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Within the shadows of the Great Game played out by the British and Russian Empires in the late...
Within the shadows of the Great Game played out by the British and Russian Empires in the late...
One of the lesser known but decidedly at the apex of the administrative machinery of British India was...
The evidence of constructing stone and masonry bridges dates back two-and-a-half millenniums. In 500 BCE, a Chinese engineer...
On the way to Peshawar along the Grand Trunk Road if you take a left after crossing the...
I was introduced to the Frontier Mail while gathering information on the operations of the British Indian Army...
My father, Maj Gen Syed Shahid Hamid was one of the first Muslim officers on the faculty of...
The desk in my study and the letter rack that rests on it belong to my late father,...
Many would recognize the name of Sahabzada Yaqub Khan – general and foreign minister, but they would not...
There were a large number of Pathan Riasaten (kingdoms) in the Indian Subcontinent but only 21 survived the...
If we were to describe Dr. Khalifa Abdul Hakim in one word, we would say that he was...
In 1947, my mother Tahirah, and her eldest sister, Amina were the only two members of their family...
During the revolt of 1857, the ‘Movable Columns’ that marched to Delhi consisted largely of irregular units comprising...
The 6th Battalion of the Punjab Regiment is one of the oldest units of the Pakistan Army.
During the Second World War the Indian Princely states provided 250,000 men for service in Malaya, Burma, North...
During my tenure in Bahawalpur in the mid-1990s, I frequently visited the desert forts in Cholistan of which...
In an auction in 1980, the British National Army Museum paid a high price for a collection of...
Sometime back, I chanced upon a painting in the archives of the National Army Museum in UK with...
In 1953, my late father Major General Syed Shahid Hamid visited 7th Frontier Force Battalion (Coke’s Rifle) on...
Meer Jaffir’s ten years of service under Ferris came to an end in 1849 and on 24 May...
A few years ago I was presented a book by Syed Shahid Ali containing over 230 pages of...