Kismet Konnected Bashir Ahmed

Posted on December 3, 2009
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Raju Jamil That cloudy day of June-1961 gave a weary look due to a mild heat spell which was telling on the faces of the scores of Government officials and diplomats lined up along side President of Pakistan General Mohammad Ayub Khan at Karachi International Airport. All these people were there to receive Lyndon Baines […]

1971: A Blot of Shame

Posted on November 30, 2009
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M.P. Bhandara (Editor’s Note: This is the second in our series of lessons to be learnt from the events of 1971. This particular piece was written by the late M.P. Bhandara, then member of the Pakistan parliament, for Dawn in 2005. The intensity of the sentiment on stranded Pakistanis remains equally valid today.) There is […]

Islamia College Peshawar: Modeled after Aligarh or Deoband?

Posted on November 23, 2009
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Aziz Akhmad Islamia College Peshawar, or ICP for short, is one hundred years old. That is, if you count from the year the idea of the college first sprouted in the minds of its founders, in 1909. The work on the building started in 1912 and, within a short period of time, the main college […]

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