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Create Your Own Position

By Rai Azlan • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: Features

9th November was the day when the thinker of nation Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal, 132 years ago, born. Many things have been written so far, and for now when I am writing this many things must have been said. This year, as always, I was in quest of an answer that is IQBALISM still alive [...]



Iqbal Ka Shaheen

By M Mirza • May 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


ALLAMA IQBAL (Poet of East) and present situation

By Asad Ghauri • Apr 23rd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Asalam Alaikum,
Today is 71st Death Anniversary of  ALLAMA IQBAL, a person whose thinking is still a land mark to follow for muslims. let see some interesting poety of ALLAMA MUHAMMAD IQBAL which fits to present situation.
“Dunya ko hay phir Muarka e Rooh wo Badan Paish
Tehzeeb nay phir apnay darindo ko ubhara
ALLAH ko pamardi-e-Momin pa bharosa
iblees [...]



Renewal of the Pakistani Oath; the Red-Letter Day!

By Maham Javed • Mar 23rd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

“The Hindus and Muslims belong to two different religious philosophies, social customs and literature. They neither intermarry nor inter-dine together, and indeed they belong to two different civilizations which are based mainly on conflicting ideas and conceptions.”
Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the man of honor, the man of our dreams who brought this country and this nation [...]



Quaid-e-Azam, M.A.Jinnah: A Man for All Seasons

By Asim • Dec 25th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

To achieve your own dreams it takes a lifetime but to achieve the dream of millions, it’s a feat only a few can perform in the history of mankind. And Jinnah was one of them. And to achieve that one has to rise above the fear and display courage. The ability and skills which he [...]



Only Three Years …. Please

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Aug 16th, 2008 • Category: Misc


INDEPENDENCE- The Moment of Truth!

By fzuberi • Aug 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

I will start with the line that one of my very old teachers & friend messaged me this morning…
“Sixty-one years ago a nation was searching for a piece of land, today THAT same piece of land is searching for its nation…”
Is this really where we are…. after these past sixty years?
Or is it what is [...]



All What I have

By Asim • Aug 14th, 2008 • Category: Misc

It is all what I have,
My soul and my existence
Imprinted and embedded
In these lines, drawn and felt
In this star and crescent
Long are those trails and hidden
Stories of my ancestors
Some in me and some in graves
In its lap, intoxicated in its slumber
My old remains, my ancestors
Years it takes to build this oasis
Which we all call [...]



Main Bhee Pakistan Hoon, Tu Bhee Pakistan Hay

By Maham Javed • Aug 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

“We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.” These glorious words and many others of our Quaid seems to have fallen in a dark pit [...]



A Journey Through Modern Philosophy: Introduction

By Awais Aftab • Jul 13th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

Dear reader, i invite you on a journey through the lands of modern philosophy, whose borders stretch from the fifteenth century to the present days. Let us allow ourselves to be enchanted by its beauty and lure. During this odyssey we shall meet the great philosophers of this realm. Each of these philosophers will have [...]