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Posts Tagged ‘Liaquat Ali Khan’

Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan [1896-1951]

By Mian Usman • Sep 26th, 2009 • Category: Features

Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan, the second son of Nawab Rustam Ali Khan, was born on October 1, 1896, in a Madal Pathan (Nausherwan) family. He graduated in 1918 from M. A. O. College, Aligarh. After his graduation, he was offered a job in the Indian Civil Services, but he rejected the offer on the plea [...]



Tolerance and Patience: Two traits we hardly find in us now.

By Mian Usman • Jul 1st, 2009 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

With an ever changing fast track life style and unstable priorities, its becoming difficult for us to tackle our anger, frustrations, disappointments, grudges and self created distances from others. Our society often reflects and present us a some what non-tolerant and aggressive people by nature. Although their are many contributors to it but the major [...]



Only Three Years …. Please

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Aug 16th, 2008 • Category: Misc


INDEPENDENCE- The Moment of Truth!

By fzuberi • Aug 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

I will start with the line that one of my very old teachers & friend messaged me this morning…
“Sixty-one years ago a nation was searching for a piece of land, today THAT same piece of land is searching for its nation…”
Is this really where we are…. after these past sixty years?
Or is it what is [...]



All What I have

By Asim • Aug 14th, 2008 • Category: Misc

It is all what I have,
My soul and my existence
Imprinted and embedded
In these lines, drawn and felt
In this star and crescent
Long are those trails and hidden
Stories of my ancestors
Some in me and some in graves
In its lap, intoxicated in its slumber
My old remains, my ancestors
Years it takes to build this oasis
Which we all call [...]



Main Bhee Pakistan Hoon, Tu Bhee Pakistan Hay

By Maham Javed • Aug 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

“We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.” These glorious words and many others of our Quaid seems to have fallen in a dark pit [...]



We ruled the world…

By fzuberi • Jun 1st, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

In 1947 Pakistan ceased to be an idea and became a reality, my ancestors died but they worked, my mothers and fathers bleed but they migrated to this land of the Pure.
In 1992; my people, my fellow countrymen saw a change a change that made them proud, a change that made them feel on top [...]