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The most basic and most ancient purpose of painting was to record something (history ) in the pre-historic times. I agree to your suggestion, these paintings must be the recording of some ancient ritual in which they were using head-dresses and make-up and they wanted to convey the message to...

Unfortunately, there are many Hadith which are in conflict with Quran, even if they are so called Sahih Hadith they must be wrong if they are in conflict with Quran; this is because Prophet Muhammad PBUH never did anything contrary to Quran. According to Quran there are only two conditions in...

DNA studies on Pashtun population of Pakistan indicate that they are from Northern Iranian stock with about 10% of them having Greek markers. They are not a lost tribe of I. More info here: Theory of Pashtun descent from Israelites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia AFAIK, the only people who...

Would it not put us in the same condition as we are now? Isn't it the agenda of 'Empire of Chaos' to perpetuate the chaos? Isn't it the sad reality that at the time of supposed 'Afghan Endgame' we still feel so threatened that we are building a fence? Will those 9800 troops - JSOC operatives...

The real original Boko Haram were a pacifist organisation. Their conversion to a militant one is closely linked to US & Co.'s ambitions for the Nigerian Petroleum and a response to increasing co-operation between Nigeria and China. In fact, Pentagon has war-gamed a scenario where 20, 000 US...

David Crystal writes in his book 'How language works': An interesting problem arises in cases where there is a geographical dialect continuum. There is often a chain of dialects spoken throughout an area. At any point in a chain, speakers of a dialect can understand the speakers of other...

I am just amazed that how Indians have contribution in almost every aspect of past and present that defies belief; especially in religion they sometimes come with the most paradoxical idiosyncracies. I was only recovering of the shock of inclusion of Jesus Christ in Hindu pantheon that I got...

Obviously you have no idea what I was saying. By the way where did I mention Germany in my post? Enlighten me please :D

The biggest obstruction to the building of KBD is political mafia at provinicial level, which are quite powerful and can only be removed when first the country is further divided into smaller provinces, breaking their power to obstruct the projects which are beneficial to the nation as a whole...

Those outsiders - ISIS - pose no threat to an army as trained and well-equipped as Saudi Arabian army. The only threat that Saudi Arabia faces is from inside - an extremist militancy, but no militancy in the history of the world has been able to overthrow a government. OR A revolution from...

This is more or less a generalisation. History is replete with examples where less civilised societies were able to defeat far more superior civilisations. For example: Mongols beat the Persians and the Caliphate of Baghdad and then the captured China. Germanic tribes defeated the Western...

Slant Drilling with the approval of USA Kuwait, Iraq accused, had been slant drilling in to Iraq’s Rumaila oil fields. In addition, since the end of the war, Kuwait had hugely exceeded OPEC production quotas, costing, Iraq claimed, $14 billion a year, in addition to the $2.4 billion estimated...

@FaujHistorian Just a day ago you had a thread blessing Israel for it's state terrorism against Palestinians; now you are objecting to bringing a part of our history to Pakistan; something that will inspire the next generations of our airforce pilots. Obviously you are stooping too low to please...

We should try to develop our own shale gas reserves. The estimates of technically recoverable shale in Pakistan have jumped from 52 TCF in 2009 to 105 TCF in 2013.

Why is that guy so much geared up relative to those in the background? Are they soldiers from same military unit or different ones? Is that a camera on that guy's head? (I can also spot a mike!) Is there a live connection between him and some sort of command centre?

It's Ganja's own damn companies (or Kick-backs from foreign firms) which come as foreign companies, with exaggerated price tags for their services and then they send all the money out of Pakistan again because they are foreign; it's better than money laundering. It was told in a TV program...

There will be a continuous presence of Armed forces there. A road network - which was non-existent before 2001 - has been built and there is already infusion of money in health and education under the watch of armed forces. Integration will be the watchword in the coming days; it may be slow...

I remember, there was this guy - uneducated and doing some menial jobs - who returned from his employment in Makkah Mukarramah. He told that during his two years stay, he only visited the Bait-Ullah (kaaba) for a couple of times, because he did not feel a need to do so. But he professed himself...

Infact, it was the Muslims who gave the first big blow to Mongols in the Battlefield of Ain Jaloot. After that the Mongol had a mixed success vs. Muslims. They got scattered, retreated or converted. Lesson: Allah (SWT) does not change the condition of a people unless they want to change it...

Last time Islam had an existential threat was during the Mongol invasions of 12th century. Mongols destroyed the centres of our civilisation: Baghdad, Balkh, Bukhara and many more. But, something strange also happened during that time. The menace of Hashashin (Batiniyah, Khawarij) - a scourge...