Celebrating Vaisakhi in Pakistan
Hassan Abdal: Gurdwara Panja Sahib comes alive with the arrival of Sikh yatrees
Photos by Saiyna Bashir
The annual festival of Vaisakhi or Baisakhi is a centuries old spring celebration observed by farmers across northern India, particularly in the...
"We have faced partition twice"
'Lorie' poster: on Sarhadi's office-living room wall
- Sagar Sarhadi
A vocalist from Lahore meets a lost Marxist from Baffa, Abbottabad, in the capitalist film industry of Bollywood
By Sehyr Mirza
It was the presence of a guest in his family's...
"No two nations are as alike as Pakistanis and Indians"
"People on both sides of border want to meet each other because they share same culture, history, language, values and rituals.It's absolutely necessary to enter into a visa free regime, because people love each other due to the...
Other thread was closed as I pressed reply, so here it goes.
The reason is that when this anthem was written by Rabindranath Tagore, the communal harmony of subcontinent hadn't been totally shattered by British and RSS nazis yet. It was written when Quaid-e-Azam was still member of Congress...
A few points if you could just clarify, in order of you mentioning them (apart from the emotional outbursts)
I understand both your countries had an agreement to not build permanent structures inside the so called 'red' and 'green' lines, i.e. between your differing perceptions of LAC. That's...
That percentage is still pretty high even, and Xinjiang+Xizang make little difference as most of the minorities are those from eastern parts. it's quite instructive that your more unique minorities are mostly native to provinces west of the hwang ha river.
manchus, hui, zhuang are also...
Wow, I'm ashamed to say that zionist version of history bears resemblance to some of the revisionist historians in my country that talk about India the same way.
Palestineans were a people, with their own culture and history, inhabiting the land of Palestine for thousands of years. and there...
good job. always nice to hear of stolen treasures returned. all old world countries should assist each other in this regard, and try to get them back as peacefully and patiently as possible. hopefully most will be brought back, but undoubtedly some won't want to return it as a matter of pride...
nationalism is such a hilarious thing when you get down to its core. in the name of your nation's pride, a local thousands of years old indigenous culture of himalayas is suppressed to give way to an ideology created in Germany 150 years ago. when China itself abandons that ideology in favour of...
sorry to say but kings of ancient and medieval india never ventured out of the subcontinent. there was already so much wealth here that they had to fend off foreign, savaging beggars for over a thousand years. the exception being south Indian influence in SE Asia, but that was more cultural than...
Who are the fish out of water? Just compare distance from capitals or where majority of population are respectively concentrated.
Islamabad to Ladakh(, Baltistan) ≈ 284 miles
Beijing to Ladakh ≈ 2,429 miles
19th century Map of Qing empire, China's last dynasty...
alright. lets continue on with this, shall we? how about India frames a few more Afzal Guru-like innocents, forcing them under threat of death to work for intelligence. then drumming up bogus charges related to a false flag event coordinated by the establishment. hanging him in cold blooded...