Majid Sheikh
As Pakistan and India have been through a week-long high-tech skirmish, which many ‘experts’ believe the Chinese...
Published 18 May, 2025 07:52am
The ‘troubles’ of Pahalgam made a startled Indian acquaintance message me that “when will this madness end. I...
Published 11 May, 2025 08:03am
Every Lahori knows about McLeod Road, the road that leads from The Mall at GPO right up to the railway station. ...
Published 04 May, 2025 06:17am
While on a week-long holiday in a traditional cottage on the beautiful Ullswater Lake, I sat down to ‘bung out’...
Published 27 Apr, 2025 06:25am
LAHORE: The affairs of the Walled City Lahore Authority (WCLA) last Thursday took a dramatic turn when its director...
Published 26 Apr, 2025 05:21am
It is amazing that on Wednesday last the shopkeepers of the walled city protested against the plans of this new...
Published 13 Apr, 2025 08:22am
One of the most remarkable rulers of Lahore, as also most of the sub-continent, was the Mauryan ruler Ashoka. His...
Published 06 Apr, 2025 05:58am
It was in 1852 that the famous V&A Museum of London opened as a ‘museum of manufactures’. In 1899, the ...
Published 30 Mar, 2025 07:03am
Last week the Lahore Authority for Heritage Revival (LAHR) was set up with the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz leader,...
Published 23 Mar, 2025 06:43am
It was eons ago - 1964 probably - as a school boy I was attending the cricket match in the Government College,...
Published 16 Mar, 2025 07:44am
As one learnt that the very first mosque in the entire sub-continent, let alone the world, was built in the life ...
Published 09 Mar, 2025 06:30am
A question that often arises from our readers is ‘just who was the oldest known ruler of Lahore? Also ever since I...
Published 02 Mar, 2025 07:39am
The Mughal ruler Emperor Akbar is famous for rebuilding Lahore, as also for his ‘wisdom’ as a ruler, amazingly ...
Published 24 Feb, 2025 07:14am
As you walk through Lahore’s old walled city’s Delhi Gate, about 200 yards ahead to the right is a lane turning...
Published 09 Feb, 2025 08:20am
As the philosopher Bertrand Russell said: “A non-believer is one who forsakes the factual history of his ...
Published 02 Feb, 2025 08:22am
In the Mughal period, nearly all the ‘protected’ monuments of Lahore were either in the fort or in the walled...
Published 27 Jan, 2025 06:24am
It is interesting to learn of the large number of slave rulers we have had in Lahore. Slavery as a way of life is...
Published 20 Jan, 2025 06:20am
Both ‘Ichhra’ and ‘Lahore’ formed a few thousand years ago to prevent monsoon floods destroying them — both took their names based on beliefs that prevailed then.
Published 12 Jan, 2025 07:04am
People, places, things and faces … that is what memories are made of. This famous Paul Sagan saying holds true …...
Published 05 Jan, 2025 07:39am
In our college days we loved rowing on the River Ravi and relaxing on the island near Shahdara, and on a hot day...
Published 29 Dec, 2024 07:31am
