The writer teaches at the IT University in Lahore. He is the author of ‘A Princely Affair: The Accession and Integration of the Princely States of Pakistan, 1947-55.’ He tweets at @BangashYK.
There must be a robust and transparent process for appointments to top positions in universities for better governance
Universities must radically transform the manner in which heads of institutions are appointed in order to produce world quality research and an...
If higher education is to work, a real rethink of its vision and focus needs to be made
After 1947, the University of the Punjab with all its buildings, libraries, and assets, remained at Lahore in West Punjab and East Punjab had to...
Raising some questions that are not addressed in the present literature on Partition
A hundred years have now passed since the end of the ‘Great War’. It is a day of contemplation and reflection at the cost of war, its bloody...
A glimpse of what Dr and Mrs Benade of FC College, living and working in carnage-stricken Lahore in 1947, observed and felt
A seamless connection to the Wards School at Ambala dates the college to the year 1868, and not 1886
Both Pakistan and India are now in the grips of rising fascism, and unless concerted efforts are made to counter it, it will spread its tentacles so...
Does the box office failure of film Begum Jan exhibit that people in South Asia do not want to see that we perhaps still live in the partition...
