Tag: History

In Pakistan, as in much of the Muslim world, the Ottoman Emperors are idolised, and often portrayed as God’s gift ...

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

MNA Rohail Asghar regularly wears the dhoti and is known to prefer it. During a visit to Islamabad club, he ...

A mindful reader, prior to reading the next paragraphs, might ask to summarise William Jones’ profile before his voyage to ...

In 1984, student unions were banned by the Ziaul Haq dictatorship. The 1968 movement in Pakistan that later overthrew Ayub ...

Fifteen years later, the wound caused by Benazir Bhutto's murder has not yet fully healed. Her passing left a void ...

In my early days in university, I endeavoured to participate in the class discussion about US incursions into various countries ...

Around 1400 years ago, a young man brought warring clans together by settling the dispute on who would place the ...

Strong nations rely on their political, judicial and military leadership to act in good faith for the greater good of ...

Canadian physician William Osler, often called the father of modern medicine, once said, “No man is really happy or safe ...

When I was the Chief Justice of Madras High Court ( 2004-2005 ) a young Tamilian lady lawyer named Maithili ...

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

Fashion designers known for designing revealing clothes for actresses were preaching their version of Islam when it came to the ...

Born in Multan in 1290 to Sultan Ghiasuddin Tughlaq, the founder of the Tughlaq dynasty in India, Muhammad Tughlaq grew ...

I have been doing research on the culture and heritage of Pothohar since 1998, when I was a student of ...

Yasir Masih is a 30-year-old man working in a large-scale organisation in Pakistan as a sanitary worker. He has been ...

On October 8, 2022, Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa addressed a batch of graduating cadets, and commented, ...

The literary tradition of the Urdu language has been romanticised and written about by so many people throughout the ages, ...

A mountainous land along the border to two modern ‘states’, where a certain furious and primitive lot, called ‘tribes’ live, ...

The Western press is abuzz with reports that give an impression that Russia is losing its edge in its war ...

Since its inception in 1947, the process of accountability in Pakistan has devolved into a cycle of political victimisation and manipulation. Over ...

Amidst the hustle and bustle of the Walled City, nestled in the confines of Greater Iqbal Park, lies the National ...

The birth of Pakistan saw the 1948 Kashmir conflict and since then, the country has been in a state of ...

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

Lad Malika was the first wife of Sher Shah Suri, who had defeated Mughal Emperor Humayun to bring an end ...

Lahore is a cage with opened doors. It lets you fly, loiter around, or take flight. No matter what you would ...