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 ...
Basic Ethics in Islam
Truthfulness Truthfulness is basis of all ethics and virtues. There is a truth of words, a truth of action and ...
Two Nation Theory: The Myth, The Reality
One lesson I have learnt from the history of Muslims. At critical moments in their history it is Islam that ...
Whats The Use?
My feelings about this country and what is going to become of it alters drastically from day to day. Some ...
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 ...
Indus Trade
Seals found from the remains of Indus civilization show that the towns were in contact with one another. It is ...
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 ...
Indus Script
Indus script is believed to be invented around 2500 BC. It was uniformly used throughout the Indus era. A bizarre ...
Fall of Dhaka 1971
Introduction Bangladesh is a state in an ancient land. It has been described by an American political scientist as "a ...
Maulana Zafar Ali Khan
Writer, poet, journalist and freedom champ, Maulana Zafar Ali Khan was born at Kot Mehrath, District Sialkot [Punjab] in 1873. ...
The Story of Kargil
In the summer of 1999, a 73-days military conflict was fought at Kargil unveiling new insights into an asymmetric conflict ...