Asma Mirza The video to the right is from BBC urdu and is making runs on Internet these days. It shows the Independence Day events of August 14, 1947. One can see rare glimpses of people and events here including Mr. Jinnah, Lord Mountbatten, Liaqat Ali Khan, Fatima Jinnah, Lady Mounbatten etc.The video does not […]
Adil Najam Today is May 12. Today marks the first anniversary of the carnage in Karachi. Today is the day when the resolution on the restoration of the Supreme Court judges was to be presented in Parliament. Ominously, even eerily, today also marks the 15th death anniversary of the Pakistan’s pre-eminent poet of political protest, […]
Nadeem Omar This set of photographs from F.E. Chaudhry depict the news journalist side of Chacha‘s portfolio. In February 1961, Queen Elizabeth II, toured India, Iran, Nepal and Pakistan on her first ever tour of countries outside Europe. She arrived in Pakistan on 11th February, and was received at the airport by Govenor, Nawab Kalabagh […]
