Month: July 2014

There is an overwhelming consensus in the country that significant electoral reforms are needed to improve the quality of the ...

Displaced residents of Waziristan say the Taliban ruined their society

It is not easy to say who wants to help the IDPs and who wants prime time coverage

As the Waziristan conflict goes on, mismanagement has began rearing its ugly head, cross-cutting across a wide range of parameters

The army, the federal government and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government should devise a centralized coordination and distribution mechanism for the ...

The link between the Gaza crisis, Iran talks, and the Islamists

Given Pakistan's political history, will the hammer fall on Musharraf?

In the south of France, in a world-famous restaurant frequented by Picasso and Jean Cocteau, Moni Mohsin made the acquaintance ...

Sending out Eid cards to friends and family members was never a simple exercise for me. It required a series ...

An inquisitive young man from the north of Pakistan, Muhammad Asif Nawaz, was bursting with curiosity about the enigmatically-named Haveli ...

The arguments used by Israelis - "moderates" as well as extreme right-wingers - for attacking Hamas are ironic at best, says ...

A tribal elder thanked Maheen Ghani Taseer when she brought food and shelter for his people in the IDP camp ...

People come to book readings for all sorts of strange reasons, says Nandini Krishnan

Fayes T Kantawala saw the Metropolitan Museum of Art's conservatively curated Islamic Gallery in New York

A rare photograph of Karachi's Civil Hospital taken around 1910, a little more than a decade after it was founded ...

Tall, quick-witted, stern but also affectionate, evoking respect from family, peers, friends and those whom he commanded, our late father ...

Just between you, me and the four walls, I think so someone has done kala jadoo on Malaysian Airways. First ...

Silence of the grave The philosophy that seems to be guiding the actions of the Invisible Soldiers Inc in its ...

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The only cure for a weak democracy is more democracy

Khawaja Saad Rafique has all but announced a U-turn in PMLN policy on General ® Pervez Musharraf’s fate. He says ...

If the Taliban come to power in Afghanistan, they will provide 'strategic depth' to their Pakistani comrades

As Pakistan goes after Taliban, they may respond by hitting where it hurts

The interior minister is not going anywhere in the foreseeable future

The 'caliphate' is opposed to Shia 'apostasy', and, eventually to Sunni monarchies

Pakistani state and citizenry have not been able to conceptualize the meaning and purpose of free speech in democracy