Tag: Partition

In 1920, Gandhi launched his Non-Cooperation Movement against the British Government. This was the beginning of the politics of agitation ...

Recently the name of Mughal Gardens in Rashtrapati Bhavan (the official residence of the President of India) has been changed ...

The Pakistan Peoples’ Party, a political group ever so apologetic of its Sindhi identity, recently ran its local governments election ...

While this quotation comes from a story about the experiences of a Jewish American businessman during the fervour of the ...

I regard India, Pakistan as one country, only temporarily separated by that historical British swindle called Partition, but are sure ...

Pakistan is going through an economic crisis that is exacerbated by the impact of the climate crisis caused floods, and ...

The time of awakening has finally come; long-lost brothers have finally found the culprits who divided them. They lived peacefully ...

My aunt's father was my grandfather, the late Dr Kailas Nath Katju, who had been the Governor of Odisha and ...

Sometimes I wonder that if I were to be teleported to the time when some historical event was in progress, ...

As the world welcomes 2023, Pakistanis begin the new year with the same question in mind. It is neither a ...

During the Fall 2022 semester, I had the pleasure of taking a course titled “The World of Islam,” taught by ...

Manto was a madman in the grip of the pen which he could not put down, which made all his ...

I strongly believe that the milestone of 200 years of Urdu journalism did not get the extent of attention that ...

In the long moments that divided a country into two, lives, dreams, families and parchments of history seemed to have ...

In collaboration with the Citizens Archive of Pakistan(CAP), Project Dastaan held the first screening of their film in Pakistan on ...

An eminent German philosopher, Emmanuel Kant, had defined enlightenment as 'The emergence of humanity from the self-imposed immaturity.' The enlightenment ...

The search for paradise on earth has always fired the imagination of scholars and dreamers, whether it is the Englishman ...

There is a mosque in Chaman village of Takhtbhai tehsil, in the district of Mardan, that was built by a ...

Thoha Khalsa would have been another nondescript albeit picturesque and peaceful village, if not for a blood-curdling event in 1947. ...

Last April, The Friday Times - Naya Daur published my original piece. It was received well when first released, but ...

By coincidence, two top former diplomats of India and Pakistan, who had almost brought the issue of Jammu and Kashmir ...

Introduction Iss waqt yun lagta hai ke kuchh bhi nahi hai, mehtaab na sooraj, na andhera na sawera are some ...

Broadly speaking, Pakistani historiography has tended to focus mainly on the country’s high politics, but a few have penned the ...

75 years back, at the time of the partition when there was bloodshed in the name of homeland, nation, and ...

In the district of Jhang is a tehsil called Shorkot. It is an ancient city once known as Sibipura, although ...

This article cannot start without mentioning the first female artist that Pakistan ever had. She, in turn, paved the way ...