The ‘communal’ impulse and justification of India’s partition (into two separate nations) was originally formed by Hindu nationalists and was adopted much later by the likes of Jinnah, writes Nadeem F. Paracha. The narrative ...
In his 2011 book Pakistan in Search of Identity, veteran historian, Dr Mubarak Ali, wrote that the roots of Islamic radicalism in South Asia can be found in what came to be known as the ...
Nadeem Farooq Paracha in this article discusses the evolution of Hindu-nationalism in India since the founding of Arya Samaj in 1875 to the modern-day blurring of the ‘line between the militant Hindutva ideology of RSS ...
Back in 1983, when I was a teenager, a British band called the ‘Fun Boy Three’ had a hit single in the UK. I got to know about it when I saw a video of ...
In a show of simplicity and austerity, the PM flew to the US on a commercial Qatar Airways flight like an ordinary passenger. Pakistanis residing in DC were overjoyed…
Nadeem Farooq Paracha explains how Muhammad bin Qasim and Aurangzeb became the heroes of Pakistani nationalists after the independence while Akbar was ‘largely treated with disdain’. “Mughal king, Akbar, who was king of a vast ...
Pakistan Flag The Pakistan flag was approved and adopted on August 11, 1947 during the session of the country’s first Constituent Assembly. The green in the flag stands for the country’s Muslim majority; whereas the ...
Nadeem F. Paracha satirizes the inner workings of a ‘true urban middle-class, pious, iPhone, pizza, frantically tweeting’ Pakistani’s brain. One can now safely suggest that the days of the Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari ...
In this article, Nadeem F. Paracha takes you to the journey that Karachi went through over the course of centuries. Here’s a history of Pakistan’s largest, and world’s 6th largest, city from the time Alexander ...
