The Speech of Mr. Sris Chandra Chattopadhya (Opposition to Objectives Resolution, Constitutent Assembly of Pak, 12 March 1949)

This is a historic speech and a document that posterity will re-examine. Seldom has one piece of legislation caused so much trepidation. Thanks to…

Eighteen years later…

It took eighteen years to locate a friend. Much like a star, the moon, a constellation and an ancient river my friend R has…

Journalism

My writings for the Pakistan weekly The Friday Times My articles published by The News, Pakistan My writings for DAWN newspaper My articles for…

Who sees inside from outside? Who finds hundreds of mysteries even where minds are deranged? See through his eyes what he sees. Who then…

This is such a fine piece – thoroughly delightful and thought-provoking. There is an underlying unease through the text and a hint of sadness…

Beyond the barriers

The work of Ram Gopal Varma and his associates is ushering in a new era of Bollywood cinema If there is one individual and…

Published in The Friday Times last week: A new collection of translated short stories reminds us how Urdu literature needs to connect with a…

Sumegha Gulati, Hindustan Times Email Author October 10, 2009 Humayun Khan, 77, stood outside the imposing mahogany doors of the Irwin Hall inside Bishop…

Adjust Font Size The Friday Times The Friday Times Friendship of India-Pakistan by Saira Wasim – Gouache on wasli (2001) Syed Abid Hossain (India),…

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Haligoli, (2001), a miniature by Saira Wasim – collection of Robert Roder Peshawar, a city destroyed by terrorism IDPs returning to their homes Wherever…

>By JOHN FREEMAN The boundlessness of the Internet always runs into the hard fact of our animal nature, our physical limits, the dimensions of…

LAHORE: Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a “great leader” and was unfairly “demonised” by India for his role in the Partition, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)…

63 years ago, a grave mistake was committed by a handful of politicians and other notables behind the closed doors of North Indian drawing…

The devolution saga Wednesday, July 22, 2009 By Raza Rumi The debate on the scrapping of Musharraf’s devolution experiment cannot hide or ignore two…

Umbrella organization “Hum Pakistani” launched in Lahore to provide relief to IDPs  Pakistan faces grave challenges today.  Over 1.5 million Pakistanis have been displaced…

Loveable Murree

  I was recently asked to write where I would spend my summer. For a few minutes I kept my anguish at Pakistan’s situation…

Stranger to History, By Aatish Taseer

Ziauddin Sardar’s review for The Independent is worth a read: Aatish Taseer grew up in Delhi with his Indian mother, a Sikh journalist. The…

Cascading Chandni

By temporal guess or foreguess she a work in progress they aiming to regress antediluvian lashes travel from Chand’s back to the cobwebs in…

Whatever shrine I go to

Another readable piece by Dr Sher Zaman Taizi This poem in ghazal form is very simple and direct. It starts with a direct address…
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