Month: May 2016

US drones have taken out Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, the “amir” of the Afghan Taliban, near Nushki in Balochistan province. He ...

Afghan Taliban emir killed in US drone strike on Pakistani soil, with a Pakistani passport

Will rifts in the group affect its policy and Pakistan's influence?

Before the killing of the Taliban emir, there were signs that the US and Afghanistan were losing patience

Pakistan is not happy with its war on terror ally

India signs a $500 million investment deal with Iran

India and Iran face several challenges to increasing mutual cooperation

Cleric withdraws blasphemy allegation in Gujrat after woman asserts innocence and declines to flee

The controversy over Devnagri script may become a battle of cultural identity in Kashmir

We are not good at telling truths, but better at detecting lies

Suljuk Tarar on how Eqbal Ahmad's ambitious project, Khaldunia university, was wrecked by political realities in Pakistan

Chintan Girish Modi shares snippets of a Mumbai life

Noorjehan Bilgrami speaks to Amna R. Ali about immortalising beautiful memories in her new collection of mixed media and printmaking

Ishtiaq Ahmed on a work which highlights a history often overlooked - that of Muslims who questioned Partition

Recent years have seen an upsurge in activism by the transgender community, as well as increased violence against it, Hamid ...

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K Shahid believes Shahid Afridi might have missed his final chance to leave on a relative high

Zara C. Churri grows increasingly disenchanted with the costs of being the one percent

Fayes T Kantawala was reprimanded for wearing shorts in a military cantonment

A bureaucrat poses for the camera in Bukhara, in this photograph taken by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii circa 1910. Since the mid-1800s ...

Last month Janoo got an email from an old friend. An Indian. Woman. Also an Oxen, from Oxford like Janoo. ...

Saying of the week The world’s richest man, and the greatest philanthropist in history, Bill Gates, famously pronounced thus recently: ...

"Most if not all of this money rightfully belongs to ordinary Pakistanis who don't even have access to basic necessities" ...

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

After a month of offensive-defense tactics, the PMLN has finally succeeded in defusing the Panamaleaks bomb. The government is not ...

An electricity line will connect Central Asia and Pakistan by 2018