Tag: british

Sustainability is the new buzzword. In the larger scheme of things, the word broadly means the ability to maintain a ...

Terrorism can be found anywhere but it was quite a surprise when a British servicemen was charged with it as ...

I regard India, Pakistan as one country, only temporarily separated by that historical British swindle called Partition, but are sure ...

Sometimes I wonder that if I were to be teleported to the time when some historical event was in progress, ...

When studying African literature, this quotation from Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart sticks out in my mind: “When they came, ...

Recently, the 225th birth anniversary of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, the greatest of classical modern Urdu poets, was celebrated in ...

The famed Rohilla clans were mainly drawn from Pashtun tribes. They migrated from their barren surroundings in the Hindukush and, ...

In an exclusive question and answer for British Vogue, supermodel Helena Christensen shared her thoughts on success, style and fashion. ...

I saw the all-time epic Gone with the Wind in Karachi in the late 1960s. It glorified the way of ...

The Company’s entry into India had begun with the Battle of Plassey in Bengal in 1757. The Company’s forces were ...

The events which followed the death of the sixth great Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707, are well known. Every high ...

Last April, The Friday Times - Naya Daur published my original piece. It was received well when first released, but ...

(I) An old oak tree in my neighborhood made me cry. I live in the Oakhill area in Austin, Texas ...

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 ...