Inception: DJ Science College was founded by Lord Dufferin, who was the Viceroy of occupied India. It was opened in a bungalow situated on Bunder road by Lord Reay, the Governor of Bombay on January 17, with the name Sindh Arts College. At that time the number of students was just 28 and only 5 staff members were employed. The ...Read More »
Introduction: COMSATS stands for Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South. It is an international organization. The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) proposed for the foundation of COMSATS under the patronage of Nobel Laureate Dr. Abdus Salam. At the time of the establishment of the COMSATS in 1994, a conference was conducted on 4th and 5th October. ...Read More »
Jauna Khan/Alagh Khan/Fakhr Malik ascended the throne in 1325 AD in Tughlaqabad as Sultan Mohammad Shah Tughlaq after the death of his father who was crushed under the newly-built palace in Afghanpura. After the forty days of the burial of Sultan Tughlaq, Mohammad Shah, the eldest child of Sultan Tuglaq rejoiced his coronation in Delhi and started his regime which ...Read More »
Razia Sultan carried the legacy of his great father and ascended the throne in 1236 AD but was surrounded by conspirators from the very beginning of her rule. When she was garlanded with the title of Sultan, she observed “parda” (veil) but later she had to abandon it and she started heading military expeditions with a bare face riding elephants ...Read More »
Being ugly and unsightly from his appearance, Ghias-ud-Din Balban proved to be one of the most stringent and inflexible ruler in the history of Indo-Pakistan whose tenure introduced the policy of blood and iron to crush the upheavals of the adversaries. After ascending the throne, Balban put three main targets before him which were: Removal of the rival Turk chiefs ...Read More »
The history of slaughter goes on and Ali Gurshap Khan (commonly known as Ala-ud-Din Khilji) colored his hands with the blood streaming out of the neck of his guardian, uncle, and father-in-law making it the last echelon to position himself as the next Sultan in1296 AD. The callousness of time and power takes the toll of another skull and leaves ...Read More »
One of the biggest credits of Ala-ud-Din Khilji was the economic reforms which emancipated the masses from the hoarders and inflation and which were imitated by the rulers of the world. He fixed the prices of the commodities all over the empire and set up a strict supervision system to insure the availability of goods at equal prices. Thus, curtailing ...Read More »
Ala-ud-Din Khilji inherited an economically down trodden empire surrounded by the upheavals of Hindu and Rajputs of India while the Mongols were posing a consistent threat to his rule. It required the restructuring of the economy to uplift the conditions of the people and the state. Therefore, Sultan enacted economic reforms and a precise system of revenue all over the ...Read More »
Sultan Ala-ud-Din Khilji died of Oedema in 1316 AD (according to some historians, he was poisoned by Malik Kafoor) leaving an empire which was safe and sound from the external perils and internal conflicts because of his stern and relentless policies. Being found of Alexander the Great ll, he overwhelmed the north and south of the India and executed the ...Read More »
Reportedly, a son of the slave of Ghias-ud-Din Balban, Ghazi Malik (Sultan Ghias-ud-Din Tughlaq) came to power after eliminating the Khilji Dynasty by killing Khusrau Shah, the last weak ruler of Khiljis who hastened a plain sailing for Tughlaq. His father had married a woman of Jat clan and Ghias-ud-Din was born. According to Ibn Batoota, the word Tughlaq came ...Read More »
