Alishba Shaikh

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Pre-partition: explained

Pakistan is today, an independent and happy* country, where no one is prohibited to practice their religion and everyone here is genial, gracious and sociable and almost everyone here knows what their nation's history is; but do you know how brutal, cruel as well as captivating and compelling its history is? In this article, we will cover a very detailed history of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, or basically "The Subcontinent". Although the subcontinent's history dates back to thousands of years ago, I will just start from a quarter of its history and for instance, 1498; this year is when for the first time the Europeans came here, in the subcontinent for trading purposes. Firstly, in 1498, there came a Portuguese explorer named "Vasco da Gama", who was the first Portuguese as well as the first European to enter this land. He reached here successfully with the help of "Ibn Majid", an Arab sailor. Ibn Majid helped Vasco da Gama through his journey fr...

The Dark History Of Mount Rushmore

Mount Rushmore, which is in today's world, a quite famous monument; has an untold dark history. It is a mountain in the black hills region of South Dakota carved into the faces of the four presidents of America: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Mount Rushmore got its name from a New York attorney, Charles Rushmore when he visited the mount but before it was named "Mount Rushmore" the Lakota people called it "The Six Grandfather's mountain". The Lakota are Native American people who lived there for years, that is why it was owned by them but their access to this Land came to a threat when "White Americans" expanded their territory by physical violation which led to a war between them and between 1866 and 1868, the Lakota allies successfully defeated the U.S military and got their Land back. In 1963, Treaty at fort Laramie mentioned that the Black Hills and other areas belonged to the Sioux nation* but in ...

A Vanishing Family

Long ago, in Spain, there was a village packed with extremely religious people, who used to believe literally every superstition that rose. They used to hate every kind of music except their religious hymns and their women wore long clothes, covering even their faces! one day there came a man together with his family from an urbanized city. The man was just 40 and his name was Brian and he was an astrophysicist in a space agency. His wife was a professor in a well-known university and lastly their twin children, Lucas, and maria. Brian was actually the grandson of that village's one of the most respected families. They had a huge mansion there, when Brian learned about this he became curious to explore that mansion, therefore he came here, with his family to also have a vacation there. When they reached the center of the village, everyone started to stare at them as they were new and different from them. Literally, everyone was staring at them except their family's servant and ...

PAKISTAN'S EDUCATION SYSTEM

Education is a must for a happy life and a successful career; but it's only achieved by a good system, a system where a student's actual performance matters not his/her grades, where a child is taught skills that the world need, not the silly facts that billions of people already know! but the thing is that a good education system doesn't exist in at least this world. the world is not working on it so is Pakistan. N o Teaching Quality in this developing modern world, teaching is considered a crucial profession. Teachers are given special training to enter this field. Unfortunately in Pakistan, most of the teachers are the people who couldn't be successful with their actual field and didn't know what to do with their degrees! Limited Fields There are thousands of fields in the world that are highly respected. Students can choose to enroll in whatever field they are interested in but in Pakistan...

Is UN a failure?

UNITED NATIONS The United Nations Organization also known as UN is an international organization initiated on 24th of October in 1945, comprising of 51 countries during it's inception and 193 countries today. Those 51 countries claimed to bring peace and friendly relations among all the nations, because the world was at war and millions of lives were being lost. However, the UN did actually oil the wheels but at some point, it threw in the towel and stepped back. Here we will mention some of the stories of UN that include it in the good books as well as the bad books of people around the world. Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Palestinians have been fighting the Jewish state, Israel, ever sine it's independence. Approximately 15000 Palestinians were killed and 750000 were forced to take refuge. Almost 90% of old Palestine is now in the hands of Israel. However, the United Nations" 138 out of 198 countries (which is 7...

The tomb of king Tutankhamen

The tomb of king tutankhamen During the thousands of years that have past since the pharaohs were buried in their tombs, treasure hunters and thieves have snuck into the tombs and taken nearly all of the treasure. However, in 1922 one tomb was discovered that was mostly untouched and was filled with treasure. It was the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Where is King Tut's tomb? The tomb is in the valley of kings near Luxor, Egypt. This was where the Pharaohs and powerful nobles were buried for around 500 years during the history of Ancient Egypt. Who found the tomb? By 1914 many archeologists believed that all of the Pharaoh's tombs in the Valley of the Kings had been found. However, one archeologist named Howard Carter didn't agree. He thought that the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun was still undiscovered. Carter searched the Valley of the Kings for five years finding little. The man funding his search, Lord Carnarvon,...