To be in Lahore in March evoked ruminations about the related commonalities and contrasts between 1940 and 2023. For instance:
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The concept and edifice of Pakistan deserve — in the tumult and torment of conditions today — reverential respect for each shade of opinion.
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Five decades on, Javed Jabbar highlights reasons why the loss of East Pakistan in 1971 is still a subject of considerable debate.
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An assortment of cultural interventions by the state, the flag-bearers of religion, and modernist forces have enabled Pakistani...
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Cataclysmic events as well as multiple and diverse factors on a global scale shaped the world in which the struggle for Pakistan.
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Compendium, catalogue, personal narrative and panoramic survey, a new book is a feast of facts about film music from Pakista...
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Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah had a progressive, visionary streak of extremism rooted in non-violence, civility and respect...
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In practical terms, reality comes before theory, for a theory seeks to ‘explain’ what already exists. Like gravity which existed
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