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27th day of December, 2007 – I can still hear the echoes of the gunshots that reverberated around…
27th December 2007, Benazir Bhutto was assassinated around 6 pm local time, on her way back after a successful public gathering at Liaquat National Bagh, Rawalpindi. Its aftermath is still an instructive lesson for Pakistan, the critical…
Benazir Bhutto will always be a symbol of women empowerment in the Muslim world
Benazir Bhutto, the first and the only female democratically elected as the Prime Minister of Pakistan at the age of 35, not only once but twice, was assassinated on December 27, 2007, ten years back. This great lady was born in Karachi and…
Remembering Ibrahim Joyo– the literary legend who never asked royalty for his books
There are only a few such personalities which are born once in a century and one of them is Ibrahim Joyo. He is known as the father of Sindhi Literary Movement, who died on November 9, 2017 at the age of 102. This literary genius,…
The Flying Dutchman: A legendary ghost ship
The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship doomed to forever sail in the oceans. It is an apparition of the ship of the captain Hendrick van der Decken. Around the 17th-18thcentury people and sailors started to aware people about the…
Remembering the martyrs of Bangladesh
December 16 might seem like a normal day to anyone,just like any other day in the calendar. But this day is very important to every single person from Bangladesh.After 9 months of struggle we got our own identity on this very day in 1971.…
Pashtun lands: Political violence and social disarray amidst cultural richness
Socially connected, culturally the same but politically fragmented, and yet the manifestation of the political fragmentation resulting in the same chaos and same reign of violence. This is land of Pashtuns; spreading across from east of…
