Month: January 2015

General (retd) Pervez Musharraf is endearingly candid. In a series of interviews since he relinquished office, he has revealed many ...

India will have to recognize that acquiring state-of-the-art US military technologies comes at a price

Invisible victims and freedom of expression

Pakistan may be back, in substance if not in form, to the old days when the military ran the show

The Supreme Court has struck down military courts in the past, but it has not struck down a constitutional amendment ...

As the military intensifies its operations in the tribal areas, a crackdown against terrorism and extremism has begun all over ...

Political negotiations begin in the province as PTI announces it will run for Senate

Construction site of a clean coal power plant in southern Malaysia

How Delhi police has ruined the lives of many Kashmiri youths

A story of humanity, love, and sacrifice

The issue of Muslims in Europe will pose a huge challenge to the European society in times to come

The Mekaal Hasan Band's third studio album proves that good fusion requires more than a glitzy corporate tag, writes Ally ...

Non-literalists and moderates need to increase in number and reclaim Islam from the fundamentalists, writes Kunwar Khuldune Shahid

At a time when Muslims are increasingly wont to be caricatured, Ajoka's Washington DC performance of 'Amrika Chalo' provided much-needed ...

The closing down of a bookshop afforded Nandini Krishnan much room for anthropological insight

Haroon Janjua reports from Sheikhupura on the woes of a Christian woman for whom justice seems a distant possibility

Peter Oborne's history of Pakistani cricket is a masterful insight into Pakistan as a society, its original vision as a ...

In referencing N M Rashed, clay pots, paper boats, the river Ravi and the lost garment 'Saddri', Pakistani artist Sabah ...

In a largely barren winter for cultural activity, an event celebrating Manto's work was received very well by the people ...

Everyone needs to talk more honestly about Saudi Arabia, says Fayes T Kantawala

A young Caroline Kennedy walks ahead of her father, US President John F Kennedy, who is carrying her rag doll ...

I’m so depress, so depress keh koi hisaab hi nahin. Ever since Suleiman died I tau feel incomplete, as if ...

Omission & commission In his recent interview, Mush has been surprisingly circumspect about his successor Canny and his faults of ...

"Man is the cruelest animal"

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

The TTP and LeJ aren’t the only ones bombing and terrorizing the people of Pakistan. The PMLN government, it seems, ...