Month: October 2013

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and President Barack Obama have their mutual “challenges” cut out for them because they are miles ...

Militants fleeing tribal areas are building new strongholds in the port city

Violence worsens after PTI's unprecedented peace offers to Taliban

The solution to Pakistan's problems lies at home

Bitter Bilawal pays ironic homage to his mother

New anti-terror law raises hopes as well concerns

The problems with our economy are of our own making

Former army chief says New Delhi bribed Sri Nagar's pro-India politicians

Has Congress always been averse to RSS?

The soulfulness of India's greatest tragedienne was born of an abiding love for reading and writing. Raza Rumi reviews a biography ...

Cesare Baccheschi spent two slow days at Lahore's only Women Police Station where a worthy idea is falling prey to ...

A divided India was not a foregone British conclusion. Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed continues his series on the partition

Exasperation is all Zara Khadeeja Majoka could muster for Divakaruni's latest

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid sees nothing mind-boggling in Pakistan's turnaround in the first Test against South Africa

Safieh Shah reviews the first single of Coke Studio's much anticipated sixth season

This well-made film skirts certain grey areas it could have done well to explore. Review by Nandini Krishnan

Ali Sethi tried to make sense of Bilal Lashari's Waar

Fayes T Kantawala subjected himself to Pakistan's highest-grossing film of all time.

A rare photograph taken in 1948 shows Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, meeting political leaders from Balochistan, including ...

Bhai all this Malala tamasha, it’s tau made me so confused, so bemused, so defused that don’t even ask.  Mulloo ...

None the wiser A sharp and ruthless Pakistani-Briton returned to his ancestral village in Jhelum for his wedding and decided ...

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Negotiations are an art

No one can take issue with the findings and recommendations of the latest report of the Human Rights Commission of ...

The two-term army chief leaves amidst confusion

A three-year extension was Gen Kayani's undoing