Month: January 2016

COAS General Raheel Sharif is making headlines again. He says he is neither seeking nor will accept any extension in ...

The TTP emir condemned the BKU attack, but his key commander owned it

How can we make schools safe again?

Pakistan's counterterrorism discourse must be anchored in across-the-board rule of law

Has Islamabad put a new face on its diplomatic style?

Will the BKU attack become a stumbling block in the Afghanistan peace process?

The government must satisfy representative political parties from smaller provinces about the benefits of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

In the second phase of their expansion, the Islamic State may focus on Pakistan and Afghanistan

An unelected governor overthrows a state government in India once again

India's capacity to deliver on projects is seriously doubted in Iran

Ishtiaq Ahmed chronicles the process by which artists and professionals of Punjabi birth established themselves in the Indian film industry

Chintan Girish Modi offers snippets of a Mumbai life

As members of a Lahore-based family prepare to move from the city, they set out on a pilgrimage honouring the ...

Asif Aqeel sees job quotas as too little, too late, as a strategy for the uplift of marginalised communities

Moni Mohsin finds the tendency to airbrush history - especially Britain's colonial past - to be most unfortunate

Mohammad Taqi examines Farahnaz Ispahani’s book, which traces Pakistan’s path to becoming an authoritarian, fundamentalist polity

Why are Pakistan finding it tough in New Zealand? K Shahid dissects the team's shortcomings on the tour

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Fayes T Kantawala spent the weekend enjoying New York's magnificent new blizzard

Benazir Bhutto and Nawabzada Nasrullah share a joke in an undated picture likely taken just after the election that brought ...

You may have noticed that I’m sort of taking it easy these days. Too much high-octane living is bad for ...

Houbara Hunters We hear the Office that is Foreign has been taking such an avid interest in the welfare and ...

"Parliamentarians should be allowed to collect a salary while in office, but nothing should be given to them once they're ...

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

The Pathankot attack by Jaish-e-Muhammad jihadis based in Punjab, Pakistan, has pushed Indian and Pakistani leaders to try and salvage ...

Fortified in Bahawalpur, the banned group has made a comeback