More than a thousand years ago, a small group, including women and children, fearing bloodshed in the sanctified city of Makkah, began an arduous journey to Kufa – more a city of deception than a ...

Every significant event ever unfolded on the face of the earth is temporal in a sense that it occurs in a particular time-space setting, and at the same time, eternal, because of its sheer ability to ...

The Jashn-e-Bahar Trust recently organised Dastan-e-Marsiya: Karbala se Kashi tak, an evening dedicated to Marsiya. Marsiya is a poetic form that commemorates the martyrdom and courage of Hazrat Imam ...

How appropriate is this verse to Pakistan’s prevailing situation? When Prof Iqbal Shahid recited it in his usual style, I was forced to admire his extraordinary taste in poetry. The ability to recall ...

Karbala is an event that carries no parallels and transcends beyond time and space. There have been several incidents where people have lost lives and families have been destroyed. However, Karbala is ...

There is history and then there is the memory of history. While history is preserved in annals, its memory comes down to generations through the interplay of culture, traditions and oral accounts.

More than a thousand years ago, a small group, including women and children, fearing bloodshed in the sanctified city of Makkah began an arduous journey to Kufa, more a city of deception than a mirage ...

The uprising and martyrdom of Imam Hussain (as), the beloved grandson of Prophet Mohammad (pbuh), in 61 hijri (680 AD) arguably has no parallel in the annals of history. To invoke poet Sir Mohammad ...