Memory

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

For dwellers of the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi seeking respite from scorching heat, the road adjoining the GT...

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

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,...

Summer always reminds me of family holidays. In our case, it was the road trip up the Grand Trunk (GT)...

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

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

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

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...