Rescue 1122 announces code red across Punjab

According to a spokeswoman for the Punjab Emergency Service, Rescue 1122 declared code red across Punjab on Monday. “Special arrangements will be made across Punjab on the directives of the Rescue 1122 director general,” stated a representative for the organization. “Code Red is for continuous rescue assistance to the public as well as Muharram gatherings […]

Were Imran Khan ancestor’s present at Round Table Conference of 1930?

The former prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, shared a picture yesterday on his Twitter handle showing his grandfather’s brother, Zaman khan & uncle Jahangir Khan sitting alongside Allama Iqbal & Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the historic 1930 round table conference. The picture is going viral for obvious reasons but some things need to […]

Karbala and Today’s Testing Times

Karbala and today’s testing times

Childhood days on Ashura were spent intensely mourning the heart-wrenching devastation of the Prophet’s grandson and his family of seventy-two at Karbala. Yearly reiteration of the tragedy throughout the ten days of Ashura, attending women’s majalis in the afternoon, listening to my father’s rendition of the iconic Mir Anees’s marsias and the post-Isha hours were spent mostly in […]