Tag Archives: Ayub Khan

A Mirror To The Punjabis

Families dream of affording a home in ‘their’ housing societies, students strive to get into ‘their’ educational institutes, patients pray to get admitted into ‘their’ hospitals, farmers struggle to buy ‘their’ fertilizers, couples getting married wish to rent ‘their’ marriage halls; yet the owners of this whole empire fail miserably in the job they get paid for, [...]

From East Pakistan to Bangladesh

A thoughtful insight into the way Bengalis look at the history of Bangladesh. Highly recommended for anyone who would want to know the reasons that resulted in Bangladesh’s independence or fall of Dhaka as Pakistanis remember it.  The people of Bangladesh have always made major decisions through democratic means. In the pre-partition days people of [...]