Saturday, January 25, 2025

Necessity of Recompiling Hadiths in the Light of Quran & Sunnah

IntroductionThe famous six Hadith books were compiled after thorough research and scrutiny by the famous scholars about twelve hundred years ago. The four famous...

Special Emphasis on Terrorism (Oct-2022)

Bomb/IED BlastsOne Frontier Corps (FC) personnel was killed and another injured in a bomb blast in Yusufabad area of Khar tehsil (revenue unit) of...

Valika, Fancy and Ispahani

ValikaKamruddin Valibhai of Bombay, the founder of the dynasty that came to be known as the Valikas, had four sons, Fakhruddin Valibhai, Najjamuddin Valibhai,...

Why Not Drop Cash by Helicopters?

My father, Ikram Sehgal, remembers US propeller driven C74 Globemasters landing every 30 minutes or so in 1954 in (then) Dhaka Airport (Tejgaon) bringing...

A Historic Flood Crisis

The year 2022 has brought on the worst flood in the history of Pakistan; it is estimated that a loss of 30 billion Dollars...

Bawany, Colony, Hashwani and Crescent Groups

Bawany GroupBorn in 1882 and 1890 respectively at Jetpur, Kathiawar, Ahmad Karim Ebrahim Bawany and Abdul Latif Ibrahim Bawany founded the Bawany dynasty. Migrating...

The Houses of Habibs, Adamjees and Saigols

Esmail Ali who was from Gujarat in Western India began the Khoja Mithabhai Nathoo Trading Company in 1841. Joining the firm in 1891, his...

DPS- Missing moral compass and negligible learning effectiveness

Natural disasters are notorious for two things – one, unleashing an era of human suffering and two, putting the moral compass and learning effectiveness...

The Ghost of Mahbub ul Haq

A Pakistani economist, international development theorist, and politician Dr Mahbub ul Haq (February 1934 – 16 July 1998) served as the Federal Minister of...

India’s Evolving Deterrent Force Posturing in South Asia

The arms race between India and Pakistan has always remained a gravitational point of South Asian regional politics. The decades-long multileveled hostility between New...