The idea of creating a separate state for the Muslims of the Indian sub-continent was conceived and promoted by the poet and philosopher, Dr. Mohammed Iqbal in 1930 and was incorporated in the programme of the Muslim League in 1940 through the famous Lahore resolution of the 23rd March. Pakistan came into being as an independent sovereign state on August 14, 1947, made up of areas where the majority of population professed Islam and which were situated in the ...
In September 1924 violent Hindu-Muslim riots took place in the small town of Kohat in the NWF province of the old undivided India where unimaginable atrocities were committed on either community. The above event took place nearly seventy years ago and since then much water has flown below the bridge both in the Indus and the Ganges and the History of this sub-continent has witnessed violent upheavals. One hoped that with the creation of Pakistan, the rabid ...
The New Cambridge history of India published in 1993 records, “Hemu, a Hindu Vaisya or a member of a literate, mercantile caste, who had risen from humble circumstances to be a general for the Surregime, claimed royal status by employing the ancient Sanskrit title of Raja Vikramaditya. Had he succeeded this would have been a remarkable assertion of the Sanskritic/Brahamanical monarchical tradition in North India long subservient to Muslim rulersâ€. The career ...