LONDON: On April 13, 1919, a large group of Punjabis protesting against British rule gathered in the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar. They were incensed at the arrest of two of their leaders, and for 24 hours the city had been
Published 23 Feb, 2013 11:03pm
FEW forms of conflict are so damaging to a country as a prolonged civil war. By 1939, when Franco’s forces had finished mopping up the last Republican resistance in Spain, more than half a million lay dead and some of the
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LONDON Last month I had a private dinner in Kabul with Amrullah Saleh, who at that time was President Hamid Karzai`s...
Published 03 Jul, 2010 12:00am
REHMAN Baba, “the Nightingale of Peshawar,” was an 18th-century poet and mystic, a sort of North West Frontier...
Published 10 Mar, 2009 12:00am
The BBC recently celebrated its success in drawing ten million viewers to the final episode of the latest series of...
Published 26 Aug, 2008 12:00am
The BBC recently celebrated its success in drawing ten million viewers to the final episode of the latest series of...
Published 26 Aug, 2008 12:00am
The two previous instalments of this article were published on Tuesday and Wednesday. LONDON: His initial response...
Published 13 Dec, 2007 12:00am
The first instalment of this article was published in Tuesday’s Dawn LONDON: Over the following two decades he...
Published 12 Dec, 2007 12:00am
LONDON: Sixty years ago, four months after British rule had come to an end in India, the Nizam of Hyderabad, then ...
Published 11 Dec, 2007 12:00am
LONDON: Six years after 9/11, throughout the Muslim world political Islam is on the march; the surprise is that its...
Published 23 Sep, 2007 12:00am
