| Author: |
Khaled Ahmed |
| Publisher: |
Vanguard |
Facts about great men we don't want to know.
Description:
Did you know that after the Quaid's demise, Fatima Jinnah and prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan
submitted an affidavit at the court saying that he was a Shia?
Did you know that Allama lqbal was opposed
to the imposition of hudood punishments, that Ghalib did receive a stipend from the British
for two villages of his inheritance to his dying day and that he changed his takhallus back
to Asad during his 18-month stay in Calcutta?
Did you know that Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar defended
the Ahmedis in Afghanistan and that his elder brother Gauhar was an Ahmedi, that Borlaug
saved Pakistan from famine by inventing a new wheat seed in 1968, that Ganga Ram was actually
the true father of Lahore building most of the landmark structures of the city?
Did you know that
Ghulam Ahmad Parwez greatly resented the August 11 speech of his beloved leader the Quaid
because he thought non-Muslims could not be equal citizens in Pakistan, that the son of
the great essaywriter Patras married the daughter of another great essay-writer Falakpaima,
that the great translator of the Quran Abdullah Yusuf Ali was found dead in an obscure
clinic in London, that Annemarrie Schimmel was actually a scholar in Turkish, that the
paper on which Daud Rehbar was rejected in Pakistan in 1953 actually contained nothing
offensive?
Did you know that K.K. Aziz was reading the Hamoodur Rehman Commission's preparatory works
when his house was raided by General Zia, that the Quaid's mausoleum was contracted to
an Indian architect Yahya Merchant on false pretences through a manipulation of Miss
Fatima Jinnah, that Kemal Attaturk kept Khalida
Adeeb Khanum's children as hostages after exiling her to Paris?
Did you know that Osama bin Laden and Mulla Umar first met at the Banuri
mosque in Karachi, that Pakistan's first President, Iskander Mirza, was the last scion of Mir Jafar
the traitor who allegedly betrayed Siraj al-Daula of Bengal to the East India Company,
that more important Pakistanis were married to foreigners than you had imagined, and
that far too many of the key personalities in Pakistan's history hailed from a small
district of Punjab, Jullundher?
| DesiStore # |
PBH01009 |
| ISBN # |
969-402-353-X |
| Edition |
First |
| Year |
2001 |
| Pages |
303 |
| Weight (kg) |
0.49 |
| Shipping Weight (lbs) |
1.24 |
| HB/PB |
Hard Back |
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Khaled Ahmed is Consulting Editor at The Friday Times which he joined in 1993.
Earlier, he edited The Frontier Post and was Joint Editor The Nation. He was in
the Pakistan Foreign Service from 1969 to 1978 and served in Moscow and Prague.
As a journalist, he participated in track-two diplomacy with India and was a
founder-member of the Neemrana Dialogue.
Pakistan: Behind the Ideological Mask
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