By Rasul Bakhsh Rais
The decision of the apex court of Pakistan to convict an incumbent prime minister on charges of contempt of court and sentencing him ‘till the rising of the court’ is more than symbolic. It should be regarded among those decisions in our history, which generated great political consequences rather than resolve them. Continue reading
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By Nasim Yousaf
“The last remedy under the present circumstances is that one and all rise against this conspiracy [partition of India] as one man. Let there be a common Hindu-Muslim Revolution…it is time that we should sacrifice…in order to uphold Truth, Honour and Justice.” ? AllamaMashriqi, 1947
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Mahir Ali
“PEOPLE from both sides behaved like beasts,” says Sarjit Singh Chowdhary, a retired brigadier, offering an indisputable overview of the events in Punjab during the year that India was partitioned.
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By Yaqoob Khan Bangash
Just a few days ago we observed the anniversary of the passing of the ‘Lahore Resolution’ of 1940 by the All India Muslim League which asked for ‘independent states’ to be carved out of the north-west and north-east of India which had Muslim majorities. By the end of British rule, however, just one ‘Muslim’ state was carved out of the Raj, Pakistan, with two wings, separated by a thousand miles of Indian territory.
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By Farhan Bokhari
Pakistan’s annual Resolution Day on March 23 was hardly a moment of celebration for the South Asian country. Remembered in the memory of a landmark resolution passed by the Muslim leaders of India in 1940 to carve out a separate country for themselves, the event was followed by the creation of Pakistan in 1947.
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Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D.
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Pakistan and its moral, political and intellectual culture is being ruined and destroyed by those rulers who share nothing in-common with the masses. The princely rulers and the ordinary folks live far part in conflicting time zones, unable to find a meeting ground, and people paying for their own pains and anguish under the false pretext of democracy. Continue reading
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By Tanvir Ahmad Khan
In the beginning was the word –– in the lower case –– that created myths of compelling power and legends that provided the woof and warp of the culture of human communities. The world got industrialised and became modern but this substratum of civilisation was not discarded; only reinterpreted. Man did not live by bread alone.
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By Rasul Bakhsh Rais
Historians will not be surprised by the revelations of Younis Habib in the apex court about the role of the military, the president — a bureaucrat elevated to that position because of his loyalty — and intelligence Continue reading
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Jawed Naqvi
MUGHAL emperor Aurangzeb and Maratha warrior Shivaji were arch foes, but why? Colonial historians followed by their Indian and Pakistani protégés have projected the rivalry as a religious one.
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Nilofar Ahmed
IT is said that Hazrat Aisha was six years old when her nikah was performed with Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Makkah, and nine years old when she moved in to live with her husband in Madina after Hijra.
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