Department of History, University of Karachi

23/01/2026

Under the partnership, AKU and other agencies of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) will provide strategic, technical, and advisory support to the upgradation of the National Museum of Pakistan. The project will bring also together the history faculty of AKU’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, historians at AKU’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations in London, and AKU’s Department of Archives in a focused scholarly collaboration.

26/12/2025

28/11/2025

Researchers may have finally cracked why the Indus Valley civilisation collapsed

18/11/2025

As we celebrate the International Day of Islamic Art on 18 November, we're taking a moment to look back at our own journey with Islamic art. Since 1994/95, we've been working on one of the first international digital initiatives fully dedicated to this field, long before online museums became the norm. Through our Discover Islamic Art platform, we brought together objects, monuments and stories from across the Islamic world and made them accessible in one place so people everywhere could explore, compare and learn.

Over the years, we continued expanding with new online exhibitions, galleries and books that highlight the depth and diversity of Islamic heritage. Everything we've done has been driven by the same idea: making Islamic art visible, connected and easy for anyone to access.

This week, and especially on 18 November, our posts will focus on Islamic art and the many ways it shapes history, culture and daily life.

Today we're shining a light on the work we've done over the decades and the role it continues to play in presenting Islamic art to a global audience.

18/11/2025

Hiroshi Yoshida (Japanese, 1876-1950). Japanese shin-hang woodblock print titled "Kailasa Temple - Ellora" depicting a Kailasha, also known as Kailashanatha, temple, the largest of the rock-cut Hindu temples at the Ellora Caves near Sambhaji Nagar in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India, 1931. Jizuri seal along the left margin. Pencil signed and titled along the lower right; titled along the lower left margin; marked with Yoshida's seal in plate along the lower right; inscribed in Japanese along the left margin and further inscribed in English along the lower margin. The jizuri "self-printed" seal indicates that the printing process was directly supervised by him and that he played an active role in the creation of this print. These seals were typically reserved for only the highest quality impressions as decided by Yoshida.

One of the leading figures in the Japanese Shin-hanga movement, Hiroshi Yoshida was born in Fukuoka in 1876. In 1893, he moved to Kyoto and studied yoga and nihonga styles of painting and watercolors. It came only in middle age he started collaborating with the shin-hanga publisher Watanabe Shozaburo. Despite his late debut as a shin-hanga printmaker, he successfully put himself on the map as the greatest artist of the shin-hanga style and is especially noted for his excellent landscape prints. His prints are highly recognized in both Japan and overseas.

Height: 15 3/4 in x width: 11 in.

15/11/2025

28/10/2025

University of Peshawar has decided to close nine departments over low admission rate in the respective Bachelor of Studies (BS) programmes from the current semester, fall 2025.

The BS programmes to be closed include development studies, geography, geology, history, social anthropology, statistics, logistics and supply chain analytics, human development and family studies and home economics, according to official documents.

Only one student had applied for admission in BS human development and family studies, two each in BS development studies, BS logistics and supply chain analytics and BS home economics, three each in BS geography and BS history, five in BS social anthropology, seven in BS statics and 14 in BS geology.

Read more: https://www.dawn.com/news/1951412/peshawar-university-shuts-nine-departments-over-low-enrolment

02/07/2025

01/07/2025

The author of "Political Conflict in Pakistan", Dr. Mohammad Waseem, finally comes on The Pakistan Experience for an explosive podcast on the history of Pakistan and the rise of Hindutva.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgaOpBDbQ5Q

On this deep dive podcast, we discuss history being rewritten in India and Pakistan, the Hindu-Muslim conflict, Partition, 1947, Savarkar, community formation, Jinnah, Muslim League, the Migrant Elite and MQM.

21/06/2025