Tag: east

The stability and therefore the success of any national government depends on the district and subdivisional level of administration. When ...

Russia, Iran, and China are considered to be the forces pushing for a multipolar global system where power is not ...

Sheikh Mujib Ur Rahman was at once the most iconic, controversial, hated and loved political leaders of Pakistan. Born on ...

When the Prophet of Islam (peace and blessings on him) returned to Makkah at the head of a large victorious ...

Just 24 years after its birth, Pakistan suffered the most tragic and horrific shock of its short history when the ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Imagine a spacious house in which four brothers live with their families in a traditional joint-family system. Each brother has ...

Over the last two decades or so, I am looking at the erasure of how some 3-400,000 stranded human beings ...

The whole 19th century and the first half of the 20th century were characterised by the battle of ideas raging ...

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

Over five decades have passed since East Pakistan seceded, after terrible carnage and a bruising civil war, marking the period ...

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

In the summer of 1971 when the Bengali uprising had built up wide-spread momentum and the security forces desperately tried ...

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

Into 1971, there was one thing I knew for certain in East Pakistan: a tsunami of ethnic violence was heading ...

I heard about Aijaz Ahmad – who passed away at 81 earlier last month in the United States on March ...

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

The relentless attack by Russia on Ukraine has reproduced scenes for anyone familiar with 21st century news: intense bombardment, resistance ...

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

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

Might I start this article with a question: “Is there any thesis or art work on the Miani battle of ...

Sitting in his clinic, attending to his patients on one of his busy days in a long-lost era twelve centuries ...