Barbed wire, security check-posts, questioning by the security personnel asking for proof of identities – one might be forgiven for thinking it is an entry point to the beseiged Gaza strip in Palestine. But this is Mariabad—the Hazara locality in Quetta, Pakistan. The sectarian violence, bomb blasts, targeted killings caused fear in the city have […]
While history is a convenient tool to absolve one from sin and inculpate another in the imagination of people, recently the Mughal history of India has been widely recounted in both scholarly and non-scholarly circles to prove and disprove certain ideological notions. The British colonial overlords were the first to misrepresent Mughal history in order […]
Padre Aldino Amato, an Italian-born Dominican friar who served as the last foreign missionary with the Faisalabad Diocese, has died on the 1st of May. Padre Amato was a long serving and much loved educationist and developmnt pioneer. The friar had been on ventilator for more than a week after having contracted Covid-19. He was […]