Month: January 2014

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met COAS General Raheel Sharif on Tuesday, January 28, to cement the government’s resolve to finally ...

What is happening in Pakistan cannot be simplified as an Islamic movement, Akbar S. Ahmed says in the second part ...

Without a willingness to review strategic blunders of the past, Pakistan's future remains fraught with pitfalls

The war against Taliban is our own war

Closer to Al Qaeda than to Afghan Taliban, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan is a formidable challenge for Islamabad

Dr Asim Yousafzai is a Washington-based geopolitical analyst who has worked in the south and central Asian regions for the ...

Muhammad Moiz A very strong, mob-oriented, authoritarian force has started to unfurl its wings

Prof Ijaz Khan concludes his analysis of the violence in the tribal areas and the state's failure to resolve it

Why do Pakistani musicians have their eyes and ears closed to the scourge of terrorism? Nadeem F. Paracha trains his ...

Young artist Julius John's installation art spoke to Dua Abbas Rizvi about class conflict, religious persecution and every situation that ...

Shanghai is nothing like the Western media's portrayal of China, discovered Yasser Latif Hamdani on a recent trip to the ...

Mohsin Sidiqui enjoyed the intensely realized The Scatter Here Is Too Great but the whirligig of novellas that comprise the ...

Asif Akhtar traces the history of the Zamzama, that enduring symbol of Lahore's central importance to all who tried to ...

In the popular Pakistani imagination Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was a traitor of the state. On the 26th anniversary of ...

A film about the horror-porn industry of the 80s raises some pertinent questions about exploitation, cynicism and betrayal in the ...

Fayes T Kantawala on the games people play

Tribesmen perform the Khattak Dance in a photograph taken circa 1890. Khattak dance is an agile martial variation of the ...

I can’t thank the good lord enough for the following blessings that he has bestowed upon me: 1. Getting so ...

Who calls the shots During one of Karachi’s worst spates of ethnic violence, senior police officials and khakis went from ...

Cyber warfare Sir, Back in 2001, when I was in Germany’s prestigious Tubingen University, I met a large number of ...

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

To act or not to act against the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, that is the question. It has finally dawned upon the ...

A spate of assassinations in and around Quetta may be connected

In the first part of an essay about his recent trip to Pakistan, Akbar S. Ahmed describes the country's security ...

In the second part of his analysis of violence in the tribal areas, Prof Ijaz Khan speaks about the disconnect ...

The state's tepid response to a renewed terrorist onslaught is a recipe for disaster