Month: March 2015

The PTI Election Tribunal (ET) headed by Justice (r) Wajihuddin Ahmed has reported that the PTI intra-party elections held in ...

The global terrorist group is reemerging in Karachi with small hit-and-run attacks

The Rangers have decided to take on the MQM

Terrorists and criminal gangs have developed deep connections in various arms of government

The finality of capital punishment is perhaps the strongest argument against it

As the North Waziristan IDPs get ready to return, how will the government ensure their security?

Sovereignty and suzerainty in Europe and beyond

When her husband, the journalist and lifelong activist Mazhar Ali Khan, died in January 1993, there was a deluge of ...

I cannot remember an editor ever seen off with so much adulation, writes Saeed Naqvi

The simple things and the rite of spring: Momina Aijazuddin Saeed celebrates both during Nowruz in Washington, DC

Warhol in Anarkali? Ally Adnan in conversation with the young Lahore-based painter, Qadir Jhatial

Natasha Shahid examines the notorious underbelly of a city racked by organized crime

Abdul Majeed Abid recounts an old friendship

S. Mubashir Noor asks why Albania has seemingly found a way to reconcile faith and state while maintaining a secular ...

In his review of The Unquiet Ones, Tariq Bashir looks at the heart-lifting, heart-breaking story of Pakistani cricket

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Mohammad Ali Akbar suggests reform in the PCB and the team's backroom staff as Pakistan prepare for life without Misbah

Fayes T Kantawala is mourning the loss of his Wordpress account. Well, kind of…

Ally Adnan reviews Yasir Jaswal’s latest film, but fails to find the magic…

A rare low resolution picture from the 1960s shows the Minar-e-Pakistan in the final stages of its construction. Designed by ...

Who says I can’t have a democratic party with servants in it? Who says I can’t have rigged elections in ...

Touch-me-not It appears that the authorities are finally girding up their loins to arrest that Touch-Me-Not, the Burqa Avenger of ...

Afghan terrorists moved to Karachi for a share of the larger pie

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

Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah has been turning in his grave for decades. All his life Mr Jinnah fought for the ...

The seed of nihilism exists in all of us