Month: October 2016

There is no justice or “insaf” in Pakistan. That is why citizens clutched desperately at the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. There is ...

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi resurfaces with a new name and even deadlier effect

Pakistan's politicians and government need to see through the smokescreen of terrorist acts

Third quarter data shows upsurge in violence, civilian/LEA casualties are up, militant casualties are down

Altaf Hussain has dealt a masterstroke by creating a new Rabita Committee to beat the factions that have emerged

Altaf Hussain works technology to reach out to and win over confused party workers amid crackdown

The party's new left-leaning Rabita Committee is squeaky clean but will its leaders be able to wrest back power?

PTI's plan to lock down Islamabad is the ultimate pre-election gamble

Centuries ago, a persecuted group in the Muslim world adopted irregular warfare. Natasha Shahid examines whether this was a precedent ...

Amit Ranjan examines a new scholarly intervention into the study of Mughal India and its linguistic politics

Zehra Hamdani Mirza explains why the Karachi Biennale Trust's latest creative project makes you all warm and fuzzy on the ...

Aftab Ahmad takes us to the bewitching, aptly-named Shaitangoot lake

Rehana Hyder pays tribute to the Pakistani military's oldest army officer, Brig. Mahmud Jan, who passed away this month

Farzana Rasheed pays tribute to the capital city of Liberia, where she has lived and worked since her 20s.

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Pakistan should look to clean-sweep the West Indies and rewrite record books, writes K Shahid

Zara C. Churri is appalled by how Pakistan makes light of mental health issues

Why does Fayes T Kantawala speak such good English? 

Zeb-un-Nissa Hamidullah née Ali was one of South Asia’s first women journalists. She was born to a literary family in ...

Look at that Christine Lagarde, Wicked Witch of The West. What gives her the right to give Nawaz Sharif’s government ...

Sublime to ridiculous Depending on how you look at it, the forthcoming siege of Isloo is either a sublime or ...

"Irrespective of who caused it, SAARC is quite dead" The Friday Times, Plot No 52-53, N-Block, Main Guru Mangat Road, ...

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

Is some sort of radical “change” in the air? Imran Khan is touring the Punjab, whipping up anti-Nawaz sentiment and ...

Premier Nawaz Sharif is likely to want to choose a 'friendly' army chief given our civil-military history

Pushing a revision of family laws is part of the BJP's pro-Hindutva anti-Muslim electoral strategy in UP