Month: January 2017

The military establishment continues to hog the news, unfortunately for all the wrong reasons. True, it is a central actor ...

The TTP's attack on Parachinar proves the anti-terror plan is not working

Not many are keen to see Gen Raheel lead the 34-nation terror alliance

Pakistan's science education needs to create big brains not kill them off

Supreme Court asks what laws protect child maids like Tayyaba

Hazaras are finding their ID cards are being blocked over citizenship proof

In the first week of 2017, the Lahore High Court gave a landmark decision in a petition after the Federal ...

Domicile certificates for West Pakistan refugees in Kashmir leads to ugly debate

Abdur Rauf Yousafzai reports on the FATA Women Jirga and other activists who are making the case for ending FATA's ...

Not the music genre, but Pakistan's leading telecommunications brand and its Director Marketing, Shahbaz Maqsood Khan

The late Mairaj Muhammad Khan recalls Bhutto's emergence as a populist 'saviour': in his own words, interviewed and transcribed by ...

Zarmina Rafi on the work by Kashmir-born Moonis Ahmad displayed at the Rohtas Gallery

Next-gen and golden oldies are on collision course in 2017's first tennis major. K Shahid reports from Melbourne Park

Shahnaz Aijazuddin on Ajoka's latest, powerful offering

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Pakistan have been comprehensively undone in Australia. K Shahid reports from the WACA and Sydney Cricket Ground

Zara C. Churri can help you understand why a Trumped world is moving backwards instead of forward

It's open season on the First Family of the United States. But Fayes T Kantawala has a soft spot for ...

Ornithologist and eighth Smithsonian Secretary (1964-1984) S. Dillon Ripley (1913-2001) and Mary Livingston Ripley (d. 1996) are pictured here standing ...

Just imagine! Even some senior people in Imran Khan’s party are descending to gaali-galoch. I never thought they could be ...

Orwellian Pakistan In “Animal Farm”, George Orwell writes, “All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others”. ...

"Defaults in payment by state institutions and business houses to PSO are a failure of governance" The Friday Times, Plot ...

A very happy birthday from Multan too… Daily Dunya (26 Dec 2016) reported that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif received birthday ...

Pakistan COAS Gen Qamar Bajwa and Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani have exchanged messages following a spate of vicious Taliban attacks ...

There is a growing realization that acrimonious relations with Afghanistan are not in Pakistan's interest nor sustainable, says Syeda Mamoona ...

Malik Achakzai reports on the dysfunctional local governments in Balochistan