Tag: History

Back in 2005, he was everyone’s famed cricket hero, the heartthrob of millions, and a philanthropist who built cancer hospitals. ...

After being ousted from power on April 10, 2022, Imran Khan has resorted to blaming the national institutions -- Pakistan ...

Curries had started appearing on the menus of London restaurants since 1773. In the early nineteenth century, community centers for ...

While condemning the recent suicide bombing that killed three Chinese nationals at the Karachi University, it is important to understand ...

The urban upper-middle class supporters of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) are making a mistake by comparing Imran Khan with Quaid-e-Azam ...

Constitution is not a mere lawyers’ document, it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit ...

On Thursday, the CSBE released the updated curriculum for the 2022-2023 academic year, which contained several unusual deductions. Most notably, ...

Since the publication of the first Urdu newspaper of India ‘Jam-i-Jahan Numa’ in 1822 till the invention of the first ...

The year is 2007. A charismatic Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland from self-exile. She has been warned of a ...

As curtains are drawn on the sordid saga of a hybrid regime, thrust upon the people of Pakistan supposedly by ...

Yes, you read the title correctly. This is the story of one of the most mindless incidents in the history ...

A speaker in a parliamentary system of governance is one of the most significant figures. No doubt before being elected ...

On April 14, 2018, COAS, General Qamar Javed Bajwa uncharacteristically expressed his desire to normalise relations with India. “It is ...

History bears witness to many things. Chief amongst them is the exploitation of the many by the few. Cloak this ...

Fiction is stranger than reality. It is a mirror to contemporary society, a vehicle to express the sufferings of humanity ...

The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, elected in 1946, and due to which Pakistan came into existence in August 1947, had ...

On August 20, 2008, two missiles fired from a US drone killed eight people in Wana, South Waziristan. This was ...

Ishtiaq Ahmed in his book Jinnah: His Success, Failures, and Role in History (Vanguard 2021) - which must be regarded ...

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

Some events seem to suck up the world’s supply of compassion - leaving many feeling suddenly abandoned. Russia has fought ...

It is a widely believed myth in Pakistan that Henry Kissinger threatened Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to make a “horrible example” ...

The Pakistan Day military parade was held at the Parade Ground today to mark Pakistan Day. Visiting Organisation for Islamic ...

آئینہ کیوں نہ دوں کہ تماشا کہیں جسے ایسا کہاں سے لاؤں کہ تجھ سا کہیں جسے بغض و حسد ...

Human being is not just a name given to a biological being with a body. In fact, humans are different ...

People have always dreamed about mixed realities based on their creative imagination and thoughts. The latest inventions have made their ...

I was a shy normal kid. Just a tad bit more curious, perhaps. But nothing about me was non-compliant. I ...