The first five copies of the Pakistani edition of How Jinnah Liberated India came out of the press on the afternoon of Monday 19 December 2022. The bulk was received the next day. Pre-orders had started pouring in by this time. The price of the Pakistani edition is Rs.1000, and a special introductory offer of …
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The international edition of How Jinnah Liberated India was uploaded on Amazon on 12 December 2022, and got approved within a couple of days. The following announcement was sent out by the publisher Ms Saleena Karim in her newsletter on 16 December 2022.
International edition Copyright © 2022 Khurram Ali Shafique The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without …
The uncanny similarities between the rule of James II of England and the reign of Imran Khan in Pakistan have already been mentioned in the previous post. What happened next in Britain is now remembered as the Glorious Revolution of 1688. In 1688, the parliament and the army jointly invited the estranged daughter of the …
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One-India fallacy Malignant democracy Mortal Empire, Immortal League Aristocratic radicalism New destinies One-India fallacy ‘…and the so-called one India is only a means of British domination and British rule…’ Jinnah, Cairo, December 19, 1946 The one thing which keeps the British in India is the false idea of a United India, as preached by Gandhi. …
Seminar, 3 March 2016 Some widespread beliefs of our times are being questioned here, such as the notion that we are living in an age of spiritual decline. In this paper it is argued that it was no coincidence that between 1887 and 1946, the Indian Muslim community collectively adopted three successive goals and achieved …
Dawn Images, July 17, 2005. Alexander the Great is the only person to have inspired every single generation for 23 centuries without being a founder of any religion. His is perhaps also the only name to be found among so many different religions and nationalities. Therefore, it seems strange that no great playwright has attempted …
[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][fusion_text] This article was published in Dawn, The Review, sometime in September 2001. Much could be said on the side of Gandhi, which I could not cover in the limited space of …
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Dawn, The Review, sometime in 2001 She lies buried under Taj Mahal. Her name was Arjumand (later Mumtaz Mahal), she was the immortal beloved of Prince Khurram (later Shahjahan), and a daughter of Abul Hasan (later Asaf Khan), a Persian at Jahangir’s court. Historians don’t tell us much about her beyond this. Let’s make an …
This article was originally published in Dawn, The Review, March 15-21, 2001. Since then, I have reconsidered my opinion about how the personality of Emperor Jahangir might have influenced his two grandsons, Dara Shikoh and Aurangzeb. I hope to offer my revised opinion in a separate post in future. I have not changed the text, …