Fakir
Syed
Aijazuddin
Columnists
Guest Columnist Fakir Aijazuddin, author of Sikh Portraits in the Lahore Fort and Sikh & Pahari Miniature Paintings, is Principal of Aitchison College and lives in Lahore.
Khushwant Singh's Last Train to Pakistan FAKIR SYED AIJAZUDDIN
“In memory of Sardar Khushwant Singh / A Sikh, a scholar and a son of Hadali (Punjab).”
The Resourceful Fakirs: Three Muslim Brothers at the Sikh Court of Lahore:
Part II FAKIR SYED AIJAZUDDIN
Azizuddin's weapons: the force of argument, the power of persuasion, the weight of wisdom.
The Resourceful Fakirs:
Three Muslim Brothers at the Sikh Court of Lahore
Part I FAKIR SYED AIJAZUDDIN
The Punjab being the middle ground between empires always belonged to one or the other, never to itself.
Young Minds, Old Hatreds by F.S. AIJAZUDDIN
It would have concentrated their minds wonderfully, knowing that they could be annihilated in a fortnight.
LETTER FROM LAHORE
The Business of War by F.S. AIJAZUDDIN
How else do the Dick Cheneys of this world live if their friends in dark corners do not make landmines and rockets?
LETTER FROM LAHORE
Break Bread, Not Bones by F.S. AIJAZUDDIN
Could there be some sunburned Dr. Strangelove holed up in some office in New Delhi ... or Islamabad?
LETTER FROM LAHORE:
If The Shoe Fits ... by F.S. AIJAZUDDIN
Did Bush really believe that millions of Iraqis would feel grateful that in place of Saddam Hussein and his iron-brained militia, they now have the steel frame of 150,000 U.S. troops underwriting their fledgling democracy?
LETTER FROM LAHORE
Concentric Circles of Dread by F.S. AIJAZUDDIN
Patriots on both sides of the border know that they, too, are being held hostage, as surely as the victims in the Taj and the Oberoi were, by terrorists whose perverted dogma knows no theology except nihilism and hate.