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The Rise and Demise of Muslim Modernism The breakup of Pakistan in December 1971 produced a ‘New Pakistan.’ ZA. Bhutto, ...

125 years ago in August 1897, the might of the British empire was challenged by the Pakhtun tribes around the ...

Anyone familiar with desi cuisine would recognise the unique combination of spices that goes into it: zeera (cumin), turmeric (haldi), ...

What is it that makes us nostalgic about the past – even though in its time it may have been ...

Sometimes we forget – or more aptly put, consciously ignore – the actual partitioning process that took place during the ...

After watching the classic South Pacific, I was convinced that the South Seas, with their golden sunsets, were the closest ...

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

The Indian Civil Service (ICS) was a fascinating institution with distinct values and beliefs. It came into existence under the ...

Lt Col Mohammad Mohyuddin Siddique Raja MC (Bar) belonged to the village of Dhok Qazian, which lies within the Salt ...

German philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche writes, “Everyone wants to be pre-eminent in this future – and yet death and the stillness ...

For many in Pakistan, there is one reason for the country’s perennial laggardness – corruption. These Pakistanis blame the cupidity ...

As Delhi and Mumbai police have begun investigations into the content found on the app "Bulli Bai" after complaints about ...

In his hugely influential book Orientalism (1978), Edward Said — a founder of ‘post-colonial studies’ — demonstrated how the West ...

16th of December 1971: General AAK Niazi receives a telegram from President Yahya Khan which reads: "You have fought a ...

India’s versatile Bollywood industry has not only entertained people but has also worked as a powerful medium to broadcast social ...

The story to prepare this study plan goes like this: after having worked in the development sector – designing, managing, ...

Jaipur and Benaras have been invariably accredited as seats of scholarship. Both princely states afforded refuge to the calligraphers, poets, ...

In the first week of November 2021, the COP26 gathers in Glasgow to tighten the loose ends of the Paris ...

An Indian Navy submarine was prevented from entering Pakistani waters last Saturday by the Pakistan Navy, according to the Inter ...

My interest in the Indian Prisoners of War (PoWs) held captive in Italy during the Second World War was aroused ...

The body of a 38-year-old Pakistani man named Imran Kamran, who reportedly died as a prisoner in Indian custody this ...

Some Indian media outlets have come under sharp criticism once again for their reporting on recent fighting around the Panjshir ...

In 1947, as the British left the Indian Subcontinent, having divided it into two countries, many Indians and Pakistanis couldn’t ...

Journalist and editor Fahad Shah, writing for The Kashmir Walla, has described in detail the last moments of veteran Kashmiri ...

Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has expressed the view that the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is currently in a state ...

Ziyad Faisal on the legacy of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and its electrifying impact on Muslim thinkers in colonial India