Tag: west

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

He could have been a hero in any romantic feature movie. Physically extremely smart, elegant and handsome with a soft ...

Just 24 years after its birth, Pakistan suffered the most tragic and horrific shock of its short history when the ...

Dur e Aziz Amna’s book succeeds on many counts, its beautiful prose, its readability and most importantly her distinct, strong ...

The Truman Doctrine, which gave impetus to the practice of 'regime change’ in countries that were perceived as being against ...

Since time unknown we are telling our people through schoolbooks, newspapers, Friday sermons, Jihadi rallies, dramas, songs and movies that ...

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

Pakistan is a strange land. It is the only place in the world where you can find the most talented, ...

November of 1968 to February of 1969, were perhaps some of the most fiery times in the often troubled history ...

A lawyer based in Delhi with a good law practice was recommended by the Indian Supreme Court Collegium in November ...

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

In his 2015 book The Militant, author and researcher Muhammad Amir Rana published dozens of interviews that he conducted of young ...

Our prayers and blessings for the departed soul of the late great Queen Elizabeth II. Her death represents the passing ...

The whole 19th century and the first half of the 20th century were characterised by the battle of ideas raging ...

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington has created a clash of scholarship ...

In the summer of 1971 when the Bengali uprising had built up wide-spread momentum and the security forces desperately tried ...

Into 1971, there was one thing I knew for certain in East Pakistan: a tsunami of ethnic violence was heading ...

On the 27th of March, addressing a large gathering of his supporters, the Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan waved ...

Pakistan launched its first-ever National Security Policy (NSP) earlier this year, which purports to be citizen-centric and claims that the ...

The brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine is now proceeding with full ferocity. It is resulting in bloodshed, terror and chaos ...

South Asian Islamic scholar and one of the pioneers of ‘political Islam,’ Abul Ala Maududi (d.1979), often described secularism as ...

The title of this article must have had a reincarnation in the Subcontinent, because this is what the people of ...

The 50th anniversary of the fall of Dhaka, arguably the most painful milestone in our history, resurrected a vexed question: ...

Sitting in his clinic, attending to his patients on one of his busy days in a long-lost era twelve centuries ...

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 ...