Month: October 2014

The MQM and PTI are facing a strategic identity crisis. The MQM has concluded that the politics of “national mutahidaism” ...

Akbar S. Ahmed talks to Raza Rumi about the perception of Islam and Muslims in the West

Suicide attacks on Maulana Fazlur Rehman indicate a growing ideological divide between his party and Taliban

Responsible for over 90% of global polio cases in 2014, Pakistan needs transformative action to eliminate polio

Pakistan is a classic example of strategic confusion, poor branding, and bureaucratic failure

The BJP is pushing the Muslim majority of the state to the wall

In the devastation that would follow a nuclear exchange, no one will care to count which side has suffered more

The Syrian enclave of Kobane is a metaphor for the Turkish president's woes

After his earlier article on the life of Meena Kumari, Raza Rumi explores the iconic actor's prowess in an entirely ...

Nandini Krishnan was flown to Paris for a literature festival and writing workshop, where she hobnobbed with the writing elite ...

Gardens new and old, literal and metaphorical, were the subject of a refreshingly diverse and serene exhibition at Chawkundi Art ...

Avid reader and one of Urdu's greatest contemporary novelists, but mostly 'chacha ji' to a generation of nostalgic Pakistanis, Mustansar ...

In the early 1980s a group of well-connected Pakistani men dreamt of a 'revolution' much more hard core than the ...

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid lays the case against the untouchable law

Did Altaf Hussain just publish a book on love? By Fayes T Kantawala

Students work in a Chemistry laboratory at Forman Christian College in this photograph taken in 1929. Prof Arthur Compton, who ...

At the last dharna, I decided, instead of raving and ranting about Nawaz Sharif, to just sit and chat with ...

No can do  We hear Friar TuQ got one last message from the powers-that-be before he abandoned the “revolution”, packed ...

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

"This is not the first time Edhi has been harassed"

Bilawal Bhutto has been “launched”.  The Karachi jalsa was big and his speech was animated. He unfurled the liberal flag ...

Pakistan's national narrative has been hijacked first by the military and later by fundamentalists

The grandiloquent launch of Bilawal's political career felt lukewarm, uninspired and underwhelming

Bilawal may be wary of the veterans of his party

Ties between the PPP and the MQM are not likely to get better soon

Non-tariff barriers are poisoning trade in the region