Month: April 2016

The Panamaleaks story is not about to die down. Several new developments are in the offing that will keep the ...

Amid allegations and counter-allegations, Afghan peace negotiations are in jeopardy 

Seeing no chance of winning in the battlefield, Taliban have resorted to suicide attacks and assassinations

Counterterrorism Department deals major blow to Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent 

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's popular minority rights activist killed in Buner

Panama Papers are a symptom of a greater malaise

India and Pakistan stick to their guns in a meeting between their foreign secretaries in Delhi

The discriminatory tradition of barring women from entering Hindu temples must stop

Is Mamata Banerjee losing?

Raza Naeem reflects on the legacy of progressive intellectual Sibte Hassan on the thirtieth anniversary of his passing

Chintan Girish Modi offers snippets of a Mumbai life

SZ reviews Mein Sitara, a TV series which takes us into the world of those who shine brightly on the ...

K. Babar examines a collection of writings by C.M. Naim which delve into the construction of Muslim-ness

Adil F. Pasha shares his experience of Khaplu, Baltistan - a region as yet untouched by sectarian strife

Garga Chatterjee explores the links between Bangladesh cricket and Bangladeshi nationalism

Shehzad Ghias is outraged by the latest liberal-extremist conspiracies against the good Pakistani Muslim man

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The ongoing Pakistan Cup has posed new questions instead of giving us answers, writes K Shahid

Zara C. Churri brings us the latest dispatches from behind the lines of Lahore's 'haves'

Fayes T Kantawala loved the animated new version of Rudyard Kipling's 'The Jungle Book'

Prior to 1971, there was a renaissance of cultural activity at the Pakistani High Commission in Delhi, centering around many ...

May the Almighty lift Mossack Fonseca – Ya Allah iss Mossack Fonseca ko utha lay! May Allah destroy all these ...

Poker-faced Observers say The Man of Steel is usually poker-faced and does not easily give away what he’s thinking. But ...

"It is expected of individuals and groups to ensure that the freedom of expression is not misconstrued to serve their ...

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

General Raheel Sharif has grabbed the headlines yet again. He says that: (1) “the war against terrorism and extremism being ...