By Sabrina Toppa from ALJAZEERA Nankana Sahib, Pakistan - If Balwant Singh, a 73-year-old retired teacher from India, had the option seven decades ago, he would never have left Pakistan. When British India was partitioned in 1947 to create two new nations - India and Pakistan, Singh fled with his family from their ancestral home in the Punjab state that became part of Pakistan. Now, Singh's only way to visit the birthp ...
By ProPakistani Co-created in 2017 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Citi Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Citibank N.A., the Youth Co:Lab initiative aims to establish a common agenda for countries in the Asia-Pacific region to empower and invest in youth, in order to accelerate the implementation of the SDGs through leadership, entrepreneurship and social innovation. With Pakistan being a key region ...
By Yudhvir Rana in Times of India Young researcher urge Sikhs to explore layers of Sikh history in Pakistan A young Muslim researcher from Pakistan has suggested Sikh devotees visiting Pakistan to not limit themselves to Gurdwara's only but to explore the layers and layers of Sikh history.Twenty-six-year-old researcher, Jahandad Khan who hails from Hazara, a region in the North-Eastern part of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan w ...
By Indian Newslink: Washington DC, January 18, 2018 A young Pakistani Researcher has extolled the teachings of Sikh legend Hari Singh Nalwa, saying that the world has a lot to learn from him. Jahandad Khan a 26-year-old Researcher was speaking at the Guru Gobind Singh Foundation in Washington DC. He is a native of Hazara, a region in the North-Eastern part of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, located east of the Indus ...
When water at Tarbela recedes, Bharukot Fort emerges to reveal an eventful history spanning centuries Published by Jahandad Khan in Dawn The waters of the world’s largest earthfill dam recede each winter, leaving behind a rich tapestry of historical forts, battlefields, shrines and villages that tug at the curiosity of wanderers like myself. Prior to the damming of the Indus at Tarbela in the 1970s, the now largely submerged T ...
Published in SikhNet on May 29, 2019 by Indus Heritage Club founder Jahandad Khan The most enduring landmark of Sardar Hari Singh Nalwa's legacy in Pakistan is the country's western border with Afghanistan, which also once represented the furthest limits of the Sikh empire. However, it was in the Hazara region in today's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that Nalwa spent the bulk of his time on the frontier. Although local history sources contain a ...
Photographer: Mazhar Nazir/Bloomberg By Chris Kay from Bloomberg Annual tourist arrivals have more than tripled since 2013Military campaign has boosted safety, infrastructure improved After a bone-jarring mountain journey, Alan Cameron surveys the snow-capped peaks of Pakistan’s north near the Saiful Maluk lake. “It’s beautiful -- well worth the effort,” said the 34-year-old Canadian holidaying in a country better known for terrorism ...
PESHAWAR: Sikh yatrees on their visit to the Peshawar Museum on Friday were teary eyed as they looked upon portraits that reminded them of their glorious past and historic connections with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “We consider this land as sacred as Saudi Arabia is for Muslims. I am very happy to be here,” said Navdeep, a pleasant young lady of Indian-origin from California during her first visit to Peshawar. She said that she had got a 15-day visa ...
by Inderjeet Singh from SikhNet.com Introduction One community at the peripheral of Sikh religion is Sindhis Hindus (or Nanakpanthis) in Pakistan. Very little information is available in the public domain especially around their relationship with Sikh religion. At the most, we know that some Sindhis are Sehajdhari (literal meaning slow adopters) Sikhs. What does this statement entail? Are all Sindhi Hindus in Pakistan, Se ...
