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 ...
Maulana Zafar Ali Khan
Writer, poet, journalist and freedom champ, Maulana Zafar Ali Khan was born at Kot Mehrath, District Sialkot [Punjab] in 1873. ...
What a Laugh
I never really like Mr. Aziz, even before he was tied up as Prime Minister. He always seemed arrogant and ...
Dilemmas of South Asians
Dilemmas of South Asians. We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable ...
If 9/11 had not happened
So well the adage goes that necessity is the mother of invention. We find that 9/11 was essentially an urgent ...
Crippled Democracy
In his present speech of July 12 2002 Pervez Musharraf made politicians the targets of his criticism. He also listed ...
Indus Trade
Seals found from the remains of Indus civilization show that the towns were in contact with one another. It is ...
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 ...
Establishment v/s Bureaucracy
President Musharraf government seems to be losing grip over things. He is paying lots of attention to the NRB Chairman ...
Vedic Aryans
Indus valley civilization was replaced by village cultures of Vedic Aryans from Central Asia, who were virtually invaders in the ...
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 ...