Month: December 2013

According to conventional political wisdom, a newly elected government should take all the hard and unpopular decisions in the first ...

Local polls will heat up politics this winter

TTP's new emir will move his headquarters from Waziristan to his safe stronghold in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

In tradition-bound India, it is inconceivable that the complaint of a lowly domestic servant against a diplomat would be given ...

Community run micro hydropower projects can generate cheap, dependable electricity

Bangladesh's so-called international courts violate global standards of due process

Thanks to the AAP, there is a new kind of thrill in the air in Delhi

After completing her PhD from Kashmir University, Nadia Mehr Din wants other Pakistanis to follow in her footsteps

The Friday Times received a diverse range of answers spanning many different genres in response to the question, 'What was ...

In a deeply personal essay, Natasha Noman recounts her grandfather's struggle against apartheid that ran parallel to Mandela's but was ...

In his latest exhibition in Lahore, Komail Aijazuddin presents a figurative visual biography of us, one that duly explores and ...

Lahore's Old Tollington Market was host to a colourful motley of artware from all over Pakistan. Sonya Rehman made a ...

The most genuinely exciting aspect of this year was that it has ended with us being able to have a ...

As she waited for Dhoom 3 to end, Nandini Krishnan was lulled into a parallel world where she sat down ...

Fayes T Kantawala was moved (and agitated) by the treasures in some of Karachi's best art collections

Imran Khan gives bowling tips to late British actor Peter O’Toole in this undated photograph. The legendary actor was trained ...

My friend Zaheer Riaz, oho baba that hot short lawyer from Isloo only, he called to wish me Marry Christmas. ...

Inner sanctum We hear there was quite a to-do in The Great Khan’s inner sanctum on the matter of the ...

Islam has never been in danger in Pakistan

These nuggets are culled from the Urdu press. They are summarised here without comment. Absurd or ridiculous, tft takes no responsibility ...

Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, the PMLN’s interior minister, has passionately proclaimed his “Muslim identity” above his “Pakistani nationality”. Speaking on ...

Instead of making threats and encouraging capital flight, the government needs to stop cosseting tax defaulters and informal economy

The right fiscal balance and a prudent monetary stance may help avert a looming disaster

Will the government carry out the structural reforms needed to benefit from the new EU trade concession?

Tahirul Qadri is planning street protests this winter, and so is Imran Khan

Karachi operation continues relentlessly, but the prosecution rate is less than 1 percent