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Archive for December, 2011

Surah Rahman (From Higgs Boson to galaxy A1689-zD1)

Posted by Dr. Manzer Durrani in Islam: The Universal Message of Peace on December 15th, 2011

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IMMORTAL VOICES: SHAZIA KHUSHK — LAL MERI PAT RAKHIO BHALA JHOLE LALAN

Posted by Dr. Manzer Durrani in Art & Culture on December 15th, 2011

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IMMORTAL VOICES:Amirbai Karnataki (1906-1965)

Posted by Dr. Manzer Durrani in Art & Culture on December 15th, 2011

Amirbai Karnataki (1906-1965)

Amirbai Karnataki

Amirbai Karnataki

Amirbai Karnataki (born around 1906, died March 3, 1965) was a famous actress/singer and playback singer of the yesteryears and was famous as Kannada Kokila. Mahatma Gandhi was an ardent fan of her song Vaishnav Jaan.

Amirbai Karnataki was born in Bilgi village, District of Bijapur in Karnataka into a lower middle class family. Of all of her five sisters, Amirbai and her elder sister Gauherbai earned fame and fortune. (But according to some sources, Amirbai was elder to Goharbai Karnataki.) Amirbai completed her matriculation and went to Bombay at the age of fifteen. A representative from HMV was so impressed by her singing talent that he made her sing a Qawwali, which became very popular. Her elder sister Gauherbai was an actress and helped Amirbai get a role in the film Vishnu Bhakti in 1934. She worked in many films throughout 1930s and 1940s including Bharat ki Beti (1935), Prem Bandhan (1936), Narsi Bhagat (1940), Darshan (1941), Bharat Milap (1942) etc.

She also gave playback in many films, and with the success of Bombay Talkies

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Covert Drone War CIA drones quit one Pakistan site

Posted by Dr. Manzer Durrani in Foreign Policy on December 15th, 2011

Covert Drone War
CIA drones quit one Pakistan site

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PAKISTAN’S HERITAGE : Khushal Khan Khattak (1613-1689) (Pashto: ?????? ??? ???)

Posted by Dr. Manzer Durrani in Art & Culture on December 15th, 2011

Khushal Khan Khattak (1613-1689) (Pashto: ?????? ??? ???) was a prominent Pashtun poet, warrior, and tribal chief of the Khattak tribe.
[1] He wrote a huge collection of Pashto poems during the Mughal Empire in the 17th century, and admonished Afghans  (Pashtuns or Pakhtuns) to forsake their divisive tendencies and unite against the Mughal army. Promoting Afghan nationalism through poetry, he was a renowned military fighter who became known as the “Afghan Warrior Poet”.
[2] Khushal Khan lived in the foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains in what is now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan.
Early life
Khushal Khan was born in or about 1613 into a Pashtun family of the Khattak tribe. He was the son of Shahbaz Khan from Akora Greater Afghanistan (now in Nowshera District of Kyber-Pakthunkhwa, in Pakistan). His grandfather, Malik Akoray, was the first Khattak to enjoy widespread fame during the reign of the Mughal King Jalal-ud-din Akbar. Akoray moved from Teri (a village in Karak District) to Sarai Akora, the town which Akoray founded and built. Akoray cooperated with the Mughals to safeguard the trunk route and was generously rewarded for his assistance. The Akor Khels, a clan named after Akoray, still hold a prominent position in the Khattak tribe. The Khattak tribe of Khushhal Khan now lives in areas of Karak, Kohat, Nowshera, Peshawar, Mardan and in other parts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Khushhal Khan

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