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Haroon Rashid SiddiqiThe Express Tribune |
History has a special liking for irony. Few lines illustrate this better than the remarks made by Robert Clive before the British Parliament in 1772:...
Across the deserts, a whisper still lives, the name of a healer sent to ease human pain. He was called Ibne Maryam, and wherever he walked, suffering...
History, when read through the official records of the British Raj, often appears neat and orderly. Files are precise, decisions seem reasoned, and...
In the grand lineage of Urdu poetry, if Ghalib represents the intellect and Iqbal the spirit, then Mir Taqi Mir is the very soul of the Ghazal. Often...
When I was a young teenager in the early nineteen-sixties, Urdu poetry came to me not as a discipline but as a discovery. It was the age when love,...
Khisht-e-awwal chun nahad memar kaj Ta Surraya miravad deewar kaj (When the builder lays the first brick crooked, the wall will remain crooked even...
Erroneously known as the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan in fact served as the battlefield of the world. Long before the name Afghanistan appeared...
Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. — William Gladstone The recent confrontation between the Lahore High Court (LHC) and the...
There is much to be learned from the great poets of our olden times. Mirza Ghalib, a spectacle of the early 19th century, and Hafiz Sherazi, a...
In the formative years of the 20th century, as the Muslim world grappled with colonial fragmentation and spiritual ennui, Allama Muhammad Iqbal...
Naghma hai gham ko bhi ae dil ghanimat janiye Be sada ho jayega yeh saz-e-hasti aik din Grief, too, is a melody, says Ghalib — something to be...
In the realm of human endeavour, one often speaks of “history” in sweeping terms — the rise and fall of empires, the movement of peoples, the...
Rau mein hai rakhsh-e-umr kahan dekhiye thame Nai haath bag par hai na pa hai rakaab mein (Ghalib) The steed of life is in full gallop - who...
This anecdote was once narrated by a Director of the Civil Services Academy, Lahore, to a batch of young CSP officers under training in the early...
The administrative steel frame of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) was first praised by British Prime Minister David Lloyd George in the House of...
Winston Churchill once said, "The price of greatness is responsibility." Listening to Donald Trump at the United Nations, one could not help but...
The youth do not grow discontented because they dream too much, but because their rulers dream too little. Across South and Southeast Asia, a striking...
The judiciary in the Subcontinent since Independence has carried the burden of great expectations. It was meant to be the final arbiter between state...
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it. — Maimonides There is a peculiar vulnerability that shadows...
Dekhna taqreer ki lazzat ke jo uss ne kaha Mein ne ye jana ko goya ye bhi mere dil mein he Ghalib Dr Azra Raza has over the last several years won...
As Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) marks 75 years of service with a ceremonial celebration at the Karachi Golf Club on 17 June 2025, it is not only a...
History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. — Mark Twain Karachi, a city not traditionally associated with seismic upheavals, has been...
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