Ten years after Iqbal is born in Sialkot in undivided India, a girl named Atiya is born thousands of miles away in Istanbul. Just as Iqbal's father ran a business in Sialkot, Atiya's father Hasan Ali Fyzee (1827–1903) ran a business in that Turkish metropolis.

Nobody will find me walking in this misty field one day, I know;

Wild darkness of rain...

Sarah has not seen Naeema since then. She had heard from her other sons that Naeema is teaching in a school and staying with her mother.

Police yesterday claimed to have arrested four men in the capital's Kalyanpur on Monday night, alleging they were members of a militant group having books

This emptiness does not fill

I have built home in the air

The call to prayer wakes Sarah up every morning. There are at least three mosques surrounding her apartment and each of them take

Police in a raid yesterday arrested manager of a branch of Islami Bank, his wife, mother-in-law and brother-in-law from his Madya Pirer Bagh residence at Mirpur in the capital.

It was pretty late in the evening when my colleague Sayeed Mahdi and I came out of Lahore Gymkhana.

The far more great is One's sense of love It endows hue to nature The green grass looks greener.....

Manic, I run through the woods

The Public Service Commission (PSC) recommended the authorities concerned of the government appoint 196 candidates who appeared at the Bangladesh Civil

My fists open like leaves

Here was a door, above which hung the cherished beauty

Don't hold my hand

Four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare's works still seem inexhaustible as a source of pleasure and a spur to creative

Your nails are long...

I clawed at my throat; my nails digging into my skin. The pressure of my nails was good enough to leave some crescent shaped bruises.

John Keats (1795-1821) and Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), two great idealists...