Historically, Uyghurs who are ethnically of Turkic descent have been living in and around the northwestern region of the modern-day China for over two millennia, during which time, the region has gone through five phases in the following time periods: from 300 BC to 630, the per-imperial phase; from 630 to 840, the imperial phase, […]
Dual Citizenship: Violation of the Oath
Recently, in Pakistan, a dual citizenship concern or issue has become a hot-button topic of conversations or discussions in the electronic/TV or print news media and been covered in op-ed write-ups. There are those who defend dual citizenship as a personal preference for traveling more easily and hassle-free to a native country and/or as a […]
The Islamist Iqbal
Just to hear Urdu (which I, as a societally/culturally integrated Pakistani-American, miss hearing in the US, sometimes), I was watching an infotainment program of a Pakistani TV channel on YouTube. A Sufi singer, who was a guest on the program, recited (in Urdu) passionately a couplet of an Iqbal’s poem from his poetic work, “Bal-e-Jibrael.” […]