Memoir

There was a direct linear connection between Bhutto’s death and my near fatal accident. I will illustrate the principle of...

On September 21 2022, just a couple of days after the National T20 tournament had ended, the Multan International Cricket...

In my first conversation with Nawab Akbar Bugti, he cited Ibn Khaldun. I was curious as to where the Nawab...

In 1947, my mother Tahirah and her eldest sister Amina were the only two members of their family who migrated...

A Baloch woman wearing her bridal jewelry could walk alone from one end of the Balochistan province to the other...

My father Maj Gen Syed Shahid Hamid was one of the first Muslim officers on the faculty of the Staff...

Dr Akbar Ahmed will be writing his memoirs for TFT about his eventful life and multiple pursuits. This is the...

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

After taking over the reins of power in 1993, the PPP government under the premiership of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto established...

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

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

The Movement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD) was formed in 1981 with eleven parties as its components, with the goal...

My friend and cousin Syed Tamezul Hasan passed away last month. We came from the same small town, Sahaswan, Badaun,...

I was born to a poor father, who hailed from a Katcha village, known as Kitchi Baig Saryab. He was...

Editors' Note: We are publishing this two-part series of a deeply personal and moving account of how scholar and former Ambassador...

Editors' Note: We are publishing this two-part series of a deeply personal and moving account of how scholar and former Ambassador...

In the summer of 1971 when the Bengali uprising had built up wide-spread momentum and the security forces desperately tried...

After President Yahya Khan launched a military operation to crush the opposition, Bengalis who resisted were called “miscreants” – this...

Into 1971, there was one thing I knew for certain in East Pakistan: a tsunami of ethnic violence was heading...

If I were to sit down and make a list of ten people who have impressed and influenced me most...

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...

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

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

Truth is stranger than fiction, wrote Mark Twain. Fiction was written within plausible facts, he went on to explain, whereas...

The story told here is of my father; an individual representing the lives of an entire generation on both sides...