Tag: british

Days after the late monarch’s cosseted funeral, pipes and drums fade in distance; as now, it is time for the ...

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

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

Soniah Kamal is an award-winning Pakistani-American novelist, essayist and public speaker based in the US. Her first novel An Isolated ...

What is it that makes us nostalgic about the past – even though in its time it may have been ...

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

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

Sometimes we forget – or more aptly put, consciously ignore – the actual partitioning process that took place during the ...

Where are we headed? First, let’s consider how we got here. Pakistan is no stranger to uncertainty. It’s as if ...

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

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

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

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

A portrayal of Lahore is incomplete without a description of Miani Sahib, the eternal resting place of many of its ...

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

It was Ramadan in the year 1841 and Abdullah Khan Achakzai was probably wondering what tribulations he had fallen under. ...

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

My Life and Times is an autobiography of legendary Pashtun nationalist leader Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai (1907-73), commonly known as ...

Rashid Rana is one of Pakistan’s most celebrated artists, and is widely considered one of the leading artists of his ...

Lt Col Mohammad Mohyuddin Siddique Raja MC (Bar) belonged to the village of Dhok Qazian, which lies within the Salt ...

On the 12th of February 2022, I was at the Miani battlefield. This was the site of the British East ...

South Asian Islamic scholar and one of the pioneers of ‘political Islam,’ Abul Ala Maududi (d.1979), often described secularism as ...

There were a large number of Pathan Riasaten (kingdoms) in the Indian Subcontinent but only 21 survived the upheaval of ...

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

I wanted to write on the Miani battles, which were so pivotal in Sindh’s history. Going by a ‘first things ...

Millions of Afghan refugees, starting from the Soviet invasion of their country in 1979 and subsequent wars and upheavals, have ...