22 years ago, Rajesh Pilot threatened Sonia Gandhi’s presidency, but his death changed the script. It was the last time Congress voted to elect its boss. Her last challenger, Jitendra Prasada, lost badly. Here’s the story of a contentious election that forever changed the Gandhi-Congress dynamics and has a bearing on the party’s presidential poll even now.
In 1856, when there was no major centre of learning in North India and when education in the region was mostly imparted by religious priests, the Kapurthala Royal family, under the patronage of the British, established the oldest centre of learning in the North — Nawab Jassa Singh Ahluwalia Co
دوسرے امیرِ جماعتِ اسلامی میاں طفیل محمد کی بارہویں برسی
پاکستان میں اسلامی نظامِ حیات کے نفاذ کے خواب کی عملی تعبیر کے لیے جدوجہد کرنے والے جماعتِ اسلامی کے سابق امیر میاں طفیل محمد کی آج بارہویں برسی ہے۔
میاں طفیل محمد ایک نظریاتی سیاستدان اور ذاتی زندگی میں سنجیدہ شخصیت تھے، وہ 1914ء میں ریاست کپور تھلہ میں پیدا ہوئے، گورنمنٹ کالج لاہور سے گریجویشن کے بعد 1935ء میں پنجاب یونیورسٹی سے قانون کی ڈگری لی۔
1944ء میں میاں طفیل محمد جماعتِ اسلامی کے سیکریٹری مقرر ہوئے، وہ جماعتِ اسلامی کے بانی مولانا مودودی رحمۃ اللّٰہ علیہ کے معتمد ساتھیوں میں شامل تھ�
By Shamsul Islam Now it is almost 170 years that people of this country, men, women, children belonging to all religions, regions and strata, rose in revolt, from Kashmir to Madras, and from Sylhet to the borders of Afghanistan. Today if Indians have forgotten about this glorious saga of commitment and sacrifices for the liberation of India can be forgiven in absence of the contemporary narratives.
But what independent India did to obliterate the memories of this Great War immediately after independence on August 15, 1947, when only 90 years had elapsed to this Great War, could only be described as criminal.
It is true that we spent crores of rupees in celebrating the 100th and the 150th anniversaries of the War, but did not bother to revive the common heritage of the joint martyrdoms of this glorious struggle. Earlier, the first education minister of the independent India, Abul Kalam Azad, organized a team of renowned historians to compile the list of pan-Indian martyrs of t