“Even though Islamic Socialism borrowed heavily from Muslim Modernism, it saw the latter as an entity that was enacted to deal with colonialism but needed a new dimension in the post-colonial setting”, Nadeem F Paracha ...
I had never heard of Cappadocia until we began to plan our trip to Turkey. A couple of friends insisted that we include it on the itinerary. After spending a week in Istanbul, and taking ...
Like every other year along the Line of Control, the Indian army had vacated the mountain peaks before winter. So did Pakistan as it was part of an understanding due to the unwelcoming weather. But ...
In 1965 a lengthy paper titled, ‘Peasants and Revolution,’ caused a considerable storm in the international academic circles associated with the left. The paper was authored by Pakistani social scientist and historian, Hamza Alavi. The ...
The Tahaffuz-e-Buneyad-e-Islam bill recently passed by the Punjab Assembly gives unprecedented powers to the provincial government to censor or ban books by barring any publisher, editor or translator from printing or publishing any text that ...
by Khalil Yousaf I never really understood why people did not take the time to park properly. I had just driven alongside a row of cars parked in front of the May Fair Hotel in ...
On the 16th of December, 1971, Lt.-Gen. A. A. K. Niazi surrendered the Eastern Garrison of the Pakistani army to Lt.-Gen. Jagjit Singh Aurora before a cheering crowd of hundreds of thousands of Bengalis in ...
The central idea of Raza Rumi’s riveting book Being Pakistani: Society, Culture and the Arts is embroidered with the pluralist nature of Pakistan’s identity shared by the South Asians at large and which goes beyond ...
As the current pandemic magnifies existing inequalities, a malnourished girl child, under-educated since childhood, turns into a under developed, physically and mentally marginalized person. Historically the world has witnessed women bear the brunt of force ...
A year ago, I arrived in the United States as a fellow in the Hubert H. Humphrey program wanting to learn different aspects of life in this country, the issues that matter to me most. ...
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