Month: December 2016

Asif Zardari has returned to Pakistan after 18 months in self-imposed exile following a military crackdown on the PPP in ...

Prescriptions include getting to know Trump and being more neighbourly

Religious parties force Sindh Assembly to take back forced conversion bill

Politics in India and Pakistan will not allow peace overtures to be made in the near future

Exports are down, imports up and the govt needs to work on a consistent regulatory policy

Thar's locals are unhappy with plans for a reservoir to store coal mining effluent

Suljuk Mustansar Tarar on a Pakistani master of the landscape, Khalid Iqbal

Rizwan Ali examines global trends in designing more inclusive cities and how Pakistan has lagged behind

What can we learn about the BJP administration's view of federalism and diversity from new bank-notes? Garga Chatterjee explores the ...

Samina Choonara on the work of abstract artist Unver Shafi Khan, well-known for his Fabulist style

Sonya Rehman tells the story of Ghulam Dastgir, his one chance and what he did with it

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K Shahid looks to the third Test against Australia and beyond

Lars von Trier in Lahore? Zara C. Churri is on to it already!

Fayes T Kantawala has compiled a Facebook-style list of the year's many calamities

In this series, ‘The people of India’ photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress were put together of the races and tribes ...

I began 2016’s last core committee meeting, resolved to come to important decisions on which we could do U-Turns later, ...

“Where to, Guv?” Ever wondered what became of an erstwhile Guv of the Punjab, who jumped ship from The Brothers Sharifov and ...

"Muslims ruled over the Subcontinent for a thousand years, did many good things, but never tried to influence the local ...

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

Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court (SC) has damned the “law enforcement agencies” in general and the federal ...

Chintan Girish Modi shares snippets of a Mumbai life

In a remarkable first, the Quetta Commission report delivers a strong indictment of the state's performance and security establishment

How black money turns white in Pakistan

Asylum-seeking suspects fuel fears against Muslims and migrants

Christians can only divorce if there has been adultery, unless section 7 is brought back