry division under the command of Major General Akhtar Hussein Malik launched Operation Gibraltar in...

In the Bronze Age, societies around the globe were dominated by men. Even today, in much of the world, that...

At the height of the campaigns in the deserts of Africa during the Second World War, Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck,...

Dear Prime Minister, in the not-too-distant future you have to take a momentous decision: the toughest that any Pakistani prime...

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

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

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

A writer passes through various emotional experiences. Sometimes, there is no inspiration. Occasionally, they are not sure what to write,...

Khanspiracy While commenting on PTI’s stunning victory in the recently concluded Punjab Assembly (PA) by-elections, almost all analysts agree that...

The establishment of Murree and the development of the small cantonments along the 60 km mountain range towards Abbottabad was...

43 years ago in April 1979, a former prime minster of Pakistan, Z.A. Bhutto, was executed for allegedly ordering the...

In 1995, I appeared for the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education(FBISE) exams for overseas Pakistani students in the...

There are many popular Sufi shrines in the district of Sujawal. However, the shrine of Shah Yaqeeq Bukhari is the...

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

Freeing Theology In the 19th century, when the idea of ‘Islamic modernism’ first emerged to address the challenges posed by...

Mr. Imran Khan welcomes the Judiciary’s decision on Article 63-A as it positively impacts his politics, especially in Punjab. Political...

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

“Takkar is in the throes of war, Bullets are flying everywhere, and the trees are shedding their leaves, And Takkar...

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...