SUCH is the weight of colonial and post-colonial erasure that the girls and women living in Pakistan today have very little idea about the very early feminists who have come before them...
Given that India and Pakistan and Bangladesh are all patriarchal societies, it follows that the histories of these lands that have been resuscitated from the past, and presented to populations that do not have much of an idea of the past, have been...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani high school student Noman Afzal knows “traitorous” Hindus are to blame for the bloodshed that erupted when British India split into two nations 70 years ago...
Students across the border in India are taught a starkly different version of events, the result of a decades-long effort by the nuclear-armed rivals to shape and control history to their own nationalistic narrative...
KARACHI: Picking up from where she left off six years ago Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar said when she finished working on her book, The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories, she didn’t want to work on anything related to Partition...
“Writing about Partition had been an emotionally draining project but as it happens, it’s such a huge experience that I think this region has still a long...
BERLIN: Gurinder Chadha, the woman behind Bend It Like Beckham, demands British “accountability” for the humanitarian disaster triggered by the Indian subcontinent’s partition, in her new all-star drama Sunday at the Berlin film festival...
He and his wife (Gillian Anderson) are portrayed as well-meaning if naive puppets of London at the start of the Cold War, as Mountbatten agrees to the carve up the subcontinent between...
The Foreign Office (FO) on Wednesday condemned the Indian government’s “mischievous move” of observing “Partition Horrors Remembrance Day” on August 14 — Pakistan’s day of independence...
“If the Indian leaders genuinely care about agony, suffering, and pain, they must work to improve the conditions of the Muslims and other minorities in India,” it said...
When India and Pakistan were forged out of Partition 75 years ago, the split also created one of sport’s greatest rivalries...
So strong is the rivalry between the countries that they can’t even share the date of the partition which gave them independence, with Pakistan celebrating it on August 14 and India a day later...
Dominated by Hindu traders and businessmen before Partition, who formed the backbone of economic activity in the city, Shahalam market became witness to one of the worst riots at the time of Partition...
Up next: How different are we from the partition generation?In the years to come, Lahore managed to rise from the ashes of Partition...
Pakistan on Saturday called out Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for "distorting history" after he announced that August 14 — Pakistan's Independence Day — will be observed as "Partition Horrors Remembrance Day" in India...
As Pakistan celebrated its 75th day of independence, the Indian prime minister took to Twitter to make the controversial announcement...
Pakistan on Saturday strongly condemned the statement of Hindu nationalist group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat's statement — in which he said "the only solution to the pain of Partition lies in undoing it" — terming it "delusional thinking and historical revisionism"...
According to a report by The Indian Express, the RSS issued a statement on Thursday quoting Bhagwat as saying that the India of 2021 was not...
The Pakistan High Commission in India on Friday issued a visa to an Indian senior citizen, allowing him to meet his family members in Pakistan, with whom he was separated 74 years ago due to Partition in 1947...
“Today, Pakistan High Commission issues visa to Sika Khan to visit his brother, Mohammed Siddique, and other family members in Pakistan,” the embassy announced on Twitter...
Take a look: Stranded in India during the 1965 war: How I won friends among ‘enemies’Coincidentally one of the two feature films to impress the members of the jury is an Armenian movie, whose title is Border...
Quite reminiscent of the Radcliffe Award, the boundary line drawn between India and Pakistan, the movie shows how an international boundary is drawn inconsiderately and thoughtlessly between two villages in the former Soviet...
Complainants of a pre-Partition property inheritance case celebrated its 99th anniversary on Thursday by cutting a cake in the compound of the Supreme Court (SC), DawnNews reported...
A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar heard the case...
The festival -- ‘Revisiting 70 years of Partition’ -- had a lot to offer in terms of the Ajoka plays that jelled with the theme...
Before the inaugural play that was based on life and works of great short story writer of the Subcontinent, Saadat Hassant Manto, the moving spirit behind Ajoka, Madeeha Gauhar, addressing the audience said that history written on the Partition needed to be revisited...
Perhaps the earliest fictional treatment of Partition by a Bangladeshi writer was the short story ‘The Escape’ written in English by Syed Waliullah (1922-1971) and included in the Pakistan PEN Miscellany (1950)...
The locale is unspecified but can be taken to be North India, though it could be on either side of the newly drawn border, and the action takes place on a train, an iconic emblem of hope and horror in that region...
These houses with spacious rooms, carved wooden doors and beautiful masonry were left behind by their owners in the partition of India in 1947...
They came in the possession of the Muslim migrants who arrived here from India...