At the end of a long street, deep inside Lahore’s Shahalami bazaar, lies a mausoleum – a modest domed structure fitted inside a mosque. Some boast that the bazaar, which attracts traders from all over ...

NOOR Jahan, Mughal emperor Jahangir’s wife, loved Lahore and in one of her Persian couplets has passionately expressed her endearment: I have bought Lahore by paying for it with my life, I have given ...

LAHORE: Lahore’s urban landscape is better than Tehran because of planning practices set in place by the British colonisers, Dr Taraneh Yalda said on Saturday. She was presenting a paper titled ‘From ...

No history of Lahore, from this point onwards, will be considered complete without acknowledging its debt to this book The historian’s job is unenviable. He must deromanticise historical narratives, ...

I left Lahore towards the end of the first week of the state of emergency declared on Saturday 4 November 2007. My experience then was that the "Pakistani street" was still not quite rising. At that ...

Why Is Myanmar’s Military Bothering to Hold an Election? After years of negligence and a lack of serious preservation efforts, the historic buildings and facades of Lahore’s old city are being rescued ...

South Asian fiction has clearly understood the assignment. Emerging from the socio-political anxieties of a people with a shared and continuing history of conflict and trauma, much of recent South ...

One is constantly learning and one should always keep learning. At 67, I can claim to know much more than I did when I was 17 but, like all those wise men in the past who devoted themselves to finding ...

Ajoka Theatre will premiere its latest production, Lawrence in Lahore, tomorrow (Monday) at the Ali Institute, Ferozepur Road, Lahore. This bilingual play, written and directed by Shahid Nadeem, ...