Month: October 2015

Nawaz Sharif’s trip to Washington last week is significant because it comes in the wake of certain important developments in ...

Extremism continues to simmer in northern districts of Sindh

There has been a decline in violence in Balochistan, but the battle against militancy is far from over

Preventive blocking of cellphone services does not make us any safer

Violent extremism has reached the houses of those who are expected to fight it

US-Pakistan relations in changing times

A man who killed his 18-year-old sister for 'honor' will be forgiven

Why Geeta's return to India matters

The economics of religious education in Pakistan

Pakistan's Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty for Mumtaz Qadri - the policeman who murdered former Punjab governor Salman ...

Abdullah Haris started out as a chartered accountant. Then he got a camera. Mariam Saeed Khan has the story

After spending a week in Moscow and St Petersburg Ayesha Shaukat figured out why Vladimir Putin is so smug and ...

Conspiracy theories and the Hindu Right? Ishtiaq Ahmed continues his series on the "unfinished business" of Partition

In the qawwali world, the Saami brothers are as blue-blooded as one can get...

1,400 years after the tragic events of Karbala, how much has the Muslim world, particularly Pakistan, learnt? Tahira Abdullah examines ...

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Fayes T Kantawala mistook the recent earthquake for a viral infection

Abdul Rahman Chughtai is seen with a painting made in his unique style that combined Art Nouveau with the traditions ...

I think so Mulloo’s romance with PTI is khattam. Cracks started appearing when Imran married Reham. She took it even ...

Fall from grace We hear The Man of Steel has expressed his displeasure at the narrow win in Lahore’s famous ...

"Was it prudent on Putin's part to get involved in this affair to begin with?"

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

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is always in the news. Unfortunately, most of it is negative and often without due ...

The only sustainable solution in Afghanistan is to sit down and talk

Decorated with a Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) and a Legion of Merit, recently retired Lt Gen Tariq Khan commanded several operations against ...

An analysis of the recent security situation in the country