Tag: Soviet

At this year’s Lahore Literary Festival, I was approached by a group of six or seven college students immediately after ...

It so happened that I was reading the very readable WW2 memoir of Major Ishaq Muhammad on the 6th of ...

Maulana Bhashani, who was born 141 years ago on December 12 yesterday, was the most important leader of that Pakistan ...

It was the January of 2011. Deep winter in Waziristan and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s (TTP) leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, rode through ...

The vicious and horrific atrocities of September 11th, 2001, not only shook the world but also began a new chapter ...

“They may ring their bells now, before long they will be wringing their hands," said Sir Robert Walpole. The first ...

As a complete pull-out of NATO troops from Afghanistan drew near, there was apprehension in Pakistan – now proven false ...

It is very difficult to write about a very dear friend and comrade, especially with a close association spanning more ...

Imperialism, which finally died in Afghanistan last week, had actually begun to hiccup in the mid-1970s. Of this hiccupping, Vietnam ...