The movement for a new Siraiki province has gained momentum. No party aiming to get the votes of South Punjab can afford to oppose it. Will the new province be on the basis of language? If that ...

Wishing away Siraiki ethnicity is embedded in the very choice of nomenclature of the new province ‘South Punjab’. What lies in the nomenclature of a province? In the early twentieth century, renowned ...

IF Delhi, Faridabad, Noida, Lucknow and other major cities in the Hindi heartland of India were siblings living in a great country house in Victorian England, surely Delhi would be the eldest male ...

These days, many statements by supporters of the Bahawalpur province and Hazara are making headlines. The ruling PPP is said to be studying the proposition and, at least in the case of the Bahawalpur ...

LAHORE, June 18: The Pakistan People’s Party has offered its ‘full support’ to the Muslim League-Nawaz if the party goes ahead with creation of two new provinces in Punjab as it had earlier declared. ...

Our family never migrated from India during the 1947 Partition. However, I heard from my parents that there was a reasonable population of Siraiki speakers who migrated to India in 1947. This sounded ...

Shaukat Mughal — a Siraiki intellectual and well-established writer — passed away a few weeks ago at the age of 72. He had done a Master in Urdu degree from Multan. He was born and brought up in ...