Memory

On the last day of February this year, we lost Malaika. Our beautiful, noble, gentle, dog was run over by...

The smell of henna-filled hands clad in cloth or plastic shoppers, to prevent it from dripping and coloring the walls....

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

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...

“First, when I started using drugs, it was because I was not able to sleep at night. I would hear...

This place had not changed in forty years. Out of the misty haze of a hot summer afternoon, the silhouette...

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

The southern part of the historic Pashtun lands possess a fertility in producing revolutionary leaders that has no parallel. Among...

The leader of a major religious party; a former princely ruler; a major feudal grandee; a leftist intellectual; a Baloch...

Translator’s note: Today marks the 70th anniversary of the untimely assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of...

October this year is special for those in the Indian Subcontinent who profess to be on the Left and have...

This is a story of two medical colleges that refused to die. It took some hard work on the part...

DR. SAYED AMJAD HUSSAIN REMEMBERS PESHAWAR’S EMINENT EDUCATIONIST H.M. CLOSE

DR. SAYED AMJAD HUSSAIN on the story of Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital and his own memories of it

Dilip Kumar aka Yousaf Khan, a Bollywood legend and a humanitarian par excellence, died on the 7th of July, 2021,...

Nathiagali is a charming little mountain town nestled in the Western fringes of the Pakistani Himalayas. At 9,000 feet, it...

This is the story of a man who was born into privilege, excelled in studies, served as a high government...

Hard as it may be for some to believe, the first radio station in undivided India was established at Peshawar!...

Robert Owen (1771 – 1858), a founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement, was born in Wales 250 years...

My father used to love taking us to a lovely bakery in Clifton to order our birthday cakes when we...

It is a tale of two bridges. One, a real one and the other a bridge on a movie set....

The Bard of Avon had famously said that a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. Occasionally,...

Water carriers (called behishti, maashik and saqqa) are men who carry water in animal skins on their backs. In an...

Never was a name more suited to its owner: Nafees she was, in person and personality, in character and constancy...

ROSA LUXEMBURG WAS THE PRESCIENT SOCIALIST WHO FORESAW THE BARBARIANISM OF THE PRESENT, WRITES RAZA NAEEM