Harking back: As life moves on and on, we ignore our layered past As Lahore experiences a massive ‘destructive’ experience of past historic sites in the name of ... Published 15 Dec, 2025 05:52am
Harking back: Destroy – rebuild – conserve: Which is Lahore’s direction? On the famous stage of the old walled city’s Mochi Gate ground stood some of the greatest men and women of the... Published 07 Dec, 2025 06:13am
harking back : Fears for famous Nila Gumbad and parking plague In 1928 when the riots against the Simon Commission Report started, outside Anarkali Bazaar at Nila Gumbad, the... Published 30 Nov, 2025 06:39am
Harking Back: Mughal ruler who wished his minister be thrashed Can you imagine the ruler of a country – a Mughal emperor – throwing out his finance minister and then asking ... Published 23 Nov, 2025 07:58am
Academic Razi Abedi passes away LAHORE: Academic and writer Prof Razi Abedi passed away after a protracted illness here on Saturday. He was 92... Published 16 Nov, 2025 05:47am
Harking back: How Ashoka killed his brothers to attain the throne Lahore for over 700 years was a Buddhist city, only for the entire population to be murdered and burnt to the ground... Published 16 Nov, 2025 05:47am
harking back: Chandragupta and the first mint that was set up in Taxali It might come as a surprise to many that the now missing ‘Taxali’ gateway was almost two thousand years ago... Published 02 Nov, 2025 06:36am
harking back: Babur, the Mughal invader, and why he destroyed Lahore It has always been a point of concern that of the seven times Lahore has been destroyed, just why did Babur do it ... Published 26 Oct, 2025 06:57am
harking back: The ever-changing Lahore and our Aryan history It is disturbing to the average mind of Lahore when one learns that nearly 60 per cent of the old walled city... Published 19 Oct, 2025 08:13am
Harking back: Cricketing woes … and the heroes of Zaman Park This piece is not about the recent troubles in and around Zaman Park of Lahore and our incarcerated cricket hero but... Published 05 Oct, 2025 07:09am
Harking back: Riverbeds and ancient reasons for border changes Do we really know about ourselves? As a people we are well over 20,000 years since settling on the riverbanks, let... Published 28 Sep, 2025 04:20am
Harking back: How Lahore’s culinary scene turned ‘red hot’ It might surprise many a reader that the initial Mughal rulers of Lahore had never seen a red ‘chilli’, or even ... Published 21 Sep, 2025 05:38am
Harking back: 102 bullocks, two elephants pulled Lahore’s first train The Lahore Railway Station, historic that it is, has scores of amazing incidents related to it. Each one tying into... Published 14 Sep, 2025 07:23am
harking back: Of graveyards, lost monuments and historic destruction A fortnight ago as I roamed the streets of old walled Lahore, I sat down with a ‘hakeem’ inside Bhati Gate. He... Published 08 Sep, 2025 06:19am
Harking back: Archives disaster … or do we know who we are? To my mind the most important historic undertaking in Lahore, in the Punjab and for that matter in Pakistan, is the... Published 01 Sep, 2025 04:42am
Harking Back: The once ‘mud’ grave of slave Sultan Aibak Last week I was reading about how the African slaves of the USA were treated. With each page the unbelievable horror... Published 24 Aug, 2025 08:11am
harking back: Floods and famines that are fast changing our lives As we study the origins of Lahore, it is clear that the city developed because of the famines and floods that hit... Published 18 Aug, 2025 05:33am
Harking back: A faint hope of having the world’s finest archive If there was a person as far removed from literary archives of the Punjab, it surely was Maharajah Kharrak Singh. ... Published 11 Aug, 2025 05:49am
harking back: Skull of a patriot and the butchers of Lahore and Sialkot As one explores the endless details of the history of Lahore – it’s people, place, things and faces as Carl ... Updated 03 Aug, 2025 11:41am
Harking Back: Lahore’s precision knowledge that moved to greatness Once the Arabs after their 7th century religious ‘awakening’ spread in every direction, it was interesting to note that the highly Published 29 Jul, 2025 10:05am
