EVENTS
Establishment of Muslim Rule
Though Muslims entered South Asia with the conquest of Sindh by Muhammad bin Qasim and then with the annexation of Punjab by Mahmud Ghaznavi, yet the real credit of the establishment of Muslim rule in the region goes to Shahab-ud-din Muhammad Ghuri. The Ghurids had ...
Ancient Empires of the Sub-Continent
Some of the earliest relics of Stone Age man were found in the Soan valley near Rawalpindi, dating back to ...
Physical Features of Indus Men
Four types of skeletons are found from archeological remains of Indus Civilization. Proto-Australoids or Caucasic people were in majority. They ...
Origin of Indus Civilization
Indus Civilization was one of the oldest civilizations. It covers the area of 500,000 square miles, which spread in the ...
Early Cultures of Indus Civilization
Some of the earliest relics of Stone Age man in the subcontinent are found in the Soan Valley of the ...
ARTICLES
Quran and Science
The only book that is authored by God on the earth is Al-Quran was revealed in Arabic to Prophet Muhammad (SAW) over a period of twenty-three years ending in 632 A.D., the year he passed ...
Success or Suicide?
With an odd and rather anomalous birth of seventeenth amendment consequent upon the deal, a strange marriage of convenience between ...
Kashmir Dispute
According to the partition plan the princely states, which numbered about 584, and of which the state of Jammu and ...
Crippled Democracy
In his present speech of July 12 2002 Pervez Musharraf made politicians the targets of his criticism. He also listed ...
Islamic Republic of India – Islami Jumhoria Hind
Indians Muslims have never been Pakistanis and Bharati Hindus have never been Indians. All the self-importance the Bharat has been ...
War Not the solution to our problems?… Hah!
It is an established fact that throughout the course of history, only two classes of men have ever uttered the ...
Agra Summit: A Failure?
Agra Summit ended up in an anti-climax. Before and during the meeting of President Musharraf and Prime Minister Vajpayee, there ...
Dr. Annemarie Schimmel: A Great Scholar-Hermit
A leading German Islamicist, orientalist, scholar, literary figure, prolific writer and an authoress of more than hundred books who was ...
Musharraf – Can he do it?
I am a cynic. I have this deep distrust of authority, in any shape, form or style. From the bottom ...
Which Rumor Do You Subscribe to?
May you live in interesting times. The Chinese are a very perceptive people. The curse they defined is subtle in ...
UNO: United Nations Organization or United No Objection
Just a few years back, when I was in my early classes, I was taught that after the World War ...