Majid Sheikh
The one question repeatedly asked is: “Just when was Lahore founded?” It seems this has invited several ...
Published 28 Apr, 2024 07:30am
With the defeat of the armies of the Lahore Darbar in 1849, the East India Company (EIC) took over in March of that...
Published 21 Apr, 2024 06:57am
Every time I pass by the ‘Lal Khoo’ inside Mochi Gate, the place where Guru Arjan was imprisoned and where ...
Published 14 Apr, 2024 06:42am
Few people in Lahore, especially of old walled city, are revered and adored more than an exceptionally simple...
Published 07 Apr, 2024 06:45am
For the last 144 years an abiding mystery has bugged not only historians, but also the people of Lahore. Even...
Published 01 Apr, 2024 07:03am
Our dear country was created on religious considerations, while across the line drawn by the British was an alleged...
Published 31 Mar, 2024 07:07am
Outside Lahore’s Mori Gate once flowed the River Ravi, which curled around the old walled city heading westwards...
Published 26 Mar, 2024 09:38am
We often wonder just why our city and the land was invariably ruled by foreigners. They stole our wealth, murdered...
Published 10 Mar, 2024 07:24am
As one learns about the unimaginable scale of murders, especially of children, in occupied Palestine by European...
Published 05 Mar, 2024 07:09am
In the thousand-year history of the Punjab, few rulers have been able to match the ability and guile, let alone the...
Published 18 Feb, 2024 07:19am
We all praise Akbar and Shah Jehan for building the walls of Lahore, and the Lahore Fort and the Shalimar Gardens, ...
Published 11 Feb, 2024 07:48am
The 1958, Lahore Fort archaeological survey revealed a host of evidence in the shape of pottery dated at 4,500 years...
Published 04 Feb, 2024 07:09am
On 29th of March 1849, the throne of Lahore was captured by the East India Company soldiers. As the fighting ended...
Published 28 Jan, 2024 07:17am
Many moons ago as I descended my hotel lift in Wiesbaden in Germany, an impressive person was also going down. Being...
Published 21 Jan, 2024 07:21am
As the world genuinely feels threatened by climate change, it is a shame that Lahore is, probably, the world’s ...
Published 14 Jan, 2024 07:05am
As the Zionist Israeli colonialist aggression against the Palestinians continues for the 90th day, the total...
Published 07 Jan, 2024 07:13am
Recently the ‘caretaker’ government decided that the Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA) law would be changed and...
Published 31 Dec, 2023 07:04am
As one drives along the Grand Trunk Road, popularly called the ‘GT Road’ or ‘Generali Sarak’, from the Wagah...
Published 24 Dec, 2023 06:29am
Archives record our past. It helps to build the path to the future. Last week the death of the poet, activist and...
Published 17 Dec, 2023 05:41am
It is amazing how over centuries writers, poets, journalists, scientists and scholars of every shade have been...
Published 10 Dec, 2023 07:03am