Tag: ayub

History is the greatest evidence and witness. Therefore, the victors and powerful are always scared of it. They love it ...

Strong nations rely on their political, judicial and military leadership to act in good faith for the greater good of ...

Canadian physician William Osler, often called the father of modern medicine, once said, “No man is really happy or safe ...

Erasing Histories and the Formation of Narratives When the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan was ousted in the ...

Qalandar, a fictional character, is Mohammad Shehzad’s brainchild. From the powerful to the poor – all visit his aastana (monastery) ...

November of 1968 to February of 1969, were perhaps some of the most fiery times in the often troubled history ...

The now decade-old tussle between Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) is a political ...

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

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

The 1980s is the decade when Pakistan’s social fabric was completely torn apart by the self-declared reformer, General Zia-ul Haq—a ...

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

The favourite pastime of the chattering classes in Pakistan is blaming corruption for all the ills in our society. It is ...

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

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

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

Sukkur is my beautiful hometown, and I am deeply in love with it. The city is situated on the right ...

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

The 50th anniversary of the fall of Dhaka, arguably the most painful milestone in our history, resurrected a vexed question: ...

It is that time of the year again when we second-guess 70 years of collective wisdom and start debating a ...

The PML-N is perhaps the country’s largest ‘big tent’ party. Big tent parties absorb members from various diverse (and even ...

Today in 2022 we have amongst us a person who holds a unique set of political records. He is the ...

Sacralism is the merger of Church and State wherein one is called upon to change the other. It is not ...

16th of December 1971: General AAK Niazi receives a telegram from President Yahya Khan which reads: "You have fought a ...

Brothers were separated. Both the Eastern and Western wings of the country were stained by blood. Relations between them changed: ...

Maulana Bhashani, who was born 141 years ago on December 12 yesterday, was the most important leader of that Pakistan ...

On the 25th of October 1956, 49-year-old Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai was produced in the district court of Lahore. He ...