Majid Sheikh
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
One of the most important issues in our lives, as also to the rest of the world, is that of migration – both inward...
Published 03 Dec, 2023 07:07am
Since time immemorial people, no matter where they live or have lived, celebrate events to remind themselves that...
Published 26 Nov, 2023 07:04am
In the Mughal history of Akbar’s Lahore, there is nothing more mysterious than the missing masterpiece on the...
Published 19 Nov, 2023 07:12am
Over the ages Lahore has been ransacked, looted and the local population massacred several times. Be it from the...
Published 12 Nov, 2023 06:59am
One of the most sought-after questions, and an important one at that, which readers email me about concerns the age...
Published 05 Nov, 2023 06:33am
In the beautiful Lahore Fort’s Shish Mahal quadrangle, the powerful inner circle of the Lahore Darbar of Maharajah...
Published 29 Oct, 2023 07:02am