Month: May 2014

Ustads Amanat Ali Khan and Fateh Ali Khan were born in Sham Chaurasi in Hoshiarpur in Punjab. They were trained ...

Abida Parveen is a folk singer from Sindh and one of the pioneers of Sufi music. She has also sung ...

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s trip to New Delhi has provoked the usual war mongers to ask some prickly questions. Why ...

Economic progress in India and Pakistan depends on mutual trade and energy cooperation

Will speaking to Modi strain civil-military ties in Pakistan?

One area Modi and Sharif can safely engage with each other is trade and commerce

After a year of short-term measures, the finance minister will have to make some tough decisions for long term reform

Although Islamabad and New Delhi are cautious, the Nawaz-Modi meeting has not failed

The world's second largest Muslim population faces a predicament

The fascinating tale of Maharaja Daleep Singh who relinquished the Koh-i-Noor to become the most prominent fixture in Queen Victoria's ...

For its 30th anniversary Abbas Hussain revisits the legacy of the group that redefined theatre in Pakistan

Nandini Krishnan dreams of a world where the children have no namea

Mir Nasar Ahmad has finally submitted to the idea that a return to Pakistan is a foolish dream

M S Gill, former Chief Election Commissioner of India and a member of the Rajiah Sabah experienced much that was ...

Incitement to violence has become a valid leisure activity, writes Tazeen Javed

Irfan Javed excerpts several anecdotes from Kishwar Naheed's latest non-fiction book

If there were a globally sanctioned blasphemy law to guard religious sensitivities, it would be the Muslim world that would ...

Fayes T Kantawala had a taxing run-in with the authorities

Newscasters Zubairuddin and Nasreen Pervaiz read the 9pm news bulletin Khabarnama at the Karachi studios of Pakistan Television Corporation in ...

This week, meray aziz humwatno, I am going to write about the ironing of history. Look at! Dekho zara! Under ...

Twist of fate  In a twist of fate, the former chief adjudicator has made an application before Isloo’s highest official ...

Private militias collect more funds through extortion than the taxes collected by the government 

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

The onslaught of the military establishment on GEO for over-stepping the red line by airing Hamid Mir’s allegation against the ...

Is India still the land of Gandhi, Nehru and Azad?

Pakistan must embed its dialogue with India in modern realpolitik