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Anjum Qureshi, a romantic rebel

Apoet of vigorous accent, Anjum Qureshi was born to a banker and was raised in a conservative environment, conventionally designed for upbringing of middle class girls. She remembers the weekly rituals of oiling of.........

Dr Abdus Salam's bust unveiled at IAEA Headquarters

A bust of Nobel Prize winning physicist Dr Abdus Salam was unveiled at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Headquarters in Vienna on Wednesday by IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano, a Foreign Office (FO) handout said today.. ...

Noor Jehan: The queen of millions of hearts across generations

One day in September 1965, when Pakistan was in the throes of a war with our neighbouring country and adult conversations circled around air-raid shelters, paratroopers, sirens, blackouts and victories, listeners switched on the radio to hear ...

Why Is the RSS Afraid of the Revolutionary Punjabi Poet Pash?

After objecting to Rabindranath Tagore, Ghalib and writings on M.F. Hussain, the RSS ideologue Dinanath Batra now wants a poem by Pash, which depicts the general oppressiveness of society, removed from textbooks. ....

From Kabir to Nanak

Namdev (1270 – 1350) was the son of a tailor. He was born in Sattara division (Mumbai) and his mother tongue was Marathi. He got into bad habits in his youth and began to rob and steal. One day he was standing outside a temple and......

A belief in unity: The life of Abdus Salam

The name lay waiting, until he was born and all his life, Abdus Salam wore it as a mantle. Almost nine decades ago, Mohammad Hussain, a school teacher in Jhang, had a dream that his...

Afzal Randhawa is no more

FAISALABAD: With the passing away of Afzal Ahsan Randhawa, the country in general and the Punjab literary world in particular, has lost a great poet, novelist, playwright and a short story .....

Pak Punjabi writer Afzal Randhawa dead

AMRITSAR:Punjabi literary world on Tuesday mourned as an eminent Pakistani Punjabi poet, story writer and novelist Afzal Ahsan Randhawa, who was born in Amritsar on September. ...

Punjabi’s most credible advocate

InAfzal Ahsan Randhawa, rightly described as the pioneer of Punjabi fiction, is no more, bringing to end an entire tradition .....

Madam Noor Jehan’s War

Naveed Riaz continues his interview of Malika-e -Tarannum Noor Jehan about the 1965 war, in a conversation never before released to the public. Transcribed and translated by Aima Khosa...