Miani Sahib: Resting Place Of Heroes
A portrayal of Lahore is incomplete without a description of Miani Sahib, the eternal resting place of many of its ...
Friday, May 20, 2022
Tag: british
Last Of The Indian Civil Service (ICS)
The Indian Civil Service (ICS) was a fascinating institution with distinct values and beliefs. It came into existence under the ...
Uprising: 17 Ramadan, Afghanistan’s Liberation And The Memory Of The Battle Of Badr
It was Ramadan in the year 1841 and Abdullah Khan Achakzai was probably wondering what tribulations he had fallen under. ...
Rashid Latif: The Master’s Voice
If I were to sit down and make a list of ten people who have impressed and influenced me most ...
Reading Abdul Samad Achakzai In The 21st Century
My Life and Times is an autobiography of legendary Pashtun nationalist leader Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai (1907-73), commonly known as ...
Rashid Rana’s Journey To The Sitara-i-Imtiaz
Rashid Rana is one of Pakistan’s most celebrated artists, and is widely considered one of the leading artists of his ...
Born To Be Brave – Col Siddiq Raja’s Journey From African Battlefields To The Rawalpindi Conspiracy
Lt Col Mohammad Mohyuddin Siddique Raja MC (Bar) belonged to the village of Dhok Qazian, which lies within the Salt ...
The Fall Of Sindh To The Company: A Defeat With Many Names
On the 12th of February 2022, I was at the Miani battlefield. This was the site of the British East ...
Theology In Service Of Secularism: The Case Of John Locke And Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
South Asian Islamic scholar and one of the pioneers of ‘political Islam,’ Abul Ala Maududi (d.1979), often described secularism as ...
The Family Heritage Of Sahabzada Yaqub Khan
There were a large number of Pathan Riasaten (kingdoms) in the Indian Subcontinent but only 21 survived the upheaval of ...
Bani Gul: Building A New Town In The Kurram Valley
In my life, I have lived in many diverse places; Miram Shah in North Wazirstan, Abbottabad, Alizai in Kurram, Pabbi, ...
War Memorials For Them, Dheveris for Us: In Search Of The Battlefields Of Miani
I wanted to write on the Miani battles, which were so pivotal in Sindh’s history. Going by a ‘first things ...
When South Asian Muslims Fled To Find Refuge In Afghanistan
Millions of Afghan refugees, starting from the Soviet invasion of their country in 1979 and subsequent wars and upheavals, have ...
From Artillery Barracks to Anarkali: Thee Early History Of Lahore’s King Edward Medical College
The early history of King Edward Medical College is inextricably linked with the inception of Western medical education in the ...
Painting The Fall Of Sindh: Depictions Of The Battle Of Miani
Might I start this article with a question: “Is there any thesis or art work on the Miani battle of ...
Children Of Gowalmandi
Truth is stranger than fiction, wrote Mark Twain. Fiction was written within plausible facts, he went on to explain, whereas ...
Of Disillusioned Men And Their Existentialist Nihilism
During a recent appearance on a TV show, controversial journalist and ‘intellectual’ Hassan Nisar stated that the country needed a ...
Parity Not Partition: The Vision That Drove Mr. Jinnah’s Politics
I came across Dhruv Rathee’s video that equates Jinnah with Savarkar based on communalism. Rathee is young YouTuber with a ...
An Ill-Fated Merger: The Pitfalls Of Sacralising The Secular In India And Pakistan
Sacralism is the merger of Church and State wherein one is called upon to change the other. It is not ...
The Chained Khan: Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai’s Struggle For Democracy And Social Reform
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants,” wrote Isaac Newton in a letter ...
Maududi’s Leviathan: From A Political Ambition To A Cultural Pursuit
The American historian Richard Wolin in his book The Seduction of Unreason wrote that after being disillusioned by the collapse ...
Defying Colonialists And Dictators: What PkMAP Learned From Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai
On the 25th of October 1956, 49-year-old Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai was produced in the district court of Lahore. He ...
Farewell To Colonial Past: Barbados Is Declared World’s Newest Republic, Queen Elizabeth II No Longer Head Of State
Barbados has declared itself a republic, officially removing Queen Elizabeth II as head of state and replacing her with Dame ...
Chitral’s Role In The Liberation Of Gilgit-Baltistan
Chitral and Gilgit-Baltistan have much in common. Although Chitral is culturally and linguistically linked to Gilgit-Baltistan, it has never been ...
What’s In A Name: The Strange Process By Which The Subcontinent’s Two Large Countries Came To Be Known As India And Pakistan
In August 1947, British India was partitioned into the dominions of India and Pakistan. The western half of Pakistan comprised ...
Eulogy For A Troubled Generation
The story told here is of my father; an individual representing the lives of an entire generation on both sides ...
News and views which are not fit to print.
ECP De-seats 25 Dissident PTI Punjab Lawmakers Over Defection
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has announced...
SC Verdict On Article 63-A Is A Case Of Constitutional Rewriting
Much has been written about the Supreme Court’s...