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The crumbling glory of Sheikhupura Fort

The Sheikhupura Fort was built during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir. Although, there is no conclusive evidence supporting this, the Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri(Autobiography of Jahangir) mentions that the Emperor assigned the job of constructing the Fort to ....

Dulmial — a village with a proud heritage

At a time when most of our villages have lost their objects of antiquity to modernism, a few still sustain their heritage and the Dulmial village of Chakwal is one of them.Located at Kallar Kahar-Choa Saidan Shah Road, about 40km from Chakwal city, ...

Punjabi stage shows: Treasure buried in stereotypes

Every culture has their legends; a collective body of work that honours the genius that birthed it. This title is not always bestowed through popular vote, sometimes it is stumbled upon. You may be pondering why anyone would regard stage show comedies as genius ...

Khali Khoohan di Katha

Avtar Singh Billing is one of the leading fiction writers of the present geeration. Khali khoohaan di katta (The Story of Empty Wells) is his sixth nover In this work Billing takes the reader into his confidence . ....

The Metaphor Man

Bhagat Singh`s Birth Anniversary today: For some he is a thinker, for most he is a young bridegroom who chose to wed his death-bride. Bhagat Singh appeals beyong caste, creed, age......

Will change in medium of instruction improve

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, led by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, has changed the medium of instruction in public schools from Urdu to English from April 2014. The arguments put forward for this change in the medium of instruction were to bring public schools...

Pigeons, boundaries & streets

The foreword to Zubair Ahmad’s latest short story book Kabutar, Banerey Tei Galian is written by Mahmud Awan from Dublin, Ireland. It is titled Vailey Di Taaki Vich Jagdi Kahani. Mahmud Awan observes that thought contents of his first book culminate in his second book....

My Village

Name of my village is Kot Data which means “The Fort of the Philanthropist” in Punjabi. Name of the man who founded the village about 200 years ago has been forgotten by the local history but his reputation survives. He was a dacoit who settled down to....

7 things that make a Pakistani feel at home in India

A Pakistani driving license may not hold in India. But rest assured that a Pakistani’s road sense, cultivated through decades of weaving in and out of chaotic traffic, is exactly what one needs to be a great driver in India....

Lata Mangeshkar — the living legend Part I

Whatever is written about Lata Mangeshkar by various musicologists, it is a fact that I was a child when I first listened to her song “Aaye Ga, aaye ga, aaye ga, aaye ga aane waala, aaye ga” from the film ‘Mahal’. This film was released in 1949 with ...