Animal Folklore | The Gharial | Lore from the Indus Valley

Animal Folklore | The Pangolin | The Lore of Azad Kashmir | Wild Legends of Pakistan by WWF

The shared history of Pakistan and Azerbaijan.

The history and culture of the veil in pictures.

Parts of Pakistan were a part of the Ilkhanate from 1256 to 1335. Who were the Khans of the Ilkhanate?

Commemorating Ashura at the Mughal Court

A history of typography and printing for languages which use the Abjad Writing System - Arabic, Persian and Urdu.

This is the story of how the Hijri Calendar came around.

Gilgiti Folklore | Solar and Lunar Eclipses.

The history of Nastaliq typography - a script notoriously complex to adapt for fonts and typefaces.

The History and Evolution of Urdu as a Language, and an analysis of contemporary debates around it.

Notes on the Zeenatnama | Volume 1 | Sindh | The Borrindo, a wind instrument from the Indus plains.

A brief history of the Nastaliq Script, also known as al-Khatt al-Farsi.

Many believe that not many words use the letter ( ژ ), but they do! We don't often use them in colloquial Urdu.

Folkloristan x Khoswakt | The Folklore of Gilgit Baltistan | A crow humbles a king.

It’s always the small anecdotes which often remind us that our heroes, too, like Jinnah, were human.

A visual journey exploring how ethnic Pakistani attire reflects shared heritage with neighbouring cultures and the styles carried along old trade routes.

A lesser-known chapter in 18th-century history is the Afsharid Empire, ruled by the Kurdish Emirs, encompassing modern-day Iran, and parts of modern-day Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan.

Khilafat-e-Isakhelistan, a micro-nation in Pakistan.

Urdu Fable | The Boy Who Fibbed