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As promised in cityscape last week we present here an excerpt from a description of the Red Fort as left for us by Bashir-ud-Din Ahmad in his 2,400-page magnum opus Waqeyaat-e-Daar-ul-Hukoomat-e-Dehli 'Events at the Capital City of Delhi' in an ...

Shahjahanabad built by Shahjahan. That is what Shahjahanabad actually means. Just as Tughlaqabad means built by Tughlaq and the meaning of Akbarabad? Well, built by Akbar. In this last excerpt translated from Bashir-ud-Din Ahmad's magnum opus on ...

After the gap of last week when more pressing issues had compelled us to write about the senseless cutting of trees on Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Marg that runs between Sectors A and D in Vasant Kunj, we return to the excerpts from the 1919 publication ...

* Minority communitys boycott due to separate electoral listsBy LAHORE: The upcoming elections are not the first that have been boycotted by the Ahmedis rather these are the eighth consecutive polls being boycotted by the minority community.

India has experienced dramatic relief on the terrorism and insurgency fronts over the past years, if one goes by fatality statistics and other outward manifestations of these disturbances alone. From a peak of some 5,839 terrorism-insurgency1 linked ...

Over the last two weeks this column has focused on Waqeyat-e-Dar-ul-Hukoomat Dehli (Events at the Capital City Delhi) by Bashir-ud-Din Ahmad. We had planned to carry excerpts from the book over the next two weeks as well, but something rather ...

Online threats and pressure from religious and radical groups forced the Kashmir Valley's first all-girls rock band to disband but it has not dampened the spirits of many who want to pursue a career in music and singing. This was evident from the ...

About a fortnight ago this column had drawn attention to the fairly large, some would even say vast, number of rare manuscripts, memoirs, diaries, maps, drawings, photographs, journals, news pieces, posters, pamphlets and other published and ...

Coming from a conservative family that shuns music, Aki learnt the art from friends outside Kashmir. A whiff of fresh air after the Praagaash controversy in Kashmir. Battling social boycott threats, Kashmir's lone DJ (disk jockey) Athar Iqbal Mir ...