Month: November 2013

Discretionary practice rather than the seniority principle has prevailed in Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s appointment of General Raheel Sharif, third ...

Baloch protesters walk from Quetta to Karachi demanding the return of their missing relatives

Journalists and activists show solidarity with Baloch protesters

Why does Imran Khan appear eager to see his provincial government toppled?

How long will the world put up with our irrational behavior?

To overcome ethnic discord, the TTP unites against Shias

Pakistan may have lost its ace of spades in Afghanistan

People of the Kurram Agency capital are peace-loving Pakistanis, not 'violent outsiders'

In trying to push the federation into action on drone strikes, the PTI may have painted itself into a corner

Green energy is not as costly as it is made out to be

A concrete wall on Kashmir border will concretize conflict

Amnesty International’s recent publication, “Will I be Next? US Drone Strikes in Pakistan” has spurred a global debate on the ...

The controversial television anchor and model talks to Shehryar R about love, item numbers and her big break in Bollywood

Chintan Girish Modi, an educator and researcher from Mumbai recalls some lighthearted moments from his recent visit to Pakistan

Zara Khadeeja Majoka questions Ramachandra Guha's partisan view of history even as she enjoys the more personally reflective half of ...

What can you do to make sure you and your children eat well? Zainab Mahmood-Ahmad explores

In this week's installment Dua Abbas Rizvi dabs her eyes gazing at a magnificent Da Vinci and explains why Caravaggio's ...

Fehmida Riaz's conversation with a friend - a recent Shia convert - led her to ruminate about a different time ...

For certain young Pakistanis Coke Studio has opened up routes to the closed fortress of our musical past, writes Safieh ...

This week Nandini Krishnan ended up watching two Bollywood films, one slightly more entertaining than the other

Fayes T Kantawala on the Tarun Tejpal Affair, what it says about India, and what that in turn says about ...

Pakistan prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto with Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi after a meeting in India in 1972 in ...

I’m going on a drone shikar, with a few trusted lieutenants, my pointers Punch and Judy and my Tulip & ...

“Ponds” not rupees The staff of Lahore’s Governor’s House is reported to be ecstatic with the new guy’s arrival. They ...

It is time we put our own house in order

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