Month: August 2016

“Jamaat-ul-Ahrar is striving for global jihad,” the splinter group of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan proclaimed in 2014. Two years later, by ...

Altaf Hussain is incorrigible. He has got into the obnoxious habit of abusing and threatening anyone who dares cross him. ...

Few people have studied Karachi from the vantage point that Omar Shahid Hamid has. He served the city as a ...

What caused Altaf Hussain to crack, leading the MQM to 'disown' him 

Extortion calls from across the border have squeezed local businesses

Dr Nida Kirmani is an associate professor of Sociology at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. She has written on ...

The marginalization of the MQM chief may change Karachi's politics 

Since key elections are near, Kashmir and Pakistan can wait

New Delhi has made the security apparatus the only visible symbol of the state

In remembering a beloved relative, Parvez Mahmood ended up telling the story of his family - of survival under colonialism, ...

Chintan Girish Modi shares snippets of a Mumbai life

Nimra Khan introduces us to the work of two artists who approach their world, quite literally, from above

Raza Naeem feels Mohenjo Daro is a well-intentioned epic, but its politics is fairly suspect

In India, as in Pakistan, the preservation of precious heritage sites remains a challenge. Syed Amir focuses on the Taj ...

Garga Chatterjee sees deliberate policy in the discrimination against Indians who don't speak Hindi

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K Shahid pays tribute to the world's top-ranked Test side

This autumn, you ignore Zara C. Churri's definitive guide at your own peril

Fayes T Kantawala condemned the French burkini ban in a most impassioned manner. It concluded rather unexpectedly

Pakistani High Commissioner Gen M Yousuf receives Indian High Commissioner Mme Vijayalakshmi Pandit at the door of 53 Avenue Road, ...

I wanted to write reams and reams in self-praise today but my advisors have asked me to shorten my diary ...

Stuck Our former rep to Uncle Sam, the one who was conspired against and laid low via Memogate, has suffered ...

"The flawed Khoji is now being manufactured and sold by none other than our own Airport Security Force" The Friday ...

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

The game is on! True to form, the politicians are trying to undo each other while the military establishment smacks ...

Killing of ex-TTP Orakzai chief who joined ISIL in Afghanistan opens doors to mergers