The most conspicuous introduction of Major Ishaq Muhammad – the peasant leader and arch-dramatist who was born a hundred years ago today in Jalandhar – is that he was a revolutionary leader constantly at war with the Pakistani establishment. He was arrested in 1951 by the Liaqat Ali Khan government in the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case. […]
Fahmida Riaz’s daughter Veerta Ali Ujan has declined the presidential award that the government of Pakistan had announced for her late mother in protest against abduction and torture of journalists and writers. In a Facebook post. she said that accepting an award from the government on Fahmida Riaz’s behalf would be an insult to her […]
147SharesFahmida Riaz’s poem ‘Salaam Benazir’ in which she pays glowing tribute to the former prime minister has been translated by Tahira Naqvi. Salaam Benazir, what a grand life it was, No enemy could ever vanquish you Not a sorrow there was you didn’t endure, No injustice left not inflicted upon you Salaam, clouds darkened your […]