The writer holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK and works in Islamabad.
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are two of the 15 former Soviet republics that became independent after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. They are...
In the USSR, the 1980s began with big news. The Soviet armies had entered Afghanistan in the last week of 1979 on the pretext of a request by the...
Plenty of obituaries have appeared in newspapers and on social media, paying tribute to Gorbachev. He introduced major changes in the Soviet system...
In my last article, ‘Remembering 1977’ , I highlighted how the year 1977 became a turning point in Pakistan’s history. Within 40 days after...
The year 2022 marks 45 years since the fateful days of 1977. As the nation prepared to celebrate 30 years of its independence, the country that had...
The first half of the 1970s brought both good and bad news for education in Pakistan. The good news was that the Bhutto government had a plan to...
As Pakistan celebrates its platinum jubilee at 75, it is time to take stock of the country’s achievements and losses in various fields. A country...
The writer holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK.Coming across any good book that enlightens our understanding of the world and its...
Our failures as a nation have been on full display for long, but lately they have taken on a new proportion. Most of these failures are a collective...
This is the last part of my series of columns about my father – M Rashad Mahmood – who was born in Bombay in 1932 and completed 90 years of his...
