Month: November 2014

The 18th SAARC Summit in Kathmandu has ended with a whimper. All the leaders spoke passionately about the necessity of ...

Pakistan's new Afghan policy is working

JI's ex-emir Munawar Hassan makes headlines yet again

Imran Khan gestures at his rally in Larkana

BJP causes a stir as Article 370 dominates the election campaign in Indian Kashmir

The Sindh government is in a state of denial

It is simplistic, repetitious and intellectually crude, and therefore popular

Can the Owaisi brothers give their politics a non-sectarian twist?

Interviewing people whose memories are scattered across both sides of the Indo-Pak border, Aanchal Malhotra was alerted to the ways ...

The concept of the Khilafat is a pipedream unsupported by historical facts, writes Abdul Majeed Abid

Raza Rumi met the wife of slain Minister Shahbaz Bhatti and discovered tales of woe, marginalisation and hope

Asad Ejaz Butt reviews a book strongly critical of the work of renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs

Parents in Pakistan often have a hard time getting allergies diagnosed and treated. Zainab Mahmood-Ahmad provides a handy guide

With a hilarious anecdote Syed Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari captures the irrepressible spirit of freedom that flourished at the end of ...

The happiest thing about the latest Saif Ali Khan starrer was indeed its end, writes J K Wali

Great artists are made by the societies that remember them, argues Fayes T Kantawala

Madhubala plays Anarkali in Mughal-e-Azam, a historical epic tragedy about a love affair between a Mughal prince and a courtesan. ...

Last week my Indian friend Nisha Sharma – very khaata peeta with flat in Bombay, house in Goya and apartment ...

Sacred & profane The provision of education is a sacred trust; corrupting it is profanity. Sadly, in the Land of ...

"Pakistan's rich should start paying taxes, and stop burdening the taxpayers of donor countries"

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

India’s Congress Party is in soul-searching mode after its unprecedented loss to the BJP in the last elections. Its favoured ...

Pakistan's climb back up the slope to a viable state and nation is getting more difficult every day

With a microphone, a stage and a group of followers, Imran Khan can make allegations against anyone

Or is it ISIL?

Bangladesh's diplomatic missions in Pakistan are under threat